Office Hours with Mary Finn
“Education can be really performative, even when it’s called ‘authentic’… one thing I like about Premise is that there’s no need to perform.”
Protagonists: 20 Minutes with Callie Hammond
“My middle schoolers are ready for more – more leadership, more say, more experiences – but we often don’t let them do more. There’s so much that educators can do to enhance education in middle school.”
Protagonists: 20 Minutes with Amethyst King
“I’ve learned a lot about respecting [students’] boundaries and finding ways for students to contribute that aren’t verbal, but I do still believe that being able to articulate your thinking is an important life skill.”
Remember Computer Labs? Today’s kids need Conversation Labs.
Today’s students may not need computer labs, but they do need the opposite. What if schools had spaces dedicated to teaching digital natives how to talk – and actually listen – to each other?
Office Hours: 30 Minutes with Alexis Wiggins
“When I considered my values or goals for discussion, I realized that my goal wasn’t to have kids speak more, but to encourage them to ask questions, to reference the text more often, to be unafraid to say they’ve rethought and want to follow up with a question.”
Co-Creating Courses with Students? It’s possible.
A study of Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges inspires us to imagine co-creating curriculum with our students.
Protagonists: 20 Minutes with Chris White
“We don’t “team teach” but we’re on each other’s team, if that makes sense.”
Protagonists: 20 minutes with Will Rehrig
“In Chemistry, anytime you can get students to do chemistry themselves, it’s like magic, and then when they’re explaining and they realize they can understand why it’s happening, it leads to really great insight. I really do think of it like magic. They’ve seen the wizard behind the curtain.”
Office Hours: 30 minutes with Jamie Piltch
“It’s not enough to say ‘don’t do this’; we need to help give students identity and meaning apart from status, and I think teaching about citizenship and civic engagement is a phenomenal way to do that.”
Beyond the Pride Month Syllabus
Three resources to help you create safe spaces for queer students.
