https://padlet.com/boysenp1/t9jteoz0eqaz Changing the world...one student at a time en-us 2019-04-01 14:53:36 UTC 2025-11-19 11:03:27 UTC hello@padlet.com boysenp1 https://padlet.com/boysenp1/t9jteoz0eqaz/wish/347212718 Using questioning strategies to make students think at a more complex level]]> 2019-04-01 14:55:09 UTC https://padlet.com/boysenp1/t9jteoz0eqaz/wish/347212718 boysenp1 https://padlet.com/boysenp1/t9jteoz0eqaz/wish/347213274 TED talk by Rita Pierson]]> 2019-04-01 14:56:06 UTC https://padlet.com/boysenp1/t9jteoz0eqaz/wish/347213274 boysenp1 https://padlet.com/boysenp1/t9jteoz0eqaz/wish/347214012 "Leadership for social justice investigates and poses solutions for issues that generate and reproduce societal inequities" (Leadership, Ch 2). No matter what the subject area is that we teach, there are opportunities to bring in teaching moments where students gain awareness of the world around them and about opportunities to make that world better. When I see education as a way to help students change the world, then I do a better job teaching math, science, history, English and shop, because I look at the trajectory of the whole student and society, not just my own subject area. Instead, my subject area becomes one tool that my students can use to make the world a better place.]]> 2019-04-01 14:57:11 UTC https://padlet.com/boysenp1/t9jteoz0eqaz/wish/347214012 boysenp1 https://padlet.com/boysenp1/t9jteoz0eqaz/wish/347215773 "Notions of promise, liberation, hope, empowerment, activism, risk, social justice, courage, or revolution do not automatically evoke images of educational leaders in charge of schools and systems, working within the dominant political and bureaucratic frameworks of the 21st century" (Shields 559). Oftentimes, educational leaders can confine themselves to matters that keep their schools and their own names out of the newspaper, simply checking the right boxes to keep funding flowing in and their own jobs intact. It is vital for the teacher and the educational leader to advocate for students, to bring transformation to schools in ways that make teaching and learning more effective and that make schools ideally suited for the needs of their students and for the needs of society.]]> 2019-04-01 15:00:02 UTC https://padlet.com/boysenp1/t9jteoz0eqaz/wish/347215773 boysenp1 https://padlet.com/boysenp1/t9jteoz0eqaz/wish/347228675 Giroux argued that "Whether in schools or in other spheres, public intellectuals must struggle to create the conditions that enable students and others to become cultural producers who can rewrite their own experiences and perceptions by engaging with various texts, ideological positions and theories" (263, in Leadership Ch 2). In other words, education is not simply about inculcating facts in the minds of students and then hoping that they will go regurgitate those facts on a test. Instead, education is about empowering students to go out into the world and make society better than what they find it.]]> 2019-04-01 15:21:34 UTC https://padlet.com/boysenp1/t9jteoz0eqaz/wish/347228675