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It was teeming with life, full of crabs and fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on a return trip one year later, much of the reef \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/17/1245085914/coral-reefs-bleaching-climate-change-algae\">appeared dead\u003c/a>. “It was dull and gray,” she says, which left her feeling hopeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander is not alone. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542519621002783#:~:text=Findings,and%20associated%20feelings%20of%20betrayal\">Survey data \u003c/a>has shown that more than half of young adults have felt anxious, angry, powerless or helpless about human-driven climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If our young people can’t have hope and engage in climate action, then we’re going to have that much harder of a time bending the curve back,” says \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/elissa.epel\">Elissa Epel, \u003c/a>a renowned stress researcher at UC San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, she and a group of her colleagues developed a new course, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.climateresilience.online/\">Climate Resilience\u003c/a>, which they offered for the first time at several UC campuses last spring. The goal is to turn students’ distress about the climate into collective action. Alexander signed up for the class and became a teaching assistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The course offers inspiring lectures from scientists and leaders in the climate movement to introduce a counternarrative to the doom and gloom. Many of us are living in an “information bubble” that can be devastating, Epel says. We’re inundated with negative stories about record heat, hurricanes, floods and wildfires. The challenge is real, but so too are the potential solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, crucially, the course teaches resilience and coping skills, including mindfulness meditation, to empower students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an arc — or a process — for leading people out of these dark inner worlds where they feel alone and separate,” Epel says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who feel negative and hopeless are more likely to disengage or walk away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The great Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh says \u003ca href=\"https://plumvillage.org/podcasts/the-way-out-is-in\">the way out is in\u003c/a>,” she says. To transcend fear and anger, people need to practice compassion, not only for themselves but for others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students do come in very skeptical,” says\u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsd.edu/jyoti.mishra\"> Jyoti Mishra, \u003c/a>a neuroscientist at UC San Diego and co-director of the course. But by the end of the class, there’s a shift in mindset among many, she says. Once a person feels more positive, it can be easier for them to imagine being part of the solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>End-of-class surveys were very positive, and the course will be offered at 10 UC campuses next spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students reported an increased sense of belonging and a belief that they could “work with others” on climate change, says \u003ca href=\"https://health.ucdavis.edu/nursing/ourteam/faculty/Goldin_bio.html\">Philippe Goldin\u003c/a>, a clinical neuroscientist at UC Davis who co-leads the Climate Resilience course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in the course took action: They worked in community gardens dedicated to sustainable agriculture, a waste reduction workshop and a recycling project focused on clothing. Jada Alexander, who has graduated, is now starting \u003ca href=\"https://www.daybreakbeachclub.com/\">an initiative\u003c/a> that integrates surfing with environmental stewardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander knows the solutions are complex, and she still fears for the planet, but “I think that the class increased my ability to be a part of the solution,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epel says the techniques and exercises taught in the class are “universal skills” that can help people manage stress from all sorts of situations. If you want to try, here are some strategies adapted from the course.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. Slow down with moments of calm\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/800x800+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fec%2F23%2F4aabecba4e43b9187baeb6ed9532%2Fweek2-digital-spot-calm-beach.png\">\u003cfigcaption>\u003ccite> (Maria Fabrizio for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you want to stay engaged with the world’s problems, you have to start with your own well-being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you pause to be present and let go of worries, it’s a chance for a quick reset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In daily life, you can look for prompts or create new rituals to help you slow down. For instance, if there’s a church, town hall or campus bell that chimes, you can use that as a moment to pause. Or you can set a reminder on your phone to take pauses throughout your day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s all sorts of cues and signals that can remind us to stop and take a breath,” \u003ca href=\"https://drdianahill.com/\">says Diana Hill,\u003c/a> a clinical psychologist who teaches the course at UC Santa Barbara. When we focus on breath we can activate the parasympathetic nervous system — so our body feels more at ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to try a longer self-care pause, \u003ca href=\"https://ucsf.box.com/s/gw0hwww8q407wxoxerxfvvoqmnaqtmws\">here’s a nature meditation\u003c/a> used in the course from meditation teacher Mark Coleman.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. Just like me: Stare into the eyes of a stranger\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the class, people are asked to pick a partner, typically someone they don’t know. Then, they’re asked to look into each other’s eyes as they’re led through a guided meditation. “This can be uncomfortable,” Hill says, so it’s OK to close your eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can use this \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3QRFeFOlm4\">recording \u003c/a>by Jack Kornfield as a guide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“This person was once a small child just like me. This person has had happy times, just like me,” it begins.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exercise is intended to help people see how much they have in common with every human, even strangers or people who see the world differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>This person has been hurt, just like me.\u003c/em> \u003cem>This person has experienced physical pain, just like me. This person wants to be loved, just like me.” \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meditation ends by asking you to picture your partner’s happy moments and to send them this message: “I know you want to be happy, just like me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This practice of seeing that common humanity is pretty powerful, Hill says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also use the \u003cem>Just Like Me\u003c/em> exercise with someone you have a difficult relationship with. Even if they’re not sitting opposite you, you can imagine looking at them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Honoring others’ pain: It’s OK to cry\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/800x800+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fd9%2Fee%2Ffba3a1344932943b9c4003494239%2Fweek2-digital-spot-honoring-pain.png\">\u003cfigcaption>\u003ccite> (Maria Fabrizio for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“To be activists for any cause, we need to work together, and that starts by expressing our grief, ” Epel says. The course adapted a practice from Joanna Macy and Molly Brown, called \u003ca href=\"https://workthatreconnects.org/resources/open-sentences-on-honoring-our-pain/\">Honoring our Pain\u003c/a>, which takes about 15 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find a friend to try this with. Take turns voicing your concerns. Begin with this prompt: “What concerns me most about the world and society today is….” As one person speaks, the other listens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People think no one wants to hear any thoughts of gloom or grief, Epel says. “But we need to talk about it. We need to process these very heavy emotions of sorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here’s an important takeaway: Listening is a gift. “The quality with which we really listen and offer our attention to others is an act of compassion,” \u003ca href=\"https://health.ucdavis.edu/nursing/ourteam/faculty/Goldin_bio.html\">Goldin\u003c/a> says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During these conversations, “you begin to experience a sense of trust in experiencing your own emotions, sitting with your own emotions and the emotions of others,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do this repeatedly, you really begin to understand what is possible in trusting and being with another person. “It’s very powerful,” Goldin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. Joy spreads, and so do grumbles\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/800x800+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F60%2Ffd%2F5989bf2b41a7adf3cf93225dcb84%2Fweek2-digital-spot-spreading-joy.png\">\u003cfigcaption>\u003ccite> (Maria Fabrizio for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Partners again! This takes about 10 minutes, with each person talking about half the time. For two minutes, you get to complain. It can be a stream of consciousness gripe session — everything that annoys you, anything that’s wrong!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notice how it feels to let it all out. Now it’s time to flip the script.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next two minutes, talk about things that bring you joy. What is bringing you happiness today? What are you grateful for at this moment? \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10393216/\">A recent study\u003c/a> found that people who are taught to practice gratitude have better mental health and fewer symptoms of anxiety and depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I very distinctly remember this exercise,” says Alexander. When people complained, the negative energy spread really quickly. Then there was a distinct shift when they switched to gratitude. “People were laughing, people were smiling, and it created such a vibrant energy throughout the room, “ she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. Write a love letter to the Earth\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/800x800+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F81%2F3c%2Ff4efd8b14a1daca760cc6595379b%2Fweek2-digital-spot-letter-earth.png\">\u003cfigcaption>\u003ccite> (Maria Fabrizio for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Take a short walk outside — five or 10 minutes should do it — or just sit quietly in a favorite outdoor spot. Think of it as a mini nature retreat to connect with the natural world. When you feel relaxed, you can start to write down some thoughts and compose a letter. Here are some potential prompt questions borrowed from the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has your experience been like in nature? Have you felt love?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epel says letting yourself feel love and gratitude for the Earth can elicit strong emotions, so let go and fall into the stillness. You can check out Vietnamese Buddhist monk \u003ca href=\"https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/ten-love-letters-to-the-earth/\">Thich Nhat Hanh’s love letters to the Earth\u003c/a> to help you get started.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>6. Letter to your future self\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Writing a letter to your future self is a “perspective taking” practice, says Hill. It’s a way to step away from your current struggles or stressors and shift the focus to all your potential opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Start by imagining yourself at some date in the future, be it one year from now or even 20 years down the road. What is it that you hope for yourself? Where do you want to be? 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Once you have that kind of future in mind, you could start thinking about some specific goals — and steps to take — to get there. “It can be quite motivating,” Hill says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another option is to write a letter to your future self about what happens if you don’t engage in helping solve the problem. “If you bring awareness to the pain or the discomfort of what could happen if you didn’t do anything, that can be a motivating force too,” Hill says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Stress Less editors are Carmel Wroth and Jane Greenhalgh.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"More than half of young adults feel anxious, angry and powerless over climate change, a recent survey found. But there are ways to help turn that distress around. 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Then imagine it’s threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what Jada Alexander experienced when she was studying coral reefs in French Polynesia. During her first trip, as a student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she was captivated. “The coral reef was vibrant. It was beautiful,” she recalls. It was teeming with life, full of crabs and fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on a return trip one year later, much of the reef \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/17/1245085914/coral-reefs-bleaching-climate-change-algae\">appeared dead\u003c/a>. “It was dull and gray,” she says, which left her feeling hopeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander is not alone. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542519621002783#:~:text=Findings,and%20associated%20feelings%20of%20betrayal\">Survey data \u003c/a>has shown that more than half of young adults have felt anxious, angry, powerless or helpless about human-driven climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If our young people can’t have hope and engage in climate action, then we’re going to have that much harder of a time bending the curve back,” says \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/elissa.epel\">Elissa Epel, \u003c/a>a renowned stress researcher at UC San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, she and a group of her colleagues developed a new course, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.climateresilience.online/\">Climate Resilience\u003c/a>, which they offered for the first time at several UC campuses last spring. The goal is to turn students’ distress about the climate into collective action. Alexander signed up for the class and became a teaching assistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The course offers inspiring lectures from scientists and leaders in the climate movement to introduce a counternarrative to the doom and gloom. Many of us are living in an “information bubble” that can be devastating, Epel says. We’re inundated with negative stories about record heat, hurricanes, floods and wildfires. The challenge is real, but so too are the potential solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, crucially, the course teaches resilience and coping skills, including mindfulness meditation, to empower students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an arc — or a process — for leading people out of these dark inner worlds where they feel alone and separate,” Epel says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who feel negative and hopeless are more likely to disengage or walk away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The great Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh says \u003ca href=\"https://plumvillage.org/podcasts/the-way-out-is-in\">the way out is in\u003c/a>,” she says. To transcend fear and anger, people need to practice compassion, not only for themselves but for others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students do come in very skeptical,” says\u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsd.edu/jyoti.mishra\"> Jyoti Mishra, \u003c/a>a neuroscientist at UC San Diego and co-director of the course. But by the end of the class, there’s a shift in mindset among many, she says. Once a person feels more positive, it can be easier for them to imagine being part of the solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>End-of-class surveys were very positive, and the course will be offered at 10 UC campuses next spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students reported an increased sense of belonging and a belief that they could “work with others” on climate change, says \u003ca href=\"https://health.ucdavis.edu/nursing/ourteam/faculty/Goldin_bio.html\">Philippe Goldin\u003c/a>, a clinical neuroscientist at UC Davis who co-leads the Climate Resilience course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in the course took action: They worked in community gardens dedicated to sustainable agriculture, a waste reduction workshop and a recycling project focused on clothing. Jada Alexander, who has graduated, is now starting \u003ca href=\"https://www.daybreakbeachclub.com/\">an initiative\u003c/a> that integrates surfing with environmental stewardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander knows the solutions are complex, and she still fears for the planet, but “I think that the class increased my ability to be a part of the solution,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epel says the techniques and exercises taught in the class are “universal skills” that can help people manage stress from all sorts of situations. If you want to try, here are some strategies adapted from the course.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. Slow down with moments of calm\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/800x800+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fec%2F23%2F4aabecba4e43b9187baeb6ed9532%2Fweek2-digital-spot-calm-beach.png\">\u003cfigcaption>\u003ccite> (Maria Fabrizio for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you want to stay engaged with the world’s problems, you have to start with your own well-being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you pause to be present and let go of worries, it’s a chance for a quick reset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In daily life, you can look for prompts or create new rituals to help you slow down. For instance, if there’s a church, town hall or campus bell that chimes, you can use that as a moment to pause. Or you can set a reminder on your phone to take pauses throughout your day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s all sorts of cues and signals that can remind us to stop and take a breath,” \u003ca href=\"https://drdianahill.com/\">says Diana Hill,\u003c/a> a clinical psychologist who teaches the course at UC Santa Barbara. When we focus on breath we can activate the parasympathetic nervous system — so our body feels more at ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to try a longer self-care pause, \u003ca href=\"https://ucsf.box.com/s/gw0hwww8q407wxoxerxfvvoqmnaqtmws\">here’s a nature meditation\u003c/a> used in the course from meditation teacher Mark Coleman.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. Just like me: Stare into the eyes of a stranger\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the class, people are asked to pick a partner, typically someone they don’t know. Then, they’re asked to look into each other’s eyes as they’re led through a guided meditation. “This can be uncomfortable,” Hill says, so it’s OK to close your eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can use this \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3QRFeFOlm4\">recording \u003c/a>by Jack Kornfield as a guide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“This person was once a small child just like me. This person has had happy times, just like me,” it begins.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exercise is intended to help people see how much they have in common with every human, even strangers or people who see the world differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>This person has been hurt, just like me.\u003c/em> \u003cem>This person has experienced physical pain, just like me. This person wants to be loved, just like me.” \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meditation ends by asking you to picture your partner’s happy moments and to send them this message: “I know you want to be happy, just like me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This practice of seeing that common humanity is pretty powerful, Hill says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also use the \u003cem>Just Like Me\u003c/em> exercise with someone you have a difficult relationship with. Even if they’re not sitting opposite you, you can imagine looking at them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Honoring others’ pain: It’s OK to cry\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/800x800+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fd9%2Fee%2Ffba3a1344932943b9c4003494239%2Fweek2-digital-spot-honoring-pain.png\">\u003cfigcaption>\u003ccite> (Maria Fabrizio for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“To be activists for any cause, we need to work together, and that starts by expressing our grief, ” Epel says. The course adapted a practice from Joanna Macy and Molly Brown, called \u003ca href=\"https://workthatreconnects.org/resources/open-sentences-on-honoring-our-pain/\">Honoring our Pain\u003c/a>, which takes about 15 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find a friend to try this with. Take turns voicing your concerns. Begin with this prompt: “What concerns me most about the world and society today is….” As one person speaks, the other listens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People think no one wants to hear any thoughts of gloom or grief, Epel says. “But we need to talk about it. We need to process these very heavy emotions of sorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here’s an important takeaway: Listening is a gift. “The quality with which we really listen and offer our attention to others is an act of compassion,” \u003ca href=\"https://health.ucdavis.edu/nursing/ourteam/faculty/Goldin_bio.html\">Goldin\u003c/a> says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During these conversations, “you begin to experience a sense of trust in experiencing your own emotions, sitting with your own emotions and the emotions of others,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do this repeatedly, you really begin to understand what is possible in trusting and being with another person. “It’s very powerful,” Goldin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. Joy spreads, and so do grumbles\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/800x800+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F60%2Ffd%2F5989bf2b41a7adf3cf93225dcb84%2Fweek2-digital-spot-spreading-joy.png\">\u003cfigcaption>\u003ccite> (Maria Fabrizio for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Partners again! This takes about 10 minutes, with each person talking about half the time. For two minutes, you get to complain. It can be a stream of consciousness gripe session — everything that annoys you, anything that’s wrong!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notice how it feels to let it all out. Now it’s time to flip the script.