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Co-Creating Virtual Learning Spaces for School-Based YPAR
Opportunities for critical inquiry, deep learning, and civic engagement are critical to young people’s development as thinkers, problem solvers, and community leaders. Within the context of a global pandemic, however, many of the most typical adolescent experiences for engagement were…
Representative Stephanie Howse Encourages Youth to Speak Up & Fight for Change
To support the goals of this day, the conference has always included a lunchtime keynote. Although the 2021 conference was virtual, the keynote continued. On May 7, 2021, Ohio Representative Stephanie Howse joined the first ever virtual conference as our keynote speaker. Representative…
Sharing the YPAR Work
A key component of engaging young people in their work is to build in opportunities for meaningful and authentic opportunities for sharing what they have learned. Since the first implementation of Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) at Campus International High School in 2017-18, our…
“Museums Are Not Neutral”
This post, part of a larger collection of posts focused on the use of virtual guest speakers and virtual field trips during the facilitation of remote YPAR, offers a glimpse into what YPAR students and facilitators learned in a virtual learning space with guest speakers from the Museum of…
Working with Communities for Social Change
One of the generative innovations that surfaced from the transition to an exclusively virtual version of YPAR during the COVID-19 pandemic was our project team’s decision to include a regular and steady flow of guest speakers from local organizations. Although guest speakers and place-based…
Write Now Teacher Studio
Where teachers write, share, and talk shop about writing and the teaching of writing
Hosted by the National Writing Project, the Write Now Teacher Studio is an open, online community of educators for educators. It’s a place to write together, examine our teaching, create and refine curricula, and work toward ever more effective and equitable practices to create confident, creative, and critical thinkers and writers in our classrooms and courses.