Beyond the Pride Month Syllabus
Three resources to help you create safe spaces for queer students.
Want to build a discussion skills program?
Destination: Discussion
Information & Inspiration
from real teachers, real students & real research
Using Peers for Scaffolding
What do peer-generated questions accomplish in the learning process… and what are their limitations?
Beyond the Syllabus: Editing, Revising, Growing
Three new (and old) calls to embrace, invigorate, and develop reflective practice.
Protagonists: 20 Minutes with Linda Rodriguez
“I always want for the kids in my classes to feel like that: heard, seen, and known.”
Office Hours: 30 Minutes with Danitra Blue
“Teaching the skill of having conversations about identity is different than teaching the skill of how to apply a math formula to the real world. You can’t apply formulas to an identity. We, as educators, have to be comfortable with fumbling through conversations and not having all the answers and having to model what it’s like when you say the wrong thing or learn something.”
Protagonists: 20 minutes with Julia Maxey
“Every once in a while, I wander and look in other people’s classes: I’d like to see what people are doing in other disciplines. How do they handle their lessons? How are they arranging their desks and table? I just ask.”
Office Hours: Interview with Jared Colley and Stephen Hebert
“There’s no way that we can guarantee that a discussion is equitable. What we can work toward is finding as many ways to get student voices into it as possible.”
Beyond the Syllabus: Exploring Audiobooks in Earnest
What if audiobooks could lead students to more creative reading and better listening?
Office Hours: Interview with Meghan Cureton
“We think about “oh, the purpose of this class is to be English class,” but there needs to be a clear purpose for each specific gathering. You get to choose what that template looks like. The structures that go with it should fuel that purpose.”
Office Hours: Interview with Jini Rae Sparkman
“There’s a creative force within schools, but to move forward, we need a community-centered approach that draws everyone in to make change. In order for that to happen, something has to drastically disrupt the current system. Possibility and liberation has to become the imperative over maintaining systems.”