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next two minutes, talk about things that bring you joy. What is bringing you happiness today? What are you grateful for at this moment? \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10393216/\">A recent study\u003c/a> found that people who are taught to practice gratitude have better mental health and fewer symptoms of anxiety and depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I very distinctly remember this exercise,” says Alexander. When people complained, the negative energy spread really quickly. Then there was a distinct shift when they switched to gratitude. “People were laughing, people were smiling, and it created such a vibrant energy throughout the room, “ she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. Write a love letter to the Earth\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/800x800+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F81%2F3c%2Ff4efd8b14a1daca760cc6595379b%2Fweek2-digital-spot-letter-earth.png\">\u003cfigcaption>\u003ccite> (Maria Fabrizio for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Take a short walk outside — five or 10 minutes should do it — or just sit quietly in a favorite outdoor spot. Think of it as a mini nature retreat to connect with the natural world. When you feel relaxed, you can start to write down some thoughts and compose a letter. Here are some potential prompt questions borrowed from the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has your experience been like in nature? Have you felt love?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epel says letting yourself feel love and gratitude for the Earth can elicit strong emotions, so let go and fall into the stillness. You can check out Vietnamese Buddhist monk \u003ca href=\"https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/ten-love-letters-to-the-earth/\">Thich Nhat Hanh’s love letters to the Earth\u003c/a> to help you get started.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>6. Letter to your future self\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Writing a letter to your future self is a “perspective taking” practice, says Hill. It’s a way to step away from your current struggles or stressors and shift the focus to all your potential opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Start by imagining yourself at some date in the future, be it one year from now or even 20 years down the road. What is it that you hope for yourself? Where do you want to be? What kind of hurdles have you overcome?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed npr-promo-card insettwocolumn\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maybe you can see a future where the climate crisis is being solved, where you’re working with others on solutions to specific problems. Once you have that kind of future in mind, you could start thinking about some specific goals — and steps to take — to get there. “It can be quite motivating,” Hill says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another option is to write a letter to your future self about what happens if you don’t engage in helping solve the problem. “If you bring awareness to the pain or the discomfort of what could happen if you didn’t do anything, that can be a motivating force too,” Hill says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Stress Less editors are Carmel Wroth and Jane Greenhalgh.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/64855/6-ways-to-turn-climate-change-anxiety-into-action","authors":["byline_mindshift_64855"],"categories":["mindshift_21280"],"tags":["mindshift_20589","mindshift_21897","mindshift_21124","mindshift_21819","mindshift_20925"],"featImg":"mindshift_64856","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_64833":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_64833","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"mindshift","id":"64833","score":null,"sort":[1728381768000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"why-are-students-paying-fees-to-access-homework-assignments","title":"Why Are Students Paying Fees to Access Homework Assignments?","publishDate":1728381768,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Why Are Students Paying Fees to Access Homework Assignments? | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Years ago, Victoria Clinton-Lisell, a professor of educational psychology at the University of North Dakota, decided to use a commercial textbook for her class along with an online homework platform. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Clinton-Lisell said the publishing company rep told her that if she used their homework platform in her course, students would benefit from adaptive learning technology. If students got the questions wrong, they would be given questions more suited for them — “so it was ‘scaffolded,’” Clinton-Lisell said. She was also told this homework was “free.” What she didn’t learn until later was that the homework platform was free \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">with\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the purchase of the hard copy of the book.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was a lot of education buzzwords that, being an educational psychologist, I was very interested in,” she said. When class started, a student approached her wanting to use the hard copy from a friend who took the class the previous term. But the student wondered how to access the homework. Clinton-Lisell realized students would need to pay for a \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">new \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">copy of the book before they could do the exercises she was so excited about. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I had all these students who had to purchase access,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In recent years, use of online homework systems that students gain access to by buying a code has become more widespread. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ijtes.net/index.php/ijtes/article/view/547\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A recent survey\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> conducted by Clinton-Lisell and her colleague Alison Kelly, found that nearly 80% of students say they have been required to purchase an access code to an online homework system. A 2022 study found most faculty in the United States, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bayviewanalytics.com/reports/turningpointdigitalcurricula_infographic.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">72%, have required or recommended use of online homework systems\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for their students to complete coursework in at least one of their classes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Often the homework systems are bundled with required digital or hard copy textbooks and the digital platforms offer students supplemental materials such as practice questions, quizzes and videos. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And they come with a price tag — an \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">average of $90 per course, according to the survey findings.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If you’re taking five courses and they all require access codes, that is an additional $450 for that semester that you need to pay just to do your homework,” Clinton-Lisell said. “It creates a financial barrier to what used to be free resources.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Access codes for homework platforms, created by educational publishing companies, are assigned individually, are not reusable by others and they expire after a certain period of time. For many students, their grades could be dependent on whether they complete assignments within the system.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The survey conducted by Clinton-Lisell and Kelly received responses from 966 students at campuses across the county. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some students noted in the survey that they like the immediate feedback they receive from the homework systems and that it encourages interaction with their courses. But others complained of costs and were concerned that questions in the homework systems might be different from what’s being presented in class.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the survey, Black students said the homework systems were more helpful compared to other students. Latinx students were more likely to say that their grades went down because they were not able to afford access codes. Additionally, more first-generation students reported avoiding certain courses requiring online homework systems compared to continuing-generation students, according to the survey. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We are always sensitive to and aware of the challenges that students face in the context of the environment these days and the costs that they’re having to navigate and juggle, and that is one of the motivations and drivers for us to how to sort of create digital products that are affordable, of high quality and improve student outcomes,” said Kate Edwards, senior vice president of efficacy and research at Pearson, one of the largest course material publishers in the country.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Students think the price of doing homework is “unreasonable”\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Features of an online homework platform often include quizzes, interactive problems, videos and other visuals that can help students learn course concepts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the survey by Clinton-Lisell, students described the costs of online homework systems to be “somewhat unreasonable.” In comparison, the price students considered to be fair for these features was one-third of the actual figure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jake Twomey, a student at University of California Santa Barbara and a member of Student Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) is appalled by the idea of paying for homework. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“[Students are] not the most well off people,” said Twomey. “I know students who sometimes, really unfortunately, have to make the decision between buying access codes for a class, or getting dinner tomorrow. These are very real decisions for students.”\u003c/span>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students in the survey also questioned the seamlessness of the systems. Clinton-Lisell said many students feel that because publishers are the ones creating the exercises, professors end up not being knowledgeable about the problems their students are working on or they are unable to help troubleshoot technical issues that might come up. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“[Faculty are] not involved in curating or developing the homework, or at least as much,” said Clinton-Lissel, citing a lack of alignment sometimes between the homework and the class content. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Edwards said Pearson’s online homework platforms such as MyLab, provides a selection of assessments from the core content of a course and an instructor is then able to have “the flexibility to select the questions that they think are most suitable for their own class context.” Edwards adds that there are many opportunities for an instructor to personalize and ensure that their classes and the assignments align. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>What historically underrepresented students say about homework platforms\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">First-generation college students are spending more per semester for online materials compared to their continuing-generation peers, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ijtes.net/index.php/ijtes/article/view/547\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">according to the survey\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. At the same time, 11% of first-generation students reported failing a class because they could not afford the access codes compared with 2.9% of continuing generation students. And 35.8% of first-generation students said they got worse grades compared to 25.6% of continuing generation students because of the costs of online homework systems.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have students who are already marginalized by systemic barriers now being given another,” said Clinton-Lisell. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Latinx students reported high levels of stress over the cost of online homework systems and were more likely to not purchase textbooks, and have their grades suffer because of it. Black students said they paid for more access codes than any other student groups but had the lowest stress levels related to cost. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>The benefits to online homework systems\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite the fees, some students who were part of Clinton-Lisell’s survey did report benefits. Black students in particular said they were useful and reported more course content engagement compared to other students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Clinton-Lisell said that in the survey, students praised the idea of homework itself rather than the platforms where they complete the work. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They want to be able to practice, they don’t want to wait until the test to find out if they know it, and it’s a way for them to support their grade,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For students who are more visually inclined or need to understand dense material, online exercises are especially helpful for visualizing certain concepts. The online systems will often include videos and other visuals to explain complex ideas. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Clinton-Lisell said those benefits should be weighed against the impact of costs on students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kyle Goodin, an accounting professor at Missouri State University, uses an online homework system by McGraw Hill, where he is also a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mheducation.com/highered/blog/2024/06/dfc-spotlight-kyle-goodin-secrets-to-increasing-2024-accounting-enrollments-at-missouri-state.html\">consultant\u003c/a>. He said the platform, called Connect, has increased student engagement and improved “drop, fail, withdrawal” rates for some classes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think the value that students get for what they pay for these is astronomical,” Goodin said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Goodin’s \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">financial accounting course, for example, students pay $152 for a digital book, homework manager, proctoring service and additional resources per term. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Goodin said because of the homework platform, students can immerse themselves in data analysis and visualizations, which is increasingly important in the field of accounting.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I remember paying much more than this, for much less when I was a student,” Goodin said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Moving toward open education resources\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back in 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic forced campuses to shut down, big publishers made online homework platforms free. Many faculty incorporated them into their courses and have kept on using them even after the fees were reinstated. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Clinton-Lisell said results of her survey shows faculty could look more into open education resources — course materials available under public domain or open license that are free or accessible at a nominal fee. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dan Xie, political director of PIRG Campus Action, said in a world where knowledge and information is everywhere, students shouldn’t have to pay exorbitant amounts to learn course material and do their homework. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have open textbooks … that are extremely high quality, peer reviewed, that professors can and do choose from,” Xie said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But professors like Goodin are skeptical about widespread use of open education resources.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“These textbook companies like Wiley and McGraw Hill and Pearson, they’ve got authors that are vetted experts in their subject matter,” he said. Goodin said he doesn’t believe, at this point in time, that open-source textbooks can provide as much value compared to what publishers’ course materials provide. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Still, there’s a movement to try and incentivize faculty — through grants and stipends — into creating their own open textbooks and course materials. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I really think that’s the future of education,” said Xie. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Online homework access fees are growing, and no, buying a used book doesn’t help. 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If students got the questions wrong, they would be given questions more suited for them — “so it was ‘scaffolded,’” Clinton-Lisell said. She was also told this homework was “free.” What she didn’t learn until later was that the homework platform was free \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">with\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the purchase of the hard copy of the book.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was a lot of education buzzwords that, being an educational psychologist, I was very interested in,” she said. When class started, a student approached her wanting to use the hard copy from a friend who took the class the previous term. But the student wondered how to access the homework. Clinton-Lisell realized students would need to pay for a \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">new \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">copy of the book before they could do the exercises she was so excited about. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I had all these students who had to purchase access,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In recent years, use of online homework systems that students gain access to by buying a code has become more widespread. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ijtes.net/index.php/ijtes/article/view/547\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A recent survey\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> conducted by Clinton-Lisell and her colleague Alison Kelly, found that nearly 80% of students say they have been required to purchase an access code to an online homework system. A 2022 study found most faculty in the United States, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bayviewanalytics.com/reports/turningpointdigitalcurricula_infographic.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">72%, have required or recommended use of online homework systems\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for their students to complete coursework in at least one of their classes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Often the homework systems are bundled with required digital or hard copy textbooks and the digital platforms offer students supplemental materials such as practice questions, quizzes and videos. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And they come with a price tag — an \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">average of $90 per course, according to the survey findings.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If you’re taking five courses and they all require access codes, that is an additional $450 for that semester that you need to pay just to do your homework,” Clinton-Lisell said. “It creates a financial barrier to what used to be free resources.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Access codes for homework platforms, created by educational publishing companies, are assigned individually, are not reusable by others and they expire after a certain period of time. For many students, their grades could be dependent on whether they complete assignments within the system.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The survey conducted by Clinton-Lisell and Kelly received responses from 966 students at campuses across the county. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some students noted in the survey that they like the immediate feedback they receive from the homework systems and that it encourages interaction with their courses. But others complained of costs and were concerned that questions in the homework systems might be different from what’s being presented in class.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the survey, Black students said the homework systems were more helpful compared to other students. Latinx students were more likely to say that their grades went down because they were not able to afford access codes. Additionally, more first-generation students reported avoiding certain courses requiring online homework systems compared to continuing-generation students, according to the survey. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We are always sensitive to and aware of the challenges that students face in the context of the environment these days and the costs that they’re having to navigate and juggle, and that is one of the motivations and drivers for us to how to sort of create digital products that are affordable, of high quality and improve student outcomes,” said Kate Edwards, senior vice president of efficacy and research at Pearson, one of the largest course material publishers in the country.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Students think the price of doing homework is “unreasonable”\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Features of an online homework platform often include quizzes, interactive problems, videos and other visuals that can help students learn course concepts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the survey by Clinton-Lisell, students described the costs of online homework systems to be “somewhat unreasonable.” In comparison, the price students considered to be fair for these features was one-third of the actual figure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jake Twomey, a student at University of California Santa Barbara and a member of Student Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) is appalled by the idea of paying for homework. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“[Students are] not the most well off people,” said Twomey. “I know students who sometimes, really unfortunately, have to make the decision between buying access codes for a class, or getting dinner tomorrow. These are very real decisions for students.”\u003c/span>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students in the survey also questioned the seamlessness of the systems. Clinton-Lisell said many students feel that because publishers are the ones creating the exercises, professors end up not being knowledgeable about the problems their students are working on or they are unable to help troubleshoot technical issues that might come up. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“[Faculty are] not involved in curating or developing the homework, or at least as much,” said Clinton-Lissel, citing a lack of alignment sometimes between the homework and the class content. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Edwards said Pearson’s online homework platforms such as MyLab, provides a selection of assessments from the core content of a course and an instructor is then able to have “the flexibility to select the questions that they think are most suitable for their own class context.” Edwards adds that there are many opportunities for an instructor to personalize and ensure that their classes and the assignments align. