What if teaching consent to middle school students was so easy and uncontroversial that every school did it? The good people at Power Up, Speak Out! believe that's possible.
Beth Hoover is an educator for Power Up, Speak Out! in Red Lodge, Montana. She educates teachers, school counselors, administrators, and violence prevention educators about the five lesson toolkit. The five lesson toolkit covers what middle school students deserve in healthy relationships, including lessons about power dynamics, red flags, boundaries, and consent. Hoover is also the communications manager for Power Up, Speak Out! She has her Master of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Wyoming, and draws upon her past work experiences as a librarian, a special education para
This lesson focuses on the concept of "fake news" and the responsibilities of news and media creators and consumers. Students will explore PEN America's News Consumers' Bill of Rights and Responsibilities and read an article about "fake news" that presents strategies on how to approach digital sources.
This lesson focuses on PEN America's News Consumers' Bill of Rights and Responsibilities. Students will read the bill of rights, rephrase some of the rights and responsibilities, and rank the rights in order of importance. Finally, students will work together to construct a short dramatic skit that shows the significance of one right of their choosing.
In the wake of the Philadelphia Eagles' Super Bowl LII win, this South Jersey teacher looks past the celebration to talk with his students about how some players use their influence to create positive change and to challenge his students to do the same.
This high school English teacher encourages educators to focus on African Americans' contributions to the United States, with the Harlem Renaissance as a way to begin.
In the fall of 2016, anthropologist Jia-Hui Stefanie Wong was observing students and educators at a high school when the presidential election took place. This winter, she followed up to see what had changed in the last year.
Jia-Hui Stefanie Wong is a visiting lecturer in Educational Studies at Trinity College and a Ph.D. candidate in Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an educational anthropologist whose research explores how educational inequities are produced, reproduced, and challenged in K-12 schools. She is licensed as a secondary social studies teacher and previously worked in after school programming.