I recently posted How Progressive is Your School? to highlight our school’s effort to measure just how progressive we are. The discussion centered upon the article by Alfie Cohen and the 8 values (Intrinsic Motivation, Social Justice, Collaboration, Whole Child, Community, Deep Understanding, Active Learning & Taking Kids Seriously) that encompass being more progressive in how we “do” school. I am now doing a series of posts about our learning community’s ideas about each value. We are now discussing one value per month and looking at ways to follow through in making the value even more a part of our culture at HIS.

  • “How well do I understand my students desires/beliefs in terms of social justice and how much am I imposing my own values onto them?”
  • Can we set up a student organization that deals with discipline issues?
  • Peer Leaders as proactive way to prevent issues
  • Current events across the curriculum showing complexities and diversity
  • Digital citizenship
  • Global citizenship
  • Self-Family-Community-World
  • Expand definition of community
  • How to put students in situations that involve social justice? How to engage their passions?
  • Start with broad theme, go local and connect to lived experience