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>What historically underrepresented students say about homework platforms\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">First-generation college students are spending more per semester for online materials compared to their continuing-generation peers, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ijtes.net/index.php/ijtes/article/view/547\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">according to the survey\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. At the same time, 11% of first-generation students reported failing a class because they could not afford the access codes compared with 2.9% of continuing generation students. And 35.8% of first-generation students said they got worse grades compared to 25.6% of continuing generation students because of the costs of online homework systems.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have students who are already marginalized by systemic barriers now being given another,” said Clinton-Lisell. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Latinx students reported high levels of stress over the cost of online homework systems and were more likely to not purchase textbooks, and have their grades suffer because of it. Black students said they paid for more access codes than any other student groups but had the lowest stress levels related to cost. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>The benefits to online homework systems\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite the fees, some students who were part of Clinton-Lisell’s survey did report benefits. Black students in particular said they were useful and reported more course content engagement compared to other students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Clinton-Lisell said that in the survey, students praised the idea of homework itself rather than the platforms where they complete the work. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They want to be able to practice, they don’t want to wait until the test to find out if they know it, and it’s a way for them to support their grade,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For students who are more visually inclined or need to understand dense material, online exercises are especially helpful for visualizing certain concepts. The online systems will often include videos and other visuals to explain complex ideas. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Clinton-Lisell said those benefits should be weighed against the impact of costs on students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kyle Goodin, an accounting professor at Missouri State University, uses an online homework system by McGraw Hill, where he is also a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mheducation.com/highered/blog/2024/06/dfc-spotlight-kyle-goodin-secrets-to-increasing-2024-accounting-enrollments-at-missouri-state.html\">consultant\u003c/a>. He said the platform, called Connect, has increased student engagement and improved “drop, fail, withdrawal” rates for some classes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think the value that students get for what they pay for these is astronomical,” Goodin said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Goodin’s \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">financial accounting course, for example, students pay $152 for a digital book, homework manager, proctoring service and additional resources per term. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Goodin said because of the homework platform, students can immerse themselves in data analysis and visualizations, which is increasingly important in the field of accounting.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I remember paying much more than this, for much less when I was a student,” Goodin said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Moving toward open education resources\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back in 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic forced campuses to shut down, big publishers made online homework platforms free. Many faculty incorporated them into their courses and have kept on using them even after the fees were reinstated. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Clinton-Lisell said results of her survey shows faculty could look more into open education resources — course materials available under public domain or open license that are free or accessible at a nominal fee. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dan Xie, political director of PIRG Campus Action, said in a world where knowledge and information is everywhere, students shouldn’t have to pay exorbitant amounts to learn course material and do their homework. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have open textbooks … that are extremely high quality, peer reviewed, that professors can and do choose from,” Xie said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But professors like Goodin are skeptical about widespread use of open education resources.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“These textbook companies like Wiley and McGraw Hill and Pearson, they’ve got authors that are vetted experts in their subject matter,” he said. Goodin said he doesn’t believe, at this point in time, that open-source textbooks can provide as much value compared to what publishers’ course materials provide. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Still, there’s a movement to try and incentivize faculty — through grants and stipends — into creating their own open textbooks and course materials. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I really think that’s the future of education,” said Xie. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/64833/why-are-students-paying-fees-to-access-homework-assignments","authors":["11509"],"categories":["mindshift_21504"],"tags":["mindshift_21305","mindshift_106","mindshift_563","mindshift_458","mindshift_452"],"featImg":"mindshift_64835","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_64821":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_64821","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"mindshift","id":"64821","score":null,"sort":[1728295307000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-does-the-first-letter-of-your-last-name-say-about-your-grades-a-lot-according-to-a-study","title":"How the First Letter of Your Last Name Can Affect Your Grades in College","publishDate":1728295307,"format":"standard","headTitle":"How the First Letter of Your Last Name Can Affect Your Grades in College | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>If your last name starts with an A, that could mean that you’re also more likely to score an A on a test. But if you’re a Wilson or a Ziegler, you may be suffering from a new slight of the modern age: lower college grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grading processes have profoundly changed at colleges and universities in the past decade. Instead of placing assignments on a table in the front of the classroom, students today upload their work to a website, called a Learning Management System or LMS, where course documents, assignments and communications are all housed. Students can even take their exams directly within the LMS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Course instructors mark assignments, papers and exams within the LMS, which also functions as a computerized grade book. The default setting is to sort student submissions in alphabetical order by surname. The computer system automatically guides the instructor to grade Adams before Baker all the way down to Zimmerman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A trio of researchers at the University of Michigan, including one whose surname begins with W, documented an unintended consequence of grading in alphabetical order. “There is such a tendency of graders to give lower grades as they grade more,” said Helen Wang, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at the University of Michigan’s business school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wang and her two co-authors analyzed over 30 million grades at a large university that uses the most popular LMS, which is called Canvas. They calculated that surnames starting with U to Z were docked a little more than half a point (0.6 points) on a 100-point scale compared with A-to-E surnames. That’s a rather small penalty. But cumulatively, these small dings can add up and eventually translate into the difference between an A-minus and a B-plus on a final grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study is described in a \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4603146\">2024 draft paper\u003c/a> posted on the website of SSRN, formerly known as the Social Science Research Network. It is currently undergoing revisions with the academic journal Management Science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers detected grading bias against the end of the alphabet in a wide range of subjects. However, the grading penalty was more pronounced in the social sciences and the humanities compared to engineering, science and medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to lower grades, the researchers also found that students at the bottom of the alphabet received more negative and impolite comments. For example, “why no answers to Q 2 and 3? You are setting yourself up for a failing grade,” and “NEVER DO THAT AGAIN.” Top-of-the-alphabet students were more likely to receive, “Much better work on this draft, [Student First Name]! Thank you!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers cannot prove precisely why extra points are deducted for the Wilsons of the world, but they suspect it’s because instructors – mostly graduate students at the unnamed university in this study – have heavy grading loads and they get tired and cranky, especially after grading the 50th student in a row. Even before the era of electronic grading, it’s quite likely the instructors were not as fair to students at the bottom of the paper pile. But in the paper world, a student’s position in the stack was always changing, depending on when the papers were turned in and how the instructors picked them up. No student was likely to be in the bottom of the pile every time. In the LMS world, the U’s, V’s, W’s, X’s, Y’s and Z’s almost always are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another theory mentioned by the authors in the paper is that instructors may feel the need to be stricter if they’ve already given out a string of A’s, so as not to be too generous with high marks. Students at the bottom of the alphabet may be the victims of a well-intentioned effort to restrain grade inflation. It’s also possible that instructors are too generous with students at the top of the alphabet, but grade more accurately as they proceed. Either way, students at the bottom are being graded differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some college instructors seem to be aware of their human frailty. In 2018, one posted \u003ca href=\"https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Ideas/Speedgrader-Randomize-submissions/idi-p/345482\">on a message board\u003c/a> at Canvas, asking the company to randomize the grade book. “For me, bias starts to creep in with fatigue,” the instructor wrote. “I grade a few, go away from it, grade a few more, take a break. Or that’s the goal when I’m not up against a deadline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve read this far, perhaps you are wondering how the researchers know that the grades for the U-to-Z students were unfair. Maybe they’re comparatively worse students? But the researchers matched the grades in Canvas with the student records in the registrar’s office and they were able to control for a host of student characteristics, from high school grades and college GPA to race, ethnicity, gender, family background and income. End-of-the alphabet surnames consistently received lower marks even among similar students who were graded by the same instructor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers also found that a tiny fraction of instructors tinkered with the default settings and graded in reverse alphabetical order, from Z to A. That led to the exact opposite results; students with end-of-the alphabet names earned higher grades, while the grades for A, B and C surnames were lower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bias against end-of-alphabet surnames is probably not unique to students who use the Canvas LMS. All four major LMS companies, which collectively control 90 percent of the U.S. and Canadian market with more than 48 million students, order submissions alphabetically for grading, according to the researchers. Even Coursera, a separate online learning platform, does it this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wang’s solution is to shake things up and have the LMS present student work for grading in random order. Indeed, Canvas added a \u003ca href=\"https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Releases/Canvas-Deploy-Notes-2024-05-22/ta-p/603158#toc-hId--865365132\">randomize option for instructors in May 2024\u003c/a>, after the company saw a draft of this University of Michigan study. “It was something that we had on our radar and that we’d heard from some users, but had not completed it yet,” a company spokesman said. “The report from the University of Michigan definitely pushed that work to top priority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the default remains alphabetical order and instructors need to navigate to the settings to change it. (Changing this default, according to the study authors, has “low visibility” within system settings on the site.) I hope this story helps to get the word out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story about \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-last-name-skew-grades/\">\u003cem>learning management systems\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> was written by Jill Barshay and produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/higher-education/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proofpoints/\">\u003cem>Proof Points\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and other \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/newsletters/\">\u003cem>Hechinger newsletters\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A study reveals bias in grades depending on where your last name falls on the alphabet. 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But if you’re a Wilson or a Ziegler, you may be suffering from a new slight of the modern age: lower college grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grading processes have profoundly changed at colleges and universities in the past decade. Instead of placing assignments on a table in the front of the classroom, students today upload their work to a website, called a Learning Management System or LMS, where course documents, assignments and communications are all housed. Students can even take their exams directly within the LMS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Course instructors mark assignments, papers and exams within the LMS, which also functions as a computerized grade book. The default setting is to sort student submissions in alphabetical order by surname. The computer system automatically guides the instructor to grade Adams before Baker all the way down to Zimmerman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A trio of researchers at the University of Michigan, including one whose surname begins with W, documented an unintended consequence of grading in alphabetical order. “There is such a tendency of graders to give lower grades as they grade more,” said Helen Wang, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at the University of Michigan’s business school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wang and her two co-authors analyzed over 30 million grades at a large university that uses the most popular LMS, which is called Canvas. They calculated that surnames starting with U to Z were docked a little more than half a point (0.6 points) on a 100-point scale compared with A-to-E surnames. That’s a rather small penalty. But cumulatively, these small dings can add up and eventually translate into the difference between an A-minus and a B-plus on a final grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study is described in a \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4603146\">2024 draft paper\u003c/a> posted on the website of SSRN, formerly known as the Social Science Research Network. It is currently undergoing revisions with the academic journal Management Science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers detected grading bias against the end of the alphabet in a wide range of subjects. However, the grading penalty was more pronounced in the social sciences and the humanities compared to engineering, science and medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to lower grades, the researchers also found that students at the bottom of the alphabet received more negative and impolite comments. For example, “why no answers to Q 2 and 3? You are setting yourself up for a failing grade,” and “NEVER DO THAT AGAIN.” Top-of-the-alphabet students were more likely to receive, “Much better work on this draft, [Student First Name]! Thank you!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers cannot prove precisely why extra points are deducted for the Wilsons of the world, but they suspect it’s because instructors – mostly graduate students at the unnamed university in this study – have heavy grading loads and they get tired and cranky, especially after grading the 50th student in a row. Even before the era of electronic grading, it’s quite likely the instructors were not as fair to students at the bottom of the paper pile. But in the paper world, a student’s position in the stack was always changing, depending on when the papers were turned in and how the instructors picked them up. No student was likely to be in the bottom of the pile every time. In the LMS world, the U’s, V’s, W’s, X’s, Y’s and Z’s almost always are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another theory mentioned by the authors in the paper is that instructors may feel the need to be stricter if they’ve already given out a string of A’s, so as not to be too generous with high marks. Students at the bottom of the alphabet may be the victims of a well-intentioned effort to restrain grade inflation. It’s also possible that instructors are too generous with students at the top of the alphabet, but grade more accurately as they proceed. Either way, students at the bottom are being graded differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some college instructors seem to be aware of their human frailty. In 2018, one posted \u003ca href=\"https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Ideas/Speedgrader-Randomize-submissions/idi-p/345482\">on a message board\u003c/a> at Canvas, asking the company to randomize the grade book. “For me, bias starts to creep in with fatigue,” the instructor wrote. “I grade a few, go away from it, grade a few more, take a break. Or that’s the goal when I’m not up against a deadline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve read this far, perhaps you are wondering how the researchers know that the grades for the U-to-Z students were unfair. Maybe they’re comparatively worse students? But the researchers matched the grades in Canvas with the student records in the registrar’s office and they were able to control for a host of student characteristics, from high school grades and college GPA to race, ethnicity, gender, family background and income. End-of-the alphabet surnames consistently received lower marks even among similar students who were graded by the same instructor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers also found that a tiny fraction of instructors tinkered with the default settings and graded in reverse alphabetical order, from Z to A. That led to the exact opposite results; students with end-of-the alphabet names earned higher grades, while the grades for A, B and C surnames were lower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bias against end-of-alphabet surnames is probably not unique to students who use the Canvas LMS. All four major LMS companies, which collectively control 90 percent of the U.S. and Canadian market with more than 48 million students, order submissions alphabetically for grading, according to the researchers. Even Coursera, a separate online learning platform, does it this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wang’s solution is to shake things up and have the LMS present student work for grading in random order. Indeed, Canvas added a \u003ca href=\"https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Releases/Canvas-Deploy-Notes-2024-05-22/ta-p/603158#toc-hId--865365132\">randomize option for instructors in May 2024\u003c/a>, after the company saw a draft of this University of Michigan study. “It was something that we had on our radar and that we’d heard from some users, but had not completed it yet,” a company spokesman said. “The report from the University of Michigan definitely pushed that work to top priority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the default remains alphabetical order and instructors need to navigate to the settings to change it. (Changing this default, according to the study authors, has “low visibility” within system settings on the site.) I hope this story helps to get the word out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story about \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-last-name-skew-grades/\">\u003cem>learning management systems\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> was written by Jill Barshay and produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/higher-education/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proofpoints/\">\u003cem>Proof Points\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and other \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/newsletters/\">\u003cem>Hechinger newsletters\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/64821/what-does-the-first-letter-of-your-last-name-say-about-your-grades-a-lot-according-to-a-study","authors":["byline_mindshift_64821"],"categories":["mindshift_21504","mindshift_193"],"tags":["mindshift_20818","mindshift_21443"],"featImg":"mindshift_64823","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_64818":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_64818","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"mindshift","id":"64818","score":null,"sort":[1728140037000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-to-raise-a-well-adjusted-adult","title":"How To Raise a Well-Adjusted Adult","publishDate":1728140037,"format":"standard","headTitle":"How To Raise a Well-Adjusted Adult | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>When you are in the trenches of parenthood, it is easy to forget that the ultimate goal is to raise well-adjusted, happy, fully-formed adults. This goalpost may seem far away and abstract, particularly for those of us with young children, and it can be so easy to focus only on the strategies we need to get us through our everyday lives. However, it is nice to zoom out occasionally and consider the bigger picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So can research give us any insight here? Can we look at well-functioning adults and figure out what their parents did “right” and “wrong”? Well, researchers have done just that by following people from childhood to adulthood and looking at the parenting practices that are associated with “psychological well-being” in adulthood. Psychological well-being is a measure of life satisfaction and psychological health that includes personal growth, self-acceptance and having purpose in life (translation: how well-adjusted you are). I think we can all agree that this is something that we would want for our children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two relatively large studies (see \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3204412/\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17439760.2015.1081971\">here\u003c/a>) have found two parenting factors that are associated with psychological well-being as adults:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>High levels of parental care\u003c/strong>: Parental care refers to a warm and loving relationship with parents. Parental care has been linked to having positive relationships later in life. This may be because the parent-child relationship provides a template for healthy relationships for their children.