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Protagonists: 20 minutes with Arianna Vailas
Read More: Protagonists: 20 minutes with Arianna VailasThe Protagonists series highlights the main characters of our mission: the teachers out there hustling to make their students feel known, heard, and challenged through student-led discussion. Hometown…
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Protagonists: 20 minutes with Cally Queally
Read More: Protagonists: 20 minutes with Cally Queally“I’ve kept that with me as a teacher: I want my students to feel like I believe in them and trust them, that every challenge I give them…
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Office Hours with Mary Finn
Read More: 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.”
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Protagonists: 20 Minutes with Callie Hammond
Read More: 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…
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Protagonists: 20 Minutes with Amethyst King
Read More: 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…
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Remember Computer Labs? Today’s kids need Conversation Labs.
Read More: 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…
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Office Hours: 30 Minutes with Alexis Wiggins
Read More: 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…
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Co-Creating Courses with Students? It’s possible.
Read More: 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.
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Protagonists: 20 Minutes with Chris White
Read More: Protagonists: 20 Minutes with Chris White“We don’t “team teach” but we’re on each other’s team, if that makes sense.”
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Protagonists: 20 minutes with Will Rehrig
Read More: 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,…