Adventures in Learning
A blog about Learning, about Education, about reform, about change, about what it means to teach. I am trying to ask the question "Why we educate" and what my answer means to me as a teacher and how my role shapes society and the whole.
My speeches about youth voice admittedly stemmed from some frustration. Young people are often asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where’s the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now? Just think of the prevailing “let kids be kids” attitude. In the speeches that I deliver to adult audiences, I emphasize how “letting kids be kids” needs to mean letting us be everything we can be. I hope to personify that potential through the advocacy work that I do for literacy, feminism, ending world hunger and youth voice — to literally be a walking “look what happens when you give us opportunities!” sign.