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Low levels of psychological control:\u003c/strong> Psychological control is a parenting approach that involves trying to control your child’s thoughts and feelings. This may involve inducing guilt, manipulating your child to feel or think the way you want them to, shaming, invalidation, personal attacks, or withdrawing affection when your child doesn’t share your thoughts or feelings. Psychological control can be contrasted with behavioral control, which simply means putting limits on your child’s behavior. Psychological control is typically linked to worse psychological outcomes while behavioral control is linked to better outcomes\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What does parental care actually look like in practice? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Being affectionate (both physically and verbally) (see this \u003ca href=\"https://parentingtranslator.substack.com/p/parenting-hack-activate-your-childs\">previous newsletter \u003c/a>for tips on being more affectionate)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Listening to and truly seeking to understand your child’s problems and worries\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Using a warm and friendly voice with them and showing them positive emotions\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Praising them and giving them positive attention whenever possible\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Showing your children that you enjoy spending time with them and are interested in what they have to say\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Helping them to feel better when they are upset\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Making them feel valued and important\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do low levels of psychological control look like in practice? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Encouraging your child’s increasing independence from you\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Letting them know that you trust them\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Allowing them to make decisions on their own whenever possible\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Validating their emotions even when you aren’t experiencing the same emotions\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Asking about their thoughts and opinions and really listening to what they say\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Allowing them to explore their own interests and passions\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Overall Translation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most well-adjusted adults are more likely to have had parents that were loving and warm and did not try to control their thoughts and feelings. These studies are only correlational, so we do not know whether parental care and psychological control actually cause children to grow into well-adjusted adults or were simply associated with this outcome. However, these studies are some of the best evidence that we currently have for understanding how parenting impacts well-being in adulthood. Although these concepts can seem very complicated, it really boils down to simply showing your child love and allowing them the space to have their own thoughts and feelings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Cara Goodwin, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, a mother of four and the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://parentingtranslator.substack.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parenting Translator\u003c/a>, a nonprofit newsletter that turns scientific research into information that is accurate, relevant and useful for parents.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Making sure a child feels heard can help with their path to a well-adjusted adulthood; shaming and invalidation does not. 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This goalpost may seem far away and abstract, particularly for those of us with young children, and it can be so easy to focus only on the strategies we need to get us through our everyday lives. However, it is nice to zoom out occasionally and consider the bigger picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So can research give us any insight here? Can we look at well-functioning adults and figure out what their parents did “right” and “wrong”? Well, researchers have done just that by following people from childhood to adulthood and looking at the parenting practices that are associated with “psychological well-being” in adulthood. Psychological well-being is a measure of life satisfaction and psychological health that includes personal growth, self-acceptance and having purpose in life (translation: how well-adjusted you are). I think we can all agree that this is something that we would want for our children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two relatively large studies (see \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3204412/\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17439760.2015.1081971\">here\u003c/a>) have found two parenting factors that are associated with psychological well-being as adults:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>High levels of parental care\u003c/strong>: Parental care refers to a warm and loving relationship with parents. Parental care has been linked to having positive relationships later in life. This may be because the parent-child relationship provides a template for healthy relationships for their children.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Low levels of psychological control:\u003c/strong> Psychological control is a parenting approach that involves trying to control your child’s thoughts and feelings. This may involve inducing guilt, manipulating your child to feel or think the way you want them to, shaming, invalidation, personal attacks, or withdrawing affection when your child doesn’t share your thoughts or feelings. Psychological control can be contrasted with behavioral control, which simply means putting limits on your child’s behavior. Psychological control is typically linked to worse psychological outcomes while behavioral control is linked to better outcomes\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What does parental care actually look like in practice? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Being affectionate (both physically and verbally) (see this \u003ca href=\"https://parentingtranslator.substack.com/p/parenting-hack-activate-your-childs\">previous newsletter \u003c/a>for tips on being more affectionate)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Listening to and truly seeking to understand your child’s problems and worries\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Using a warm and friendly voice with them and showing them positive emotions\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Praising them and giving them positive attention whenever possible\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Showing your children that you enjoy spending time with them and are interested in what they have to say\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Helping them to feel better when they are upset\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Making them feel valued and important\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do low levels of psychological control look like in practice? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Encouraging your child’s increasing independence from you\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Letting them know that you trust them\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Allowing them to make decisions on their own whenever possible\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Validating their emotions even when you aren’t experiencing the same emotions\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Asking about their thoughts and opinions and really listening to what they say\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Allowing them to explore their own interests and passions\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Overall Translation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most well-adjusted adults are more likely to have had parents that were loving and warm and did not try to control their thoughts and feelings. These studies are only correlational, so we do not know whether parental care and psychological control actually cause children to grow into well-adjusted adults or were simply associated with this outcome. However, these studies are some of the best evidence that we currently have for understanding how parenting impacts well-being in adulthood. Although these concepts can seem very complicated, it really boils down to simply showing your child love and allowing them the space to have their own thoughts and feelings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Cara Goodwin, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, a mother of four and the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://parentingtranslator.substack.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parenting Translator\u003c/a>, a nonprofit newsletter that turns scientific research into information that is accurate, relevant and useful for parents.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/64818/how-to-raise-a-well-adjusted-adult","authors":["byline_mindshift_64818"],"categories":["mindshift_21385"],"tags":["mindshift_21603","mindshift_20870","mindshift_21706"],"featImg":"mindshift_64829","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_64798":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_64798","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"mindshift","id":"64798","score":null,"sort":[1727884914000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-hurried-child-syndrome-is-and-isnt","title":"What 'Hurried Child Syndrome' Is and Isn't","publishDate":1727884914,"format":"standard","headTitle":"What ‘Hurried Child Syndrome’ Is and Isn’t | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>The list of what we are not supposed to say as parents seems to be getting longer— first we were told we could not say “good job,” then “be careful” became off-limits. [For the record, I don’t think there is anything wrong with “good job” or “be careful”— except that these phrases are perhaps not specific enough to communicate most efficiently with your children.] Now the phrase “hurry up” has been effectively cancelled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent controversy over “hurry up” seems to stem from \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_uY-PSNOMX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">a post that went viral on Instagram\u003c/a> claiming that the \u003cb>#1 cause of anxiety in children is parents rushing them\u003c/b>. But almost any parent who has young children that go to school or participate in literally \u003ci>any \u003c/i>activity that happens at a certain time has probably tried to rush or hurry their child out the door. So is this a real concern or just another way to make parents feel guilty about very normal behavior?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because I am not one to let parent-shaming happen without at least challenging the source of the claims, I asked the psychologist who made these bold statements whether she could please send me a link to the research to which she was referring. She sent me this \u003ca href=\"https://www.paediatricnursing.net/article/view/11/1-2-3\">article\u003c/a>, which claims that hurried child syndrome leads to stress and depression but does not cite any actual research but only cites other articles on hurried child syndrome that are also not based in any actual research. Furthermore, hurried child syndrome, as described in this article, seems to be a different and broader concept than simply rushing a child to get out the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>What is Hurried Child Syndrome?\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So where did this concept come from if it isn’t based in research? Psychologist Dr. David Elkins coined the term “hurried child syndrome” in his book, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Hurried-Child-25th-anniversary/dp/073821082X\">The Hurried Chil\u003c/a>d, which was originally published in 1981. According to Dr. Elkin, hurried child syndrome is when a child is pushed to grow up “too fast,” such as when a child is over-scheduled with extracurricular activities, pressured to achieve or expected to act older than they are. However, hurried child syndrome is not an official diagnosis used by mental health professionals and it seems to be a more theoretical concept.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>But Does Saying “Hurry Up” Actually Cause Anxiety? \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So hurried child syndrome seems to be a different concept than simply telling your child to “hurry up” occasionally, but you may still be wondering whether rushing causes anxiety in children. It seems possible that regularly rushing children may cause stress that then leads to more chronic anxiety. However, we currently have \u003ci>no\u003c/i> evidence that saying “hurry up” or rushing a child causes anxiety or any negative outcomes. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005796723001249\">Research\u003c/a> suggests that anxiety disorders in children are caused by both genetic and environmental factors (translation: both nature and nurture) and it is unlikely that one factor alone would cause an anxiety disorder. \u003ca href=\"https://weiszlab.fas.harvard.edu/files/jweisz/files/mcleod_wood_weisz_2007_clinc_psych_rev_anxiety.pdf\">Some research\u003c/a> has linked parents being overly controlling to anxiety in children. This might look like not allowing your child to make any choices during the getting ready process, not permitting them to have any control whatsoever over their schedule, or doing everything for your child. Yet, asking your child to hurry or rush doesn’t seem to be overly controlling or intrusive. More broadly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272735806001127\">research\u003c/a> finds that parenting only accounts for 4% of the variance in child anxiety, suggesting that your parenting decisions alone are unlikely to cause an anxiety disorder in your children.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Overall Translation\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We have no evidence that hurried child syndrome is a real concern for parents or that asking your child to “hurry up” causes anxiety. However, telling your child to “hurry up” may not be most effective strategy because it isn’t informative and doesn’t teach any skills. In addition, rushing may cause more immediate stress for both you and your child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what can you do when you feel the need to say “hurry up”?\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\u003cb>Be more specific\u003c/b>. There is nothing inherently wrong with saying “hurry up” or rushing your child. However, it does not provide them with information as to what they \u003ci>should \u003c/i>be doing. Although it may seem obvious to us as adults, it isn’t always obvious to kids. For example, instead of “hurry up,” you could say “walk to the car please.” One of my colleagues, \u003ca href=\"https://themompsychologist.com/2023/10/05/what-to-say-instead-of-hurry-up/\">The Mom Psychologis\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://themompsychologist.com/2023/10/05/what-to-say-instead-of-hurry-up/\">t\u003c/a>, recommends that parents give one or two words to tell kids what they need to do such as “shoes” or “breakfast” and I agree that limiting the language can be very helpful for overwhelmed parents and children in these situations\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\u003cb>Help your children to develop time management skills\u003c/b>. Give children a sense of time through timers (visual timers such as the Time Timer can be particularly useful), songs, or other concrete ways of explaining length of time. One of our goals as parents is to teach children to ultimately manage their own time.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\u003cb>Allow more than enough time\u003c/b>. Everything with kids takes longer than you think and a lot of our time pressure is self-induced because we do not allow enough time (and trust me when I say that I know how hard this is— I am guilty of this at least once per day). Instead, aim to be ready 15 minutes before you have to leave, so when the inevitable diaper blowout or missing shoes happen, you won’t stress about being late!\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\u003cb>Let them face natural consequences of being late\u003c/b>. This isn’t always possible but try to let your children face the natural consequences of being late whenever you can. Of course you would not want to let your child arrive late for school every day but if you are going somewhere that your child is motivated to arrive on time, such as a birthday party or a movie, allow them to face the natural consequences of being late which might mean they miss some or all of the event. Of course, it is only fair to give them a warning (such as, “I’m going to set a timer for 5 minutes and if we don’t leave before the timer goes off, you will miss some of the movie.”)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\u003cb>Manage your own anxiety when you are running lat\u003c/b>\u003cstrong>e\u003c/strong>. Running late is a common trigger for anxiety in parents and it makes sense because there are real implications for being late as an adult. If you arrived late everyday for work, you would probably lose your job, or at least the respect of your co-workers. Your rising anxiety may be compounded by children who are moving unimaginably slow. However, as you might know from experience, being anxious yourself or losing your cool will only make the situation worse. Stay calm by using coping skills such as deep breathing and self-talk (such as telling yourself “this is not an emergency” or “this isn’t worth losing my peace over”).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Cara Goodwin, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, a mother of four and the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://parentingtranslator.substack.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parenting Translator\u003c/a>, a nonprofit newsletter that turns scientific research into information that is accurate, relevant and useful for parents.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Telling a child to \"hurry up\" is not the same as having a \"hurried child.\" Cara Goodwin debunks some misunderstandings and shares better ways to communicate with a child. 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[For the record, I don’t think there is anything wrong with “good job” or “be careful”— except that these phrases are perhaps not specific enough to communicate most efficiently with your children.] Now the phrase “hurry up” has been effectively cancelled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent controversy over “hurry up” seems to stem from \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_uY-PSNOMX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">a post that went viral on Instagram\u003c/a> claiming that the \u003cb>#1 cause of anxiety in children is parents rushing them\u003c/b>. But almost any parent who has young children that go to school or participate in literally \u003ci>any \u003c/i>activity that happens at a certain time has probably tried to rush or hurry their child out the door. So is this a real concern or just another way to make parents feel guilty about very normal behavior?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because I am not one to let parent-shaming happen without at least challenging the source of the claims, I asked the psychologist who made these bold statements whether she could please send me a link to the research to which she was referring. She sent me this \u003ca href=\"https://www.paediatricnursing.net/article/view/11/1-2-3\">article\u003c/a>, which claims that hurried child syndrome leads to stress and depression but does not cite any actual research but only cites other articles on hurried child syndrome that are also not based in any actual research. Furthermore, hurried child syndrome, as described in this article, seems to be a different and broader concept than simply rushing a child to get out the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>What is Hurried Child Syndrome?\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So where did this concept come from if it isn’t based in research? Psychologist Dr. David Elkins coined the term “hurried child syndrome” in his book, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Hurried-Child-25th-anniversary/dp/073821082X\">The Hurried Chil\u003c/a>d, which was originally published in 1981. According to Dr. Elkin, hurried child syndrome is when a child is pushed to grow up “too fast,” such as when a child is over-scheduled with extracurricular activities, pressured to achieve or expected to act older than they are. However, hurried child syndrome is not an official diagnosis used by mental health professionals and it seems to be a more theoretical concept.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>But Does Saying “Hurry Up” Actually Cause Anxiety? \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So hurried child syndrome seems to be a different concept than simply telling your child to “hurry up” occasionally, but you may still be wondering whether rushing causes anxiety in children. It seems possible that regularly rushing children may cause stress that then leads to more chronic anxiety. However, we currently have \u003ci>no\u003c/i> evidence that saying “hurry up” or rushing a child causes anxiety or any negative outcomes. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005796723001249\">Research\u003c/a> suggests that anxiety disorders in children are caused by both genetic and environmental factors (translation: both nature and nurture) and it is unlikely that one factor alone would cause an anxiety disorder. \u003ca href=\"https://weiszlab.fas.harvard.edu/files/jweisz/files/mcleod_wood_weisz_2007_clinc_psych_rev_anxiety.pdf\">Some research\u003c/a> has linked parents being overly controlling to anxiety in children. This might look like not allowing your child to make any choices during the getting ready process, not permitting them to have any control whatsoever over their schedule, or doing everything for your child. Yet, asking your child to hurry or rush doesn’t seem to be overly controlling or intrusive. More broadly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272735806001127\">research\u003c/a> finds that parenting only accounts for 4% of the variance in child anxiety, suggesting that your parenting decisions alone are unlikely to cause an anxiety disorder in your children.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Overall Translation\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We have no evidence that hurried child syndrome is a real concern for parents or that asking your child to “hurry up” causes anxiety. However, telling your child to “hurry up” may not be most effective strategy because it isn’t informative and doesn’t teach any skills. In addition, rushing may cause more immediate stress for both you and your child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what can you do when you feel the need to say “hurry up”?