How Families are Pushing Schools to Teach Reading Skills More Effectively

How Families are Pushing Schools to Teach Reading Skills More Effectively

As a child, Connie Williams learned to read using the “whole word” strategy, which has since been disproven as an effective technique. She graduated high school in Oakland, Calif., but she was functionally illiterate. Since then, her children and grandchildren have attended Oakland public schools, all of them struggling to learn to read. And it wasn’t just her family -- the district is failing thousands of kids. Now, Connie Williams is part of a movement of families advocating for phonics instruction, hoping that different teaching strategies will help their kids finally learn how to read well enough to access the rest of their education. After all, equal access to education is supposed to be a civil right.

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Where Did All These Teen Activists Come From?

Where Did All These Teen Activists Come From?

Teenagers are demanding to be heard on the issues that matter most to them including climate change, gun control, abortion and immigration. What's different now and what role does public education pla...

29 Loka 201921min

How Art Can Help Center a Student’s Learning Experience

How Art Can Help Center a Student’s Learning Experience

Art has often been relegated as an additional activity in schools. But schools that put art at the center of a child's learning experience through arts integration are seeing kids thrive.

15 Loka 201922min

How Students Would Improve Their School Lunch Experience

How Students Would Improve Their School Lunch Experience

Adults have designed how kids eat at school for generations, directing students into single-file lines and seating them at long roll-away tables to eat mass-produced food. This is all about efficiency...

1 Loka 201921min

Teaching 6-Year-Olds About Privilege and Power

Teaching 6-Year-Olds About Privilege and Power

Privilege and power play out in the world all around us everyday. And kids notice. First grade teacher Bret Turner has decided not to avoid the difficult conversations and questions his students bring...

17 Syys 201922min

Childhood As ‘Resume Building’: Why Play Needs A Comeback

Childhood As ‘Resume Building’: Why Play Needs A Comeback

The kind of free play grown-ups had in previous generations is looked at with nostalgia in today’s era of adult-supervised activities. Children are missing out on the benefits of unstructured play, bu...

3 Syys 201923min

How Can Schools Help Kids With Anxiety?

How Can Schools Help Kids With Anxiety?

Anxiety is running rampant in high schools around the country, both rich and poor. The driving factors may be different, but it’s the same lonely, debilitating feeling. It makes it hard for students t...

20 Elo 201926min

MindShift Podcast is Back With Season Four!

MindShift Podcast is Back With Season Four!

We asked what issues matter to you most and we listened. The fourth season of the MindShift podcast dives into the question: How can we bring joy back to learning and teaching?

13 Elo 20194min

Dropping Out and Coming Back: Stories of Persevering for a Diploma

Dropping Out and Coming Back: Stories of Persevering for a Diploma

Close to 24-percent of Oakland ninth graders drop out before their senior year of high school. Some of those young people ultimately decide that they need to go back to school in order to get ahead in...

20 Marras 201826min

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