Coming soon to the What @SchoolCouldBe Podcast, Brendan McCarthy PhD: Parsons School of Design, Director of BFA Fashion Design: Systems & Materiality, New York: East-West Center: Harvard: and UH graduate student in progressive education. Dude knows #whatschoolcouldbe for sure.
I am speaking at PEN 2022: Transformative Education: Disruption, Innovation, and Regeneration in our Learning Communities. Please check out my talk if you're attending the event! #SEAPEN2022#PEN2022 - via #Whova event app
Our kindest thoughts to the students, educators and community of Uvalde, TX, at this time of another school shooting in the U.S. Please share these resources to support our young people across the country in this moment.
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Progressive Education in Action: Ending Period Poverty for the Next Generation of Learners hanahauoli.org/pdc-blogposts…
Mahalo Dr. Amber Makaiau for the awesome editing & publishing my piece in the @ProgressiveEdHI blog with @HanahauoliSch
Monday is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. As we head into that celebration and all year long, we encourage you to uplift contemporary Indigenous cultures, teach Indigenous histories, and incorporate resources written by and about Indigenous peoples.
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Art has always been integral to and intertwined with activism and movements for justice. And from history to ELA, introducing art in the classroom can bring those stories to life. Consider this free webinar on utilizing art to teach about justice.
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Please join us for our 3rd webinar of this series, "Lessons in Liberation: Abolition in our PreK-12 Classrooms," happening Tuesday, September 28, at 4:00-5:30 PM PST / 6:00-7:30 PM CST / 7:00-8:30 PM EST. To receive a livestream link, please register at LessonsInLiberationEducators…
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Given current challenges, lessons learned at Hull-House are relevant & important! Read: The Significance of Jane Addams’ Progressive Education Legacy in the COVID-19 Era: Schools as Sites for Community Inquiry & Innovative Social Programming bit.ly/3kdoYfI
Fabulous session at Kevin Kumashiro’s 11th Conference on Education & Justice by @jingwoan_chang & Amber Makaiau about building all-gender bathrooms in a private school. Kinder & 1st grade kids embraced & presented!
How can we move this forward at public schools? #808Educate
Making Hawai‘i proud at the 11th International Conference on Education & Justice: @MiliLaff Supporting Menstruators in Our K-12 Spaces & @jingwoan_chang Making the Move to All-Gender Bathrooms. Hoʻomaikaʻi! #leadersofsocialjusticeineducationbit.ly/2Xvnvcd
Excited to partner with @jingwoan_chang at the 11th International Conference on Education & Justice! Sharing Hanahau’oli School’s move all-gender bathrooms, using collective action, curriculum, & physical space to address gender injustice at school! bit.ly/3EgtlPb
Privilege. It’s a testimony to the power of meaningful education that we can point to transformative school experiences like those in Hawaii progressive schools.
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“Connecting Modern-Day Social Justice Education Initiatives with the Century-Old Progressive Education Movement” by Dr. Amber Strong Makaiau
Quoting @alfiekohn @BLoveSoulPower @DeweySociety@YUNUSERYAMAN
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Spot-on @CovingtonEDU @alfiekohn "Liberation is achieved...through an educational practice that itself is both liberatory & participatory, that simultaneously creates a new society and involves the people themselves in the creation of their own knowledge” (Horton & Freire, 1990)