\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\u003cb>Be more specific\u003c/b>. There is nothing inherently wrong with saying “hurry up” or rushing your child. However, it does not provide them with information as to what they \u003ci>should \u003c/i>be doing. Although it may seem obvious to us as adults, it isn’t always obvious to kids. For example, instead of “hurry up,” you could say “walk to the car please.” One of my colleagues, \u003ca href=\"https://themompsychologist.com/2023/10/05/what-to-say-instead-of-hurry-up/\">The Mom Psychologis\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://themompsychologist.com/2023/10/05/what-to-say-instead-of-hurry-up/\">t\u003c/a>, recommends that parents give one or two words to tell kids what they need to do such as “shoes” or “breakfast” and I agree that limiting the language can be very helpful for overwhelmed parents and children in these situations\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\u003cb>Help your children to develop time management skills\u003c/b>. Give children a sense of time through timers (visual timers such as the Time Timer can be particularly useful), songs, or other concrete ways of explaining length of time. One of our goals as parents is to teach children to ultimately manage their own time.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\u003cb>Allow more than enough time\u003c/b>. Everything with kids takes longer than you think and a lot of our time pressure is self-induced because we do not allow enough time (and trust me when I say that I know how hard this is— I am guilty of this at least once per day). Instead, aim to be ready 15 minutes before you have to leave, so when the inevitable diaper blowout or missing shoes happen, you won’t stress about being late!\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\u003cb>Let them face natural consequences of being late\u003c/b>. This isn’t always possible but try to let your children face the natural consequences of being late whenever you can. Of course you would not want to let your child arrive late for school every day but if you are going somewhere that your child is motivated to arrive on time, such as a birthday party or a movie, allow them to face the natural consequences of being late which might mean they miss some or all of the event. Of course, it is only fair to give them a warning (such as, “I’m going to set a timer for 5 minutes and if we don’t leave before the timer goes off, you will miss some of the movie.”)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\u003cb>Manage your own anxiety when you are running lat\u003c/b>\u003cstrong>e\u003c/strong>. Running late is a common trigger for anxiety in parents and it makes sense because there are real implications for being late as an adult. If you arrived late everyday for work, you would probably lose your job, or at least the respect of your co-workers. Your rising anxiety may be compounded by children who are moving unimaginably slow. However, as you might know from experience, being anxious yourself or losing your cool will only make the situation worse. Stay calm by using coping skills such as deep breathing and self-talk (such as telling yourself “this is not an emergency” or “this isn’t worth losing my peace over”).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Cara Goodwin, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, a mother of four and the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://parentingtranslator.substack.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parenting Translator\u003c/a>, a nonprofit newsletter that turns scientific research into information that is accurate, relevant and useful for parents.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/64798/what-hurried-child-syndrome-is-and-isnt","authors":["byline_mindshift_64798"],"categories":["mindshift_21385"],"tags":["mindshift_21827","mindshift_20870","mindshift_21706","mindshift_21190"],"featImg":"mindshift_64813","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_64796":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_64796","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"mindshift","id":"64796","score":null,"sort":[1727776729000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-climate-education-based-on-action-can-help-youth-be-part-of-the-progress","title":"How Climate Education Based on Action Can Help Youth Be Part of the Progress","publishDate":1727776729,"format":"standard","headTitle":"How Climate Education Based on Action Can Help Youth Be Part of the Progress | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This column about \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/column-education-that-convinces-kids-the-world-isnt-doomed/\">\u003cem>climate literacy\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/climate-change/\">\u003cem>Hechinger climate change and education newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until she was nine years old, Aisha O’Neil grew up in Zion National Park, where her father was a ranger. “That place raised me just as much as my family,” she said. Her love of the park’s sandstone cliffs and caverns became the bedrock of her passion for the environment, and for securing a future where her own children could enjoy the same experiences that she did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But O’Neil never learned much about climate change in school. What she did learn came from the news, and it was “dramatically horrifying,” she said. “I started seeing articles every day — this city’s on fire, these people were evacuated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a senior in high school last year, in rural Durango, Colorado, O’Neil started a statewide climate action group called Good Trouble. She and fellow students campaigned for state legislation to create a “seal of climate literacy” that high school graduates across Colorado could earn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks in part to their lobbying, \u003ca href=\"https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-014\">the \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-014\">bill\u003c/a> passed with bipartisan support, and O’Neil became part of the first group of students to earn the seal on her diploma this spring. “An education without referencing climate change is not complete,” she said. “You can’t say you’re educating kids about our future without telling them what that future will look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just what is “climate literacy”? What are the ABCs, the grammar and vocabulary, of climate change?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.N. and other leading global organizations have identified education at all levels and across disciplines as a key strategy for fighting the climate crisis. The world is going through a historically rapid transition to clean energy and sustainable infrastructure, and the \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/column-new-climate-legislation-could-create-9-million-jobs-who-will-fill-them/\">workforce is thirsty for people with the skills to do the necessary climate mitigation and adaptation work\u003c/a>. Communities also need empowered citizens to push back against fossil fuel interests. But as of now, few states have comprehensive climate education, and most of the lessons that exist are confined to science classes — lacking in areas like justice and solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado’s seal of climate literacy, which high school graduates can earn through a combination of coursework and out-of-school projects, is one attempt to build support for more comprehensive climate education. Another attempt was on display in late September. The U.S. Global Change Research Program, with input from agencies including the State Department, NASA and the Department of Transportation, released a document called \u003ca href=\"https://downloads.globalchange.gov/Literacy/Climate-Literacy-Guide-2024.pdf\">“Climate Literacy: Essential Principles for Understanding and Addressing Climate Change.” \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The definition of climate literacy its authors arrived at, after 21 months of work, includes eight essential principles that I’m summarizing here:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>How we know: climate science, interdisciplinary observations and modeling\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Climate change: greenhouse gases shape Earth’s climate\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Causes: burning fossil fuels and other human activities\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Impacts: threats to human life and ecological systems\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Equity: climate justice\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Adaptation: social, built, natural environments\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mitigation: reducing emissions, net zero by 2050\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hope and urgency: “A livable and sustainable future for all is possible with rapid, just, and transformational climate action.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>During Climate Week NYC, dozens of educators crowded into a basement room beneath the grand marble Museum of the American Indian, in downtown Manhattan, to hear about the new guide. Standing at the front of the room was Frank Niepold, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He has been engaged in climate education within the federal government for 30 years, and he’s been as involved as anyone in helping this effort see the light of day. “This is a guide for educators, communicators and decision makers,” he said. “We’re not just talking to classroom teachers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This guide is technically a third edition. The first one appeared in 2008, during the George W. Bush administration; it was rapidly updated in 2009 when President Barack Obama took office. Then came the Trump administration, and, in Niepold’s words, the thinking was, “Don’t try to do this really complicated thing at that time.” Efforts restarted after Joe Biden was elected president, many new staffers who came in as part of the Inflation Reduction Act provided input to the new guide— and now here we are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Niepold said that since the 2000s, there’s been a lot of evolution in our collective understanding of both the problem and the solutions. “Before, the document was called ‘essential principles of climate science literacy,’” he said. “We knew that was too narrow. We wanted something that gets you into an action, not just an understanding orientation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, earlier editions of the document were influential: They informed the Next Generation Science Standards, some version of which is now in use in 48 states. The previous guide was also incorporated into K-12 and college curricula and into museum and park exhibits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the new edition, Niepold hopes to see even more impact. The guide is unusually clear and accessible for a government report. The pages are laid out like a textbook, featuring artwork that depicts some of the core themes of climate literacy — as defined in the report – like climate justice and traditional and Indigenous knowledges (the plural s is intentional).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Success means it would activate all forms of education, all stages, across all disciplines,” and outside the United States as well as within it, Niepold said. He wants to see more prominent NGOs taking on climate education as part of their purview — such as Planet Ed at the Aspen Institute, where, disclosure, I’m an advisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Niepold would like to see community-based climate efforts take public communication and workforce development seriously, and to see media coverage promote a fuller picture of climate literacy as well. “Success is: People, regardless of where they’re coming from, understand [climate change] and address it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His concern is similar to that of Aisha O’Neil in Colorado: that young people are currently learning about climate change primarily through the media, in a way that’s not solution-oriented, emotionally supportive, or trauma-informed. “That opportunity to be blindsided is high,” Niepold said. That’s why the guideline’s eighth principle unites urgency with hope. Said O’Neil:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being taught about issues in a way that emphasizes solutions is telling our youth that they can be part of progress and that the world isn’t doomed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upgrading lessons to meet the moment is taking time. Even in New Jersey, \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/one-state-mandates-teaching-climate-change-in-almost-all-subjects-even-pe/\">known as a national leader for its comprehensive state-level climate education standards\u003c/a>, teachers have shared concern about a lack of resources for implementation and training. Mary Seawell, whose organization Lyra campaigned for the climate literacy seal in Colorado, said her group wanted to take a grassroots, student-led approach. “We want to show demand. What the seal really is doing is creating an opportunity for youth to direct their own learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to earn the seal of climate literacy, Colorado students have to take at least one science class in high school — which currently is not a general graduation requirement — and at least one other class that satisfies principles of climate literacy. They also have to engage in some kind of out-of-school learning or action. “This is opt-in,” said Colorado state Sen. Chris Hansen, who co-sponsored the legislation. “The state can’t tell districts what classes to offer. This is for districts that want to have something that is easily recognizable across the state and beyond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neil, now a freshman at University of Colorado Boulder, said it’s a good start. Her student group at the college is campaigning for new state curriculum standards. “This is the only logical next move. “ she said. Although the climate seal of literacy encourages climate learning, “we need everyone to be educated, not just the ones who go out of their way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neil thinks students could especially use tutelage on taking climate action, something she has had to figure out on her own, with some mentorship from her debate coach and from a state legislator. Planet Ed, for one, has just released a\u003ca href=\"https://www.thisisplaneted.org/img/YCAT.pdf\"> Youth Climate Action Guide \u003c/a>with the Nature Conservancy that engages many areas of climate literacy, from mitigation to adaptation to justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like in an ideal world we would learn how climate impacts every element of our lives,” O’Neil said. “Not just the science, but social justice. Policy positions that have created it, and policies that can get us out. My goal right now would be to have students get to a place where they feel like they aren’t terrified by the climate crisis, but empowered by it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Contact the editor of this story, Caroline Preston, at 212-870-8965 or \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"mailto:preston@hechingerreport.org\">\u003cem>preston@hechingerreport.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This column about \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/column-education-that-convinces-kids-the-world-isnt-doomed/\">\u003cem>climate literacy\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/climate-change/\">\u003cem>Hechinger climate change and education newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Recognizing that students need to know more about climate change than just the science, dozens of federal agencies released a major new guide on ‘climate literacy,’ and one state, Colorado, inaugurated a ‘seal of climate literacy’ for high school diplomas. 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Sign up for the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/climate-change/\">\u003cem>Hechinger climate change and education newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until she was nine years old, Aisha O’Neil grew up in Zion National Park, where her father was a ranger. “That place raised me just as much as my family,” she said. Her love of the park’s sandstone cliffs and caverns became the bedrock of her passion for the environment, and for securing a future where her own children could enjoy the same experiences that she did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But O’Neil never learned much about climate change in school. What she did learn came from the news, and it was “dramatically horrifying,” she said. “I started seeing articles every day — this city’s on fire, these people were evacuated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a senior in high school last year, in rural Durango, Colorado, O’Neil started a statewide climate action group called Good Trouble. She and fellow students campaigned for state legislation to create a “seal of climate literacy” that high school graduates across Colorado could earn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks in part to their lobbying, \u003ca href=\"https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-014\">the \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-014\">bill\u003c/a> passed with bipartisan support, and O’Neil became part of the first group of students to earn the seal on her diploma this spring. “An education without referencing climate change is not complete,” she said. “You can’t say you’re educating kids about our future without telling them what that future will look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just what is “climate literacy”? What are the ABCs, the grammar and vocabulary, of climate change?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.N. and other leading global organizations have identified education at all levels and across disciplines as a key strategy for fighting the climate crisis. The world is going through a historically rapid transition to clean energy and sustainable infrastructure, and the \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/column-new-climate-legislation-could-create-9-million-jobs-who-will-fill-them/\">workforce is thirsty for people with the skills to do the necessary climate mitigation and adaptation work\u003c/a>. Communities also need empowered citizens to push back against fossil fuel interests. But as of now, few states have comprehensive climate education, and most of the lessons that exist are confined to science classes — lacking in areas like justice and solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado’s seal of climate literacy, which high school graduates can earn through a combination of coursework and out-of-school projects, is one attempt to build support for more comprehensive climate education. Another attempt was on display in late September. The U.S. Global Change Research Program, with input from agencies including the State Department, NASA and the Department of Transportation, released a document called \u003ca href=\"https://downloads.globalchange.gov/Literacy/Climate-Literacy-Guide-2024.pdf\">“Climate Literacy: Essential Principles for Understanding and Addressing Climate Change.” \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The definition of climate literacy its authors arrived at, after 21 months of work, includes eight essential principles that I’m summarizing here:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>How we know: climate science, interdisciplinary observations and modeling\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Climate change: greenhouse gases shape Earth’s climate\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Causes: burning fossil fuels and other human activities\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Impacts: threats to human life and ecological systems\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Equity: climate justice\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Adaptation: social, built, natural environments\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mitigation: reducing emissions, net zero by 2050\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hope and urgency: “A livable and sustainable future for all is possible with rapid, just, and transformational climate action.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>During Climate Week NYC, dozens of educators crowded into a basement room beneath the grand marble Museum of the American Indian, in downtown Manhattan, to hear about the new guide. Standing at the front of the room was Frank Niepold, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He has been engaged in climate education within the federal government for 30 years, and he’s been as involved as anyone in helping this effort see the light of day. “This is a guide for educators, communicators and decision makers,” he said. “We’re not just talking to classroom teachers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This guide is technically a third edition. The first one appeared in 2008, during the George W. Bush administration; it was rapidly updated in 2009 when President Barack Obama took office. Then came the Trump administration, and, in Niepold’s words, the thinking was, “Don’t try to do this really complicated thing at that time.” Efforts restarted after Joe Biden was elected president, many new staffers who came in as part of the Inflation Reduction Act provided input to the new guide— and now here we are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Niepold said that since the 2000s, there’s been a lot of evolution in our collective understanding of both the problem and the solutions. “Before, the document was called ‘essential principles of climate science literacy,’” he said. “We knew that was too narrow. We wanted something that gets you into an action, not just an understanding orientation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, earlier editions of the document were influential: They informed the Next Generation Science Standards, some version of which is now in use in 48 states. The previous guide was also incorporated into K-12 and college curricula and into museum and park exhibits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the new edition, Niepold hopes to see even more impact. The guide is unusually clear and accessible for a government report. The pages are laid out like a textbook, featuring artwork that depicts some of the core themes of climate literacy — as defined in the report – like climate justice and traditional and Indigenous knowledges (the plural s is intentional).