by divinw | Aug 30, 2021
The students did not know what to write in response to the prompt for “home.” Should I describe my house in New York or Colombia? …Bangladesh? …Nepal? When my co-teacher and I designed this prompt to teach New York City students at P.S. 69 in Queens the...
by divinw | Aug 30, 2021
Standing on the threshold of the schoolhouse door surrounded by the flow of traffic moving between the community and the classroom, I notice a pile of what appear to be discards cast to the side outside the doorway. Much of the pile is community knowledge and...
by divinw | Aug 30, 2021
by divinw | Sep 8, 2020
As the field of education offers more inclusive learning environments for students from different backgrounds—for example, cultural, socioeconomic, and neurological, to name a few—providing alternative education models challenges the “one-size-fits-all”...
by divinw | Sep 7, 2018
by Danielle Henn A woman with aching feet sees a five-gallon bucket, turns it upside down, and sits on it. A man who needs quick cash goes into the woods, digs up a dogwood tree, and sells it on the side of the road.A researcher wanders into an unfamiliar field of...
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