Organizing Around the Census
Published by July 20, 2020 in L. Ferlazzo's Three Ways to Bring the Classroom to the Community - Education Week
“Teamwork makes the dreamwork” is more than a pithy phrase. It’s what makes collaborative learning and student-centered project development possible at Chavez. So often when we think and speak about student civic engagement, our floor begins at the middle school level. We reserve visions for large-scale community impact for tweens and teenagers and rely on picture books to meet the needs and interests of our elementary students. We do these students an injustice when we decide, without their input, what content they are ready for and the scale of the impact they can have. Instead, we must think of ourselves as facilitators of developmentally appropriate content that responds to and is driven by student need, experience, and vision. That’s where our culminating projects come in…