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Success means it would activate all forms of education, all stages, across all disciplines,” and outside the United States as well as within it, Niepold said. He wants to see more prominent NGOs taking on climate education as part of their purview — such as Planet Ed at the Aspen Institute, where, disclosure, I’m an advisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Niepold would like to see community-based climate efforts take public communication and workforce development seriously, and to see media coverage promote a fuller picture of climate literacy as well. “Success is: People, regardless of where they’re coming from, understand [climate change] and address it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His concern is similar to that of Aisha O’Neil in Colorado: that young people are currently learning about climate change primarily through the media, in a way that’s not solution-oriented, emotionally supportive, or trauma-informed. “That opportunity to be blindsided is high,” Niepold said. That’s why the guideline’s eighth principle unites urgency with hope. Said O’Neil:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being taught about issues in a way that emphasizes solutions is telling our youth that they can be part of progress and that the world isn’t doomed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upgrading lessons to meet the moment is taking time. Even in New Jersey, \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/one-state-mandates-teaching-climate-change-in-almost-all-subjects-even-pe/\">known as a national leader for its comprehensive state-level climate education standards\u003c/a>, teachers have shared concern about a lack of resources for implementation and training. Mary Seawell, whose organization Lyra campaigned for the climate literacy seal in Colorado, said her group wanted to take a grassroots, student-led approach. “We want to show demand. What the seal really is doing is creating an opportunity for youth to direct their own learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to earn the seal of climate literacy, Colorado students have to take at least one science class in high school — which currently is not a general graduation requirement — and at least one other class that satisfies principles of climate literacy. They also have to engage in some kind of out-of-school learning or action. “This is opt-in,” said Colorado state Sen. Chris Hansen, who co-sponsored the legislation. “The state can’t tell districts what classes to offer. This is for districts that want to have something that is easily recognizable across the state and beyond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neil, now a freshman at University of Colorado Boulder, said it’s a good start. Her student group at the college is campaigning for new state curriculum standards. “This is the only logical next move. “ she said. Although the climate seal of literacy encourages climate learning, “we need everyone to be educated, not just the ones who go out of their way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neil thinks students could especially use tutelage on taking climate action, something she has had to figure out on her own, with some mentorship from her debate coach and from a state legislator. Planet Ed, for one, has just released a\u003ca href=\"https://www.thisisplaneted.org/img/YCAT.pdf\"> Youth Climate Action Guide \u003c/a>with the Nature Conservancy that engages many areas of climate literacy, from mitigation to adaptation to justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like in an ideal world we would learn how climate impacts every element of our lives,” O’Neil said. “Not just the science, but social justice. Policy positions that have created it, and policies that can get us out. My goal right now would be to have students get to a place where they feel like they aren’t terrified by the climate crisis, but empowered by it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Contact the editor of this story, Caroline Preston, at 212-870-8965 or \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"mailto:preston@hechingerreport.org\">\u003cem>preston@hechingerreport.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This column about \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/column-education-that-convinces-kids-the-world-isnt-doomed/\">\u003cem>climate literacy\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/climate-change/\">\u003cem>Hechinger climate change and education newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/64796/how-climate-education-based-on-action-can-help-youth-be-part-of-the-progress","authors":["byline_mindshift_64796"],"categories":["mindshift_21508"],"tags":["mindshift_21757","mindshift_21592","mindshift_21463"],"featImg":"mindshift_64802","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_64787":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_64787","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"mindshift","id":"64787","score":null,"sort":[1727690536000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-habits-of-7-highly-effective-schools","title":"The Habits of 7 Highly Effective Schools","publishDate":1727690536,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The Habits of 7 Highly Effective Schools | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":21847,"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>Everybody is trying to find ways to help students catch up after the pandemic. One \u003ca href=\"https://tntp.org/publication/the-opportunity-makers/\">new data analysis\u003c/a> suggests some promising ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://tntp.org/\">TNTP\u003c/a>, a nonprofit based in New York that advocates for improving K-12 education, wanted to identify schools that are the most effective at helping kids recover academically and understand what those schools are doing differently. These are not schools where students post the highest test scores, but schools where kids learn more each school year than students typically do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TNTP researchers plunged into a giant pool of data housed at \u003ca href=\"https://edopportunity.org/\">Stanford University \u003c/a> that tracked hundreds of millions of students’ scores on state tests at more than half the elementary and middle schools in the nation from 2009 to 2018. The researchers found that at 28,000 of the 51,000 elementary and middle schools in the database, students entered third grade or middle school below grade level. TNTP calculated that the top 5 percent of these start-behind schools – 1,345 of them – were helping students learn at least 1.3 year’s worth of material every year, based on how test scores improved as students progressed from grade to grade. In other words, the students at the top 5 percent of the start-behind schools learned the equivalent of an extra full year or more of math and reading every three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing at this rate allows most students to catch up to grade level during their time in school,” concluded the \u003ca href=\"https://tntp.org/publication/the-opportunity-makers/\">report\u003c/a>, which was released in September 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previous researchers conducted a similar analysis in \u003ca href=\"https://cepa.stanford.edu/content/educational-opportunity-early-and-middle-childhood-using-full-population-administrative-data-study-variation-place-and-age\">2017 with whole school districts\u003c/a> instead of individual schools. In that study, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/05/upshot/a-better-way-to-compare-public-schools.html\">Chicago emerged as\u003c/a> the nation’s most effective school district. Like the schools in the 2024 analysis, Chicago didn’t post the highest test scores, but its students were progressing the most each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many schools that are effective at helping students learn, even in high-poverty communities,” said Sean Reardon, a Stanford sociologist who was part of the team that developed the Stanford Education Data Archive. “The TNTP report uses our data to identify some of them and then digs in to understand what makes them particularly effective. This is exactly what we hoped people would do with the data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TNTP did identify seven of the 1,345 highly effective schools that it selected to study in depth. Only one of the seven schools had a majority Black population, reflecting the fact that Black students are underrepresented at the most effective schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven schools ranged widely. Some were large. Some were small. Some were city schools with many Hispanic students. Others were mostly white, rural schools. They used different instructional materials and did a lot of things differently, but TNTP teased out three traits that it thought these schools had in common.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Seven of the 1,345 schools where students started behind but made large learning gains over a decade from 2009 to 2018\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 977px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-64791 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/TNTP-Map.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"977\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/TNTP-Map.png 977w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/TNTP-Map-800x334.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/TNTP-Map-160x67.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/TNTP-Map-768x321.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 977px) 100vw, 977px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red dots represent the seven schools that TNTP named and studied in depth. Green dots represent all 1,345 schools that TNTP identified as producing large annual gains in learning for students who entered school behind grade level. Source: TNTP Opportunity Makers report 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What we found was not a silver-bullet solution, a perfect curriculum, or a rockstar principal,” the report said. “Instead, these schools shared a commitment to doing three core things well: they create a culture of belonging, deliver consistent grade-level instruction, and build a coherent instructional program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to TNTP’s classroom observations, students received good or strong instruction in nine out of 10 classrooms. “Across all classrooms, the steady accumulation of good lessons—not unattainably perfect ones—sets trajectory-changing schools apart,” the report said, contrasting this consistent level of “good” with \u003ca href=\"https://opportunitymyth.tntp.org/\">its earlier observation\u003c/a> that most U.S. schools have some good teaching, but there is a lot of variation from one classroom to the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to good instruction, TNTP said that students in these seven schools were receiving grade-level content in their English and math classes although most students were behind. Teachers in each school used the same shared curriculum. According to the TNTP report, only about a third of elementary school teachers nationwide say they “mostly use” the curriculum adopted by their school. At Trousdale County Elementary in Tennessee, one of the exemplar schools, 80 percent of teachers said they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many education advocates are pushing for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aei.org/events/the-case-for-curriculum-reform/\">adoption of better curriculum as a lever to improve schools\u003c/a>, “It’s possible to get trajectory-changing results without a perfect curriculum,” TNTP wrote in its report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers also had regular, scheduled sessions to collaborate, discuss their instruction, and note what did and did not work. “Everyone holds the same high expectations and works together to improve,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The schools also gave students extra instruction to fill knowledge gaps and extra practice to solidify their skills. These extra support classes, called “intervention blocks,” are now commonplace at many low-income schools, but TNTP noted one major difference at the seven schools they studied. The intervention blocks were connected to what students were learning in their main classrooms. That requires school leaders to make sure that interventionists, classroom aides and the main classroom teachers have time to talk and collaborate during the school day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These seven schools all had strong principals. Although many of the principals came and left during the decade that TNTP studied, the schools maintained strong results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven schools also emphasized student-teacher relationships and built a caring community. At Brightwood, a small charter school in Washington, D.C., that serves an immigrant population, staff members try to learn the names of every student and to be collectively responsible for both their academics and well-being. During one staff meeting, teachers wrote more than 250 student names on giant pads of paper. Teachers put check marks by each child they felt like they had a genuine relationship with and then brainstormed ways to reach the students without checks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At New Heights Academy Charter School in New York City, each teacher contacts 10 parents a week—by text, email, or phone—and logs the calls in a journal. Teachers don’t just call when something goes wrong. They also reach out to parents to talk about an “A” on a test, academic improvement, or good attendance, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s always risky to highlight what successful schools are doing because other educators might be tempted to just copy ideas. But TNTP warns that every school is different. What works in one place might not in another. The organization’s advice for schools is to change one practice at a time, perhaps starting with a category that the school is already pretty good at, and improve it. TNTP warns against trying to change too many things at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TNTP’s view is that any school can become a highly effective school, and that there aren’t particular educational philosophies or materials that a school must use to accomplish this rare feat. A lot of it is simply about increasing communication among teachers, between teachers and students, and with families. It’s a bit like weight-loss diets that don’t dictate which foods you can and cannot eat, as long as you eat less and exercise more. It’s the basic principles that matter most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Contact staff writer \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/author/jill-barshay/\">\u003cem>Jill Barshay\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> at (212) 678-3595 or barshay@hechingerreport.org\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story about \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-tntp-effective-schools/\">\u003cem>how to catch up at school\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> was written by Jill Barshay and produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/higher-education/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proofpoints/\">\u003cem>Proof Points\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and other \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/newsletters/\">\u003cem>Hechinger newsletters\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Nonprofit counts more than 1,300 U.S. schools where students beat the odds.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1727481420,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":1335},"headData":{"title":"The Habits of 7 Highly Effective Schools | KQED","description":"Nonprofit counts more than 1,300 U.S. schools where students beat the odds.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"The Habits of 7 Highly Effective Schools","datePublished":"2024-09-30T03:02:16-07:00","dateModified":"2024-09-27T16:57:00-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Jill Barshay, The Hechinger Report","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"Yes","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/64787/the-habits-of-7-highly-effective-schools","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Everybody is trying to find ways to help students catch up after the pandemic. One \u003ca href=\"https://tntp.org/publication/the-opportunity-makers/\">new data analysis\u003c/a> suggests some promising ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://tntp.org/\">TNTP\u003c/a>, a nonprofit based in New York that advocates for improving K-12 education, wanted to identify schools that are the most effective at helping kids recover academically and understand what those schools are doing differently. These are not schools where students post the highest test scores, but schools where kids learn more each school year than students typically do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TNTP researchers plunged into a giant pool of data housed at \u003ca href=\"https://edopportunity.org/\">Stanford University \u003c/a> that tracked hundreds of millions of students’ scores on state tests at more than half the elementary and middle schools in the nation from 2009 to 2018. The researchers found that at 28,000 of the 51,000 elementary and middle schools in the database, students entered third grade or middle school below grade level. TNTP calculated that the top 5 percent of these start-behind schools – 1,345 of them – were helping students learn at least 1.3 year’s worth of material every year, based on how test scores improved as students progressed from grade to grade. In other words, the students at the top 5 percent of the start-behind schools learned the equivalent of an extra full year or more of math and reading every three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing at this rate allows most students to catch up to grade level during their time in school,” concluded the \u003ca href=\"https://tntp.org/publication/the-opportunity-makers/\">report\u003c/a>, which was released in September 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previous researchers conducted a similar analysis in \u003ca href=\"https://cepa.stanford.edu/content/educational-opportunity-early-and-middle-childhood-using-full-population-administrative-data-study-variation-place-and-age\">2017 with whole school districts\u003c/a> instead of individual schools. In that study, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/05/upshot/a-better-way-to-compare-public-schools.html\">Chicago emerged as\u003c/a> the nation’s most effective school district. Like the schools in the 2024 analysis, Chicago didn’t post the highest test scores, but its students were progressing the most each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many schools that are effective at helping students learn, even in high-poverty communities,” said Sean Reardon, a Stanford sociologist who was part of the team that developed the Stanford Education Data Archive. “The TNTP report uses our data to identify some of them and then digs in to understand what makes them particularly effective. This is exactly what we hoped people would do with the data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TNTP did identify seven of the 1,345 highly effective schools that it selected to study in depth. Only one of the seven schools had a majority Black population, reflecting the fact that Black students are underrepresented at the most effective schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven schools ranged widely. Some were large. Some were small. Some were city schools with many Hispanic students. Others were mostly white, rural schools. They used different instructional materials and did a lot of things differently, but TNTP teased out three traits that it thought these schools had in common.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Seven of the 1,345 schools where students started behind but made large learning gains over a decade from 2009 to 2018\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 977px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-64791 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/TNTP-Map.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"977\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/TNTP-Map.png 977w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/TNTP-Map-800x334.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/TNTP-Map-160x67.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/TNTP-Map-768x321.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 977px) 100vw, 977px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red dots represent the seven schools that TNTP named and studied in depth. Green dots represent all 1,345 schools that TNTP identified as producing large annual gains in learning for students who entered school behind grade level. Source: TNTP Opportunity Makers report 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What we found was not a silver-bullet solution, a perfect curriculum, or a rockstar principal,” the report said. “Instead, these schools shared a commitment to doing three core things well: they create a culture of belonging, deliver consistent grade-level instruction, and build a coherent instructional program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to TNTP’s classroom observations, students received good or strong instruction in nine out of 10 classrooms. “Across all classrooms, the steady accumulation of good lessons—not unattainably perfect ones—sets trajectory-changing schools apart,” the report said, contrasting this consistent level of “good” with \u003ca href=\"https://opportunitymyth.tntp.org/\">its earlier observation\u003c/a> that most U.S. schools have some good teaching, but there is a lot of variation from one classroom to the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to good instruction, TNTP said that students in these seven schools were receiving grade-level content in their English and math classes although most students were behind. Teachers in each school used the same shared curriculum. According to the TNTP report, only about a third of elementary school teachers nationwide say they “mostly use” the curriculum adopted by their school. At Trousdale County Elementary in Tennessee, one of the exemplar schools, 80 percent of teachers said they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many education advocates are pushing for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aei.org/events/the-case-for-curriculum-reform/\">adoption of better curriculum as a lever to improve schools\u003c/a>, “It’s possible to get trajectory-changing results without a perfect curriculum,” TNTP wrote in its report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers also had regular, scheduled sessions to collaborate, discuss their instruction, and note what did and did not work. “Everyone holds the same high expectations and works together to improve,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The schools also gave students extra instruction to fill knowledge gaps and extra practice to solidify their skills. These extra support classes, called “intervention blocks,” are now commonplace at many low-income schools, but TNTP noted one major difference at the seven schools they studied. The intervention blocks were connected to what students were learning in their main classrooms. That requires school leaders to make sure that interventionists, classroom aides and the main classroom teachers have time to talk and collaborate during the school day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These seven schools all had strong principals. Although many of the principals came and left during the decade that TNTP studied, the schools maintained strong results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven schools also emphasized student-teacher relationships and built a caring community. At Brightwood, a small charter school in Washington, D.C., that serves an immigrant population, staff members try to learn the names of every student and to be collectively responsible for both their academics and well-being. During one staff meeting, teachers wrote more than 250 student names on giant pads of paper. Teachers put check marks by each child they felt like they had a genuine relationship with and then brainstormed ways to reach the students without checks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At New Heights Academy Charter School in New York City, each teacher contacts 10 parents a week—by text, email, or phone—and logs the calls in a journal. Teachers don’t just call when something goes wrong. They also reach out to parents to talk about an “A” on a test, academic improvement, or good attendance, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s always risky to highlight what successful schools are doing because other educators might be tempted to just copy ideas. But TNTP warns that every school is different. What works in one place might not in another. The organization’s advice for schools is to change one practice at a time, perhaps starting with a category that the school is already pretty good at, and improve it. TNTP warns against trying to change too many things at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TNTP’s view is that any school can become a highly effective school, and that there aren’t particular educational philosophies or materials that a school must use to accomplish this rare feat. A lot of it is simply about increasing communication among teachers, between teachers and students, and with families. It’s a bit like weight-loss diets that don’t dictate which foods you can and cannot eat, as long as you eat less and exercise more. It’s the basic principles that matter most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Contact staff writer \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/author/jill-barshay/\">\u003cem>Jill Barshay\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> at (212) 678-3595 or barshay@hechingerreport.org\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story about \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-tntp-effective-schools/\">\u003cem>how to catch up at school\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> was written by Jill Barshay and produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/higher-education/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proofpoints/\">\u003cem>Proof Points\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and other \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/newsletters/\">\u003cem>Hechinger newsletters\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/64787/the-habits-of-7-highly-effective-schools","authors":["byline_mindshift_64787"],"programs":["mindshift_21847"],"categories":["mindshift_21504"],"tags":["mindshift_21186","mindshift_21269"],"featImg":"mindshift_64790","label":"mindshift_21847"},"mindshift_64706":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_64706","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"mindshift","id":"64706","score":null,"sort":[1727344834000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"tried-and-true-and-quick-methods-for-formative-assessment","title":"Tried and True — and Quick — Methods for Formative Assessment","publishDate":1727344834,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Tried and True — and Quick — Methods for Formative Assessment | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>From \u003ca href=\"https://ascd.org/books/small-but-mighty?variant=125003\">Small but Mighty: How Everyday Habits Add Up to More Manageable and Confident Teaching\u003c/a> (pp. 78-80), by M. Plotinsky, 2024, ASCD. Copyright 2024 by ASCD. Reprinted with permission.