Process drama, which encourages students to play with inquiry, brings content to life for students. Here’s how it looked in one high school classroom in Ohio.
Coshandra Dillard (she/her) is an associate editor for Learning for Justice. Before joining LFJ, she was a freelance writer and magazine editor. She also worked as a health journalist for more than eight years. Additionally, Coshandra has experience in the classroom, having served as a substitute teacher for grades K-12. You can follow her on Twitter @CoshandraD_LFJ.
Natalie Odom Pough, Ed.D., is a visiting clinical assistant professor of education at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Her work and research interests include new educator attrition and curriculum design in the age of social media and social justice activism in schools. Natalie was named a 2018 ASCD Emerging Leader and is a member of the Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board.
Elizabeth MacQueen is the sculptor of Four Spirits, a monument built to memorialize the four girls killed in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church. In her memoir, she discusses how the project revealed to her how sheltered she had been as a child growing up in Birmingham.
Crystalyn Snow Boyer is an elementary music teacher and freelance musician in the Chicago suburbs. She holds a bachelor's degree in music education and performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and a master's degree in music performance from DePaul University. Boyer is passionate about bringing social justice issues into the music classroom and using the arts to help students make the world a better place.
TT Staff Writer Coshandra Dillard sits down with Susan Bro to discuss her activist work, her hopes for the future and the legacy of her daughter, Heather Heyer.
As the political fallout from the January 6 U.S. Capitol riot unfolds, it’s critical that educators help students contextualize white supremacist movements of the past and present.