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Book SynopsisEducators of every kind such as school superintendents, principals, teachers, higher education practitioners, community organizers and even students will gain essential skills, resources and examples to encourage and support individual as well as collective empowerment from early childhood education through college in both traditional classrooms and in the broader community. Working toward the goal of empowering young people as active citizens, this collection of chapters presents voices from across the broad community of educators who share their successful individual work of methods and practices that empower young people to engage in their own agency. By using student centered practices in and out of the classroom, their stories demonstrate multiple ways to successfully achieve these ends. The book clearly and effectively presents these concepts: How to encourage self-directed learning; methods and examples of participatory practices and inquiry methods; strategies designing and sup
Trade ReviewEmpowering Our Students for the Future is a visionary book that gives us real world examples of just how powerful it is when children make decisions about their own learning. In doing so, this collection also shows us how to challenge the teacher and test centered education being promoted by corporate education reformers. -- Wayne Au, professor, University of Washington Bothell; editor & author, Rethinking Schools
Creating the conditions for student voice and participation is critically essential to the social and political formation of young people. In this book, the editors bring together an excellent set of essays that provide educators with useful and empowering strategies to support the democratic formation of their students as engaged citizens for a just and democratic society. -- Antonia Darder, Leavey Endowed Chair of Ethics and Moral Leadership, Loyola Marymount University
Empowering our Students for the Future is an excellent resource for educators interested in helping all students take responsibility for their own learning. The book provides exceptional examples that demonstrate the importance of creating learning experiences, which raise engagement and critical skills for success through relevant projects and increased opportunities to increase student agency. -- Lisa Snyder, EdD, executive director, EdVisions
If we’re ever going to be able to use schools as tools to help people of all ages find their ways to lives worth living and work worth doing, we will have to question the assumptions supporting the schooling status quo. Empowering Our Students for the Future is full of the kinds of questions we need and some possible answers as well. -- Dan Grego, director, TransCenter For Youth, Inc.
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1- Empowering Students to Take Control Through Project-Based Learning Scott Wurdinger Chapter 2- The Promise of Action Civics in Closing the Civic Engagement Gap Arielle Jennings Chapter 3- Engagement of Stakeholders in a Learning Community: Avalon School Walter Enloe and David Blake Willis Chapter 4- Finding a Direction, Creating Student Driven Learning Culture Paul Tweed Chapter 5- Have I Ever Stopped You… Fred Chapel Chapter 6- Beyond Revolution: Transforming Whole Schools to Foster Student Power Adam Fletcher Chapter 7- Empowering the Self-Perceived Powerless: Reflections of a first-year, high school science teacher Kimberly Kim Takagi Chapter 8- Empowering Students through Curriculum Development in the College Classroom Kiel Harell and Sara Lam Chapter 9- Preparing New Teachers to Radically Change Predictable and Unequal Outcomes for P-12: A Critical Race Theory Approach Timothy Berry Chapter 10- Engaging and Deschooling Students: Promoting the Grande Passion through Failure and Mastery with Self Determination Theory Pete Allison Chapter 11- (Re)Design to Empower Students In the Classroom and at Scale Jeff Galle Chapter 12- Creating a Foxfire-like project in Teacher Education Carlin Bell, Malaika Boyer, Fred Chapel, Jillian Eissler, Ryan Johnson, Muniza Khan, Diana Lesso, Jose Lovo, J. Cynthia McDermott, Zoe Morris, and Ian Stuart About the Editors About the Contributors