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the past several years, formative approaches have gained significant traction as a preferred method of assessment, thanks in large part to the ideology behind the practice. Not too long ago, students were taught material in classrooms, mainly via stand-and-deliver direct instruction, and were subsequently asked to demonstrate their learning in what is now called a summative or “high-stakes” assessment. In this model, it wasn’t just grades that were cast in stone once test results came back; there was also an assumption that students knew the material enough to move forward with new concepts and that anyone who was falling behind needed to either catch up or succumb to continued (perhaps permanent) struggle.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-64708\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/Bookcover6x9_DPI300-bookcover6x9-Small-but-Mighty-Plotinsky-160x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/Bookcover6x9_DPI300-bookcover6x9-Small-but-Mighty-Plotinsky-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/Bookcover6x9_DPI300-bookcover6x9-Small-but-Mighty-Plotinsky-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/Bookcover6x9_DPI300-bookcover6x9-Small-but-Mighty-Plotinsky-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/Bookcover6x9_DPI300-bookcover6x9-Small-but-Mighty-Plotinsky-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/Bookcover6x9_DPI300-bookcover6x9-Small-but-Mighty-Plotinsky-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/Bookcover6x9_DPI300-bookcover6x9-Small-but-Mighty-Plotinsky-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/Bookcover6x9_DPI300-bookcover6x9-Small-but-Mighty-Plotinsky.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">This sink-or-swim approach to education has lost popularity over time, particularly in the wake of both increased awareness of equity-driven instruction and amid the aftereffects of teaching and learning during the pandemic. Turning a blind eye to student struggle is harmful, and so is closing down opportunities for growth. Additionally, the idea of determining student achievement within any given content standard only at the close of a unit of instruction is fundamentally unsound. Ideally, teachers clear up confusion and check for understanding continuously throughout a unit of study.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pushback that leaders often encounter when they ask teachers to formatively assess students with more frequency is centered on a protectiveness around two rare commodities: time and bandwidth. How, teachers ask, can they possibly assess students with any frequency when the instructional period is short, when grading piles up, and when district leaders provide no extra time for planning or preparation?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The answer to a complex question can be startlingly simple, and that is true in this instance. Rather than think of formative assessment as a drawn-out process, it helps to focus on using tools that will tell us what we need to know quickly. The following assessment bank shares some tried-and-true methods of quickly gathering information about what students know and are able to do. Students can be asked to do any of the following:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Take a brief poll (one or two questions).\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Summarize the daily learning goal in one sentence.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Fill out an exit or entry ticket that shares a concept or presents an open-ended question.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Hold up color-coded cards (often red, yellow, and green to align with traffic lights) to indicate a level of understanding or confusion.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Reflect briefly (3−5 sentences) about a concept.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Complete the sentence stem: “I still don’t understand . . . .”\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Place questions that don’t need immediate attention into a communal “Parking Lot.”\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Put “Burning Questions” on the board to clear up more immediate confusion.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Draw an important concept instead of writing about it.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Take new learning and apply it to a different situation.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Create a short assessment for peers to complete.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Write a brief social media-style summary of the learning.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Make a “mic drop” statement that leaves everyone with a final thought for the day, either orally or in writing.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When students complete brief assessment activities like these, they more clearly focus on the outcome of whatever they learned, and their progress is also more visible. Shorter checks for understanding do not negate the need for longer, summative tests that show what students have learned by the close of a unit or a period of study. However, when teachers grow weary of giving one long assessment after another with dubious benefits, adopting the regular habit of using quick formatives removes a great deal of stress and uncovers valuable data that moves everyone in the classroom forward.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://miriamplotinsky.com/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-64707 alignleft\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/miriam-plotinsky-square-160x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/miriam-plotinsky-square-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/miriam-plotinsky-square.jpg 582w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Miriam Plotinsky\u003c/a> is an instructional specialist with Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland, where she has taught and led for more than 20 years. She is the author of \u003c/em>Small but Mighty: How Everyday Habits Add Up to More Manageable and Confident Teaching\u003cem> and three other books for educators: \u003c/em>Teach More, Hover Less: How to Stop Micromanaging Your Secondary Classroom\u003cem>;\u003c/em> Lead Like a Teacher: How to Elevate Expertise in Your School; and Writing Their Future Selves: Instructional Strategies to Affirm Student Identity.\u003cem> Miriam is a regular contributor to several publications, including Education Week and Edutopia, and she is a frequent guest on education podcasts internationally. A National Board–certified teacher with additional certification in administration and supervision, she lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Rather than think of formative assessment as a drawn-out process, it helps to focus on using tools that will tell us what we need to know quickly.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1726768133,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":9,"wordCount":769},"headData":{"title":"Tried and True — and Quick — Methods for Formative Assessment | KQED","description":"Rather than think of formative assessment as a drawn-out process, it helps to focus on using tools that will tell us what we need to know quickly.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"Rather than think of formative assessment as a drawn-out process, it helps to focus on using tools that will tell us what we need to know quickly.","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Tried and True — and Quick — Methods for Formative Assessment","datePublished":"2024-09-26T03:00:34-07:00","dateModified":"2024-09-19T10:48:53-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/64706/tried-and-true-and-quick-methods-for-formative-assessment","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>From \u003ca href=\"https://ascd.org/books/small-but-mighty?variant=125003\">Small but Mighty: How Everyday Habits Add Up to More Manageable and Confident Teaching\u003c/a> (pp. 78-80), by M. Plotinsky, 2024, ASCD. Copyright 2024 by ASCD. Reprinted with permission.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the past several years, formative approaches have gained significant traction as a preferred method of assessment, thanks in large part to the ideology behind the practice. Not too long ago, students were taught material in classrooms, mainly via stand-and-deliver direct instruction, and were subsequently asked to demonstrate their learning in what is now called a summative or “high-stakes” assessment. In this model, it wasn’t just grades that were cast in stone once test results came back; there was also an assumption that students knew the material enough to move forward with new concepts and that anyone who was falling behind needed to either catch up or succumb to continued (perhaps permanent) struggle.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-64708\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/Bookcover6x9_DPI300-bookcover6x9-Small-but-Mighty-Plotinsky-160x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/Bookcover6x9_DPI300-bookcover6x9-Small-but-Mighty-Plotinsky-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/Bookcover6x9_DPI300-bookcover6x9-Small-but-Mighty-Plotinsky-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/Bookcover6x9_DPI300-bookcover6x9-Small-but-Mighty-Plotinsky-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/Bookcover6x9_DPI300-bookcover6x9-Small-but-Mighty-Plotinsky-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/Bookcover6x9_DPI300-bookcover6x9-Small-but-Mighty-Plotinsky-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/Bookcover6x9_DPI300-bookcover6x9-Small-but-Mighty-Plotinsky-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/Bookcover6x9_DPI300-bookcover6x9-Small-but-Mighty-Plotinsky.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">This sink-or-swim approach to education has lost popularity over time, particularly in the wake of both increased awareness of equity-driven instruction and amid the aftereffects of teaching and learning during the pandemic. Turning a blind eye to student struggle is harmful, and so is closing down opportunities for growth. Additionally, the idea of determining student achievement within any given content standard only at the close of a unit of instruction is fundamentally unsound. Ideally, teachers clear up confusion and check for understanding continuously throughout a unit of study.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pushback that leaders often encounter when they ask teachers to formatively assess students with more frequency is centered on a protectiveness around two rare commodities: time and bandwidth. How, teachers ask, can they possibly assess students with any frequency when the instructional period is short, when grading piles up, and when district leaders provide no extra time for planning or preparation?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The answer to a complex question can be startlingly simple, and that is true in this instance. Rather than think of formative assessment as a drawn-out process, it helps to focus on using tools that will tell us what we need to know quickly. The following assessment bank shares some tried-and-true methods of quickly gathering information about what students know and are able to do. Students can be asked to do any of the following:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Take a brief poll (one or two questions).\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Summarize the daily learning goal in one sentence.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Fill out an exit or entry ticket that shares a concept or presents an open-ended question.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Hold up color-coded cards (often red, yellow, and green to align with traffic lights) to indicate a level of understanding or confusion.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Reflect briefly (3−5 sentences) about a concept.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Complete the sentence stem: “I still don’t understand . . . .”\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Place questions that don’t need immediate attention into a communal “Parking Lot.”\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Put “Burning Questions” on the board to clear up more immediate confusion.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Draw an important concept instead of writing about it.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Take new learning and apply it to a different situation.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Create a short assessment for peers to complete.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Write a brief social media-style summary of the learning.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Make a “mic drop” statement that leaves everyone with a final thought for the day, either orally or in writing.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When students complete brief assessment activities like these, they more clearly focus on the outcome of whatever they learned, and their progress is also more visible. Shorter checks for understanding do not negate the need for longer, summative tests that show what students have learned by the close of a unit or a period of study. However, when teachers grow weary of giving one long assessment after another with dubious benefits, adopting the regular habit of using quick formatives removes a great deal of stress and uncovers valuable data that moves everyone in the classroom forward.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://miriamplotinsky.com/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-64707 alignleft\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/miriam-plotinsky-square-160x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/miriam-plotinsky-square-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/09/miriam-plotinsky-square.jpg 582w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Miriam Plotinsky\u003c/a> is an instructional specialist with Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland, where she has taught and led for more than 20 years. She is the author of \u003c/em>Small but Mighty: How Everyday Habits Add Up to More Manageable and Confident Teaching\u003cem> and three other books for educators: \u003c/em>Teach More, Hover Less: How to Stop Micromanaging Your Secondary Classroom\u003cem>;\u003c/em> Lead Like a Teacher: How to Elevate Expertise in Your School; and Writing Their Future Selves: Instructional Strategies to Affirm Student Identity.\u003cem> Miriam is a regular contributor to several publications, including Education Week and Edutopia, and she is a frequent guest on education podcasts internationally. A National Board–certified teacher with additional certification in administration and supervision, she lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/64706/tried-and-true-and-quick-methods-for-formative-assessment","authors":["4354"],"categories":["mindshift_21491","mindshift_193"],"tags":["mindshift_108","mindshift_20978","mindshift_21110"],"featImg":"mindshift_64712","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_64769":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_64769","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"mindshift","id":"64769","score":null,"sort":[1727258442000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"do-cellphone-bans-in-middle-schools-work-its-complicated","title":"Do Cellphone Bans in Middle School Work? It’s Complicated.","publishDate":1727258442,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Do Cellphone Bans in Middle School Work? It’s Complicated. | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last year, Roosevelt Middle School in San Francisco, California introduced a campus-wide cellphone and smartphone ban. That meant devices are “off and away at all times while you’re on campus,” said Emily Leicham, Roosevelt Middle School’s principal. Among those in favor of the policy was Marta Lindsey, whose child started sixth grade at Roosevelt in fall 2024. She said that the phone policy was the reason her family chose the school as their first pick in the district’s lottery system. “I just feel super lucky that we got into this school…I don’t even care about anything else about this school except for this policy,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cellphone bans aren’t new to K-12 schools across the nation, but the past year has seen growing momentum for district and statewide bans. In a Pew Research survey, nearly three quarters of high school teachers and a third of middle school teachers said that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/06/12/72-percent-of-us-high-school-teachers-say-cellphone-distraction-is-a-major-problem-in-the-classroom/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">cellphones are a major distraction in the classroom\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In media appearances related to his \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/04/14/1244000143/anxious-generation-kids-autonomy-freedom\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">bestselling book, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anxious Generation\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has called for \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/ban-smartphones-phone-free-schools-social-media/674304/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">phone-free schools\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/mental-health/issue-brief/a-look-at-state-efforts-to-ban-cellphones-in-schools-and-implications-for-youth-mental-health/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">seven states have banned or restricted cellphone use\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in schools for the 2024-25 school year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, not everyone is enthusiastic about cellphone and electronics bans in middle schools. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RCulatta\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Richard Culatta\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tannerhiggin.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tanner Higgin\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a senior educational technology researcher at WestEd, support a more nuanced approach to technology use in schools. Instead of a permanent ban on cellphones, Culatta and Higgin suggested that schools teach digital citizenship and develop technology policies that foster healthy electronic use among students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Implementing a cellphone ban\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At Roosevelt Middle School, the policy worked immediately, according to Leicham. She said she confiscated 40 to 50 phones, airpods and smartwatches on the first day of the cellphone ban in 2023. The second day, she only confiscated two devices. The new system and school policy took years to develop, with parents initiating the conversation during Leicham’s first year as principal in the 2021-22 school year. While parents drove a lot of the interest in a cellphone free school campus, Leicham made sure to include students and teachers in the conversation. Students were given the opportunity to discuss the potential of a cellphone policy during their advisory periods, and teachers had ongoing conversations during staff meetings about their concerns and anticipated challenges, said Leicham.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year, Roosevelt expanded the policy to cover all electronics, including Google Chromebooks when not directly in use in a classroom. Additionally, the policy allows no room for warnings. Once a student’s electronic is spotted by a teacher or administrator, it is placed in the front office for the day. Students collect confiscated phones after school. This eliminates power struggles between teachers and students, according to Leicham.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Math teacher Melanie Buntichai said that it was a challenge for individual teachers to enforce their own classroom cellphone policies before the ban. If she engaged with a student who was using their phone inappropriately in class it could take up to ten minutes away from class time. Since Roosevelt implemented a schoolwide policy, “the students don’t fight back as much,” and interruptions became less time consuming, she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leicham said students interact with each other more during lunchtime now. “It’s nice to see them, you know, being kids; hanging out with each other,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Roosevelt requires \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Common Sense Media’s digital citizenship\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> lessons for students during advisory classes. According to Leicham, for the 2024-25 school year, Roosevelt aims to have students complete four lessons. The school also provides Common Sense Media resources for parents that covers appropriate and responsible tech use. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Student and parent responses\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While parents have been on board with the electronics policy at Roosevelt, students have been harder to win over. Leicham said that transparency helps when explaining to students why smartphones and other devices don’t belong on campus. “Middle school is the time to build relationships with others,” and middle schoolers “need less screen time and more interaction with others,” Leicham said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Psychologist Jacqueline Nesi thinks there is some truth to this. But “it’s not always the case that when students are using screens in general, that they are not socializing at all,” said Nesi, who studies the effects of technology on children. Increased focus on social interactions is a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59687/middle-schoolers-are-social-what-opportunity-does-that-create-for-learning\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">hallmark of early adolescent development\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, according to Nesi. However, when it comes to fitting in, smartphones can be both a source of disconnection and connection for middle schoolers. On one hand, a student can feel left out if they don’t have access to the same technology that their peers do. On the other hand, a student who feels “marginalized in their offline community” might find belonging through technology “even if it’s in an online environment,” said Nesi.