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 Sep 201922min
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 Sep 201923min
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 Aug 201926min
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 Aug 20194min
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 Nov 201826min
How Teachers Designed a School Centered On Caring Relationships
Ask almost any teacher why they teach and they'll give you similar answers: they love the kids. But what does that love look like when it's a community value, shared by every adult in the building, no...
6 Nov 201822min
The Role of Community in Creating and Healing Trauma in Kids
When kids live in violence-prone neighborhoods, the environment can enable trauma in their lives. One youth center in Richmond, California, is seeking to change the community’s culture by providing so...
23 Okt 201827min
Overcoming Childhood Trauma: How Parents and Schools Work to Stop the Cycle
Many people have experienced some kind of trauma in their childhood, such as loss of a caregiver, substance abuse in the home, homelessness or abuse. There are ten types of trauma classified as “Adver...
25 Sep 201828min