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like it did for Lindsey, Roosevelt’s cellphone policy attracted Eiko Sugano to the school. She also hoped to enroll her child there for sixth grade, but he ended up at another school further down on their lottery list. For Sugano, a full cellphone and electronics ban is what initially drew her to Roosevelt. “It was definitely one of my top factors,” she said. Sugano’s son does not have a cellphone. She prefers that he engages in-person rather than on a device, and learns to navigate everyday challenges, like missing a bus, without the help of a smartphone.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kids need “increasing independence as they age [and] there’s value in giving them opportunities to solve problems,” said Nesi. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to parenting decisions about which devices to allow adolescents to use and when, she added. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lindsey held an on-campus and online community conversation for families about cellphone and electronics policies at her child’s elementary school last year. “Parents are \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/63497/parents-make-mistakes-when-setting-screen-time-rules-for-their-kids-thats-ok\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">feeling so alone in this\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,” she said. Coming together as a school community provided a much needed space for “information sharing between parents about how they’re navigating things or what they’re worried about,” she continued.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although Lindsey is hopeful for the future of students’ cellphone use both in school and outside of school, she wants these conversations and electronics to happen at a more rapid pace because kids are struggling right now. “I can’t even think of a bigger issue right now that parents are having to navigate,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>No to outright bans, yes to guided practice\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bans on cellphones and electronic devices are taking off beyond Roosevelt. Some large school districts like Los Angeles Unified School District and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/64133/new-york-city-is-moving-to-ban-phones-from-school-will-it-work\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">New York City Public Schools\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are looking to or have already implemented \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.k12dive.com/news/safety-concerns-school-cell-phone-bans-mental-health/726668/#:~:text=According%20to%20KFF%2C%20seven%20states,restrict%20both%20use%20and%20possession\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">district-wide cellphone bans\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. But Culatta, the ISTE CEO, thinks these bans are too hasty. He said banning phones removes students’ opportunities to learn appropriate and effective use of technology. While a ban might feel like a satisfying solution, “it doesn’t actually prepare kids to be successful down the road,” he said. If students aren’t learning digital etiquette in school, “where will they ever learn it?” Culatta asked.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead, Culatta advocates for school electronics policies that consult students and “create healthy conditions” for technology use. Writing these expectations in plain and positive language is important. Instead of telling students all the things they can’t do, Culatta suggested that schools clearly lay out norms that students \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">can\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> follow. At the bottom of these technology guidelines, there should also be clear guidance on what the expectations are when students have broken the code of conduct, said Culatta. The policy should be age-specific, too. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Culatta, having technology guidelines in place of a ban opens the opportunity for learning moments to remind students about responsible and appropriate technology use. No ban doesn’t mean no consequences, said Culatta. He also said that a temporary ban can help to jumpstart a more robust and nuanced technology policy. “It is totally appropriate to pause and say ‘timeout for a second, we need all the devices to go away for a minute while we talk about what the norms are, while we talk about what this looks like’ and then start to bring them back,” he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Higgin, the WestEd researcher, believes that educators can incorporate conversations about technology use without necessarily bringing those technologies into the classroom. “Encourage students to think about their habits and uses of technology [and] how those uses align with their values and goals,” he said. To help with those conversations, he pointed teachers toward free resources provided by \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/back-to-school\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Common Sense Media\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> – where he used to work – and their partner \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://digitalthriving.gse.harvard.edu/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Center For Digital Thriving at Harvard\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, as well as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://iste.org/digital-citizenship\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ISTE’s digital citizenship curriculum\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The past year has seen growing momentum for district and statewide bans on cellphones in schools. But not everyone is enthusiastic about such policies.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1726876950,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":1540},"headData":{"title":"Do Cellphone Bans in Middle School Work? It’s Complicated. | KQED","description":"The past year has seen growing momentum for district and statewide bans on cellphones in schools. But not everyone is enthusiastic about such policies.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"The past year has seen growing momentum for district and statewide bans on cellphones in schools. But not everyone is enthusiastic about such policies.","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Do Cellphone Bans in Middle School Work? It’s Complicated.","datePublished":"2024-09-25T03:00:42-07:00","dateModified":"2024-09-20T17:02:30-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/64769/do-cellphone-bans-in-middle-schools-work-its-complicated","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last year, Roosevelt Middle School in San Francisco, California introduced a campus-wide cellphone and smartphone ban. That meant devices are “off and away at all times while you’re on campus,” said Emily Leicham, Roosevelt Middle School’s principal. Among those in favor of the policy was Marta Lindsey, whose child started sixth grade at Roosevelt in fall 2024. She said that the phone policy was the reason her family chose the school as their first pick in the district’s lottery system. “I just feel super lucky that we got into this school…I don’t even care about anything else about this school except for this policy,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cellphone bans aren’t new to K-12 schools across the nation, but the past year has seen growing momentum for district and statewide bans. In a Pew Research survey, nearly three quarters of high school teachers and a third of middle school teachers said that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/06/12/72-percent-of-us-high-school-teachers-say-cellphone-distraction-is-a-major-problem-in-the-classroom/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">cellphones are a major distraction in the classroom\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In media appearances related to his \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/04/14/1244000143/anxious-generation-kids-autonomy-freedom\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">bestselling book, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anxious Generation\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has called for \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/ban-smartphones-phone-free-schools-social-media/674304/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">phone-free schools\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/mental-health/issue-brief/a-look-at-state-efforts-to-ban-cellphones-in-schools-and-implications-for-youth-mental-health/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">seven states have banned or restricted cellphone use\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in schools for the 2024-25 school year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, not everyone is enthusiastic about cellphone and electronics bans in middle schools. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RCulatta\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Richard Culatta\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tannerhiggin.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tanner Higgin\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a senior educational technology researcher at WestEd, support a more nuanced approach to technology use in schools. Instead of a permanent ban on cellphones, Culatta and Higgin suggested that schools teach digital citizenship and develop technology policies that foster healthy electronic use among students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Implementing a cellphone ban\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At Roosevelt Middle School, the policy worked immediately, according to Leicham. She said she confiscated 40 to 50 phones, airpods and smartwatches on the first day of the cellphone ban in 2023. The second day, she only confiscated two devices. The new system and school policy took years to develop, with parents initiating the conversation during Leicham’s first year as principal in the 2021-22 school year. While parents drove a lot of the interest in a cellphone free school campus, Leicham made sure to include students and teachers in the conversation. Students were given the opportunity to discuss the potential of a cellphone policy during their advisory periods, and teachers had ongoing conversations during staff meetings about their concerns and anticipated challenges, said Leicham.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year, Roosevelt expanded the policy to cover all electronics, including Google Chromebooks when not directly in use in a classroom. Additionally, the policy allows no room for warnings. Once a student’s electronic is spotted by a teacher or administrator, it is placed in the front office for the day. Students collect confiscated phones after school. This eliminates power struggles between teachers and students, according to Leicham.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Math teacher Melanie Buntichai said that it was a challenge for individual teachers to enforce their own classroom cellphone policies before the ban. If she engaged with a student who was using their phone inappropriately in class it could take up to ten minutes away from class time. Since Roosevelt implemented a schoolwide policy, “the students don’t fight back as much,” and interruptions became less time consuming, she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leicham said students interact with each other more during lunchtime now. “It’s nice to see them, you know, being kids; hanging out with each other,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Roosevelt requires \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Common Sense Media’s digital citizenship\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> lessons for students during advisory classes. According to Leicham, for the 2024-25 school year, Roosevelt aims to have students complete four lessons. The school also provides Common Sense Media resources for parents that covers appropriate and responsible tech use. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Student and parent responses\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While parents have been on board with the electronics policy at Roosevelt, students have been harder to win over. Leicham said that transparency helps when explaining to students why smartphones and other devices don’t belong on campus. “Middle school is the time to build relationships with others,” and middle schoolers “need less screen time and more interaction with others,” Leicham said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Psychologist Jacqueline Nesi thinks there is some truth to this. But “it’s not always the case that when students are using screens in general, that they are not socializing at all,” said Nesi, who studies the effects of technology on children. Increased focus on social interactions is a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59687/middle-schoolers-are-social-what-opportunity-does-that-create-for-learning\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">hallmark of early adolescent development\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, according to Nesi. However, when it comes to fitting in, smartphones can be both a source of disconnection and connection for middle schoolers. On one hand, a student can feel left out if they don’t have access to the same technology that their peers do. On the other hand, a student who feels “marginalized in their offline community” might find belonging through technology “even if it’s in an online environment,” said Nesi.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like it did for Lindsey, Roosevelt’s cellphone policy attracted Eiko Sugano to the school. She also hoped to enroll her child there for sixth grade, but he ended up at another school further down on their lottery list. For Sugano, a full cellphone and electronics ban is what initially drew her to Roosevelt. “It was definitely one of my top factors,” she said. Sugano’s son does not have a cellphone. She prefers that he engages in-person rather than on a device, and learns to navigate everyday challenges, like missing a bus, without the help of a smartphone.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kids need “increasing independence as they age [and] there’s value in giving them opportunities to solve problems,” said Nesi. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to parenting decisions about which devices to allow adolescents to use and when, she added. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lindsey held an on-campus and online community conversation for families about cellphone and electronics policies at her child’s elementary school last year. “Parents are \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/63497/parents-make-mistakes-when-setting-screen-time-rules-for-their-kids-thats-ok\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">feeling so alone in this\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,” she said. Coming together as a school community provided a much needed space for “information sharing between parents about how they’re navigating things or what they’re worried about,” she continued.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although Lindsey is hopeful for the future of students’ cellphone use both in school and outside of school, she wants these conversations and electronics to happen at a more rapid pace because kids are struggling right now. “I can’t even think of a bigger issue right now that parents are having to navigate,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>No to outright bans, yes to guided practice\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bans on cellphones and electronic devices are taking off beyond Roosevelt. Some large school districts like Los Angeles Unified School District and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/64133/new-york-city-is-moving-to-ban-phones-from-school-will-it-work\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">New York City Public Schools\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are looking to or have already implemented \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.k12dive.com/news/safety-concerns-school-cell-phone-bans-mental-health/726668/#:~:text=According%20to%20KFF%2C%20seven%20states,restrict%20both%20use%20and%20possession\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">district-wide cellphone bans\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. But Culatta, the ISTE CEO, thinks these bans are too hasty. He said banning phones removes students’ opportunities to learn appropriate and effective use of technology. While a ban might feel like a satisfying solution, “it doesn’t actually prepare kids to be successful down the road,” he said. If students aren’t learning digital etiquette in school, “where will they ever learn it?” Culatta asked.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead, Culatta advocates for school electronics policies that consult students and “create healthy conditions” for technology use. Writing these expectations in plain and positive language is important. Instead of telling students all the things they can’t do, Culatta suggested that schools clearly lay out norms that students \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">can\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> follow. At the bottom of these technology guidelines, there should also be clear guidance on what the expectations are when students have broken the code of conduct, said Culatta. The policy should be age-specific, too. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Culatta, having technology guidelines in place of a ban opens the opportunity for learning moments to remind students about responsible and appropriate technology use. No ban doesn’t mean no consequences, said Culatta. He also said that a temporary ban can help to jumpstart a more robust and nuanced technology policy. “It is totally appropriate to pause and say ‘timeout for a second, we need all the devices to go away for a minute while we talk about what the norms are, while we talk about what this looks like’ and then start to bring them back,” he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Higgin, the WestEd researcher, believes that educators can incorporate conversations about technology use without necessarily bringing those technologies into the classroom. “Encourage students to think about their habits and uses of technology [and] how those uses align with their values and goals,” he said. To help with those conversations, he pointed teachers toward free resources provided by \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/back-to-school\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Common Sense Media\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> – where he used to work – and their partner \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://digitalthriving.gse.harvard.edu/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Center For Digital Thriving at Harvard\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, as well as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://iste.org/digital-citizenship\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ISTE’s digital citizenship curriculum\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/64769/do-cellphone-bans-in-middle-schools-work-its-complicated","authors":["11759"],"categories":["mindshift_195","mindshift_21579"],"tags":["mindshift_685","mindshift_866"],"featImg":"mindshift_64770","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_64744":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_64744","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"mindshift","id":"64744","score":null,"sort":[1727172343000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"14-poems-by-living-poets-to-teach-in-english-class-right-now","title":"13 Poems By Living Poets to Teach in English Class Right Now","publishDate":1727172343,"format":"standard","headTitle":"13 Poems By Living Poets to Teach in English Class Right Now | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hanif Abduraqqib. Sarah Kay. Elizabeth Acevedo. Clint Smith. Do any of these names sound familiar? How about Amanda Gorman? All of these writers are part of America’s thriving contemporary poetry scene. But you won’t find them in many text books, because high school poetry units tend to focus on dead poets, like Robert Frost, Walt Whitman and Edgar Allen Poe. North Carolina teacher \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MelAlterSmith\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Melissa Alter Smith\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/64621/why-poetry-is-making-a-comeback-in-schools\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">working to change that\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For the last seven years, she’s been diversifying the canon in her classroom, and encouraging other teachers to do the same with the hashtag #teachlivingpoets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The shift has inspired teachers across the country to get creative with how they teach students things like tone, rhythm and structure in poetry. “I love being creative. So if I love being creative and learning in creative ways, why wouldn’t I expect my students to want the same thing?” Smith said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">MindShift asked Smith and other educators to share some of the poems by living poets that have resonated with their students. Here are their highlights.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off” by Hanif Abdurraqib\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By referencing a legendary basketball player and iconic (if debated) \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.si.com/nba/bulls/off-the-court/as-the-wifi-network-shows-the-utah-jazz-are-still-not-over-the-1998-nba-finals\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">moment in sports history\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the title of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://poets.org/poem/it-maybe-time-admit-michael-jordan-definitely-pushed\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">this poem\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> immediately interests students and nets buy-in before they’ve begun reading, said Smith. But the poem is about more than Jordan’s title-winning shot. It’s also about the death of a loved one and processing grief.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith uses the poem to teach her students about structure, pacing, allusion, metaphor and point of view. They learn by going outside and “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://teachlivingpoets.com/2023/11/30/exploring-structure-in-hanif-abdurraqibs-poem-it-is-maybe-time-to-admit-that-michael-jordan-definitely-pushed-off/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">walking the poem\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.” They read the poem out loud as they walk, making turns at every ampersand (there are more than 20) and pausing at every stanza break, comma or period (there are fewer than 10).\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith said it’s one her favorite lessons because “it’s such an unfolding of understanding that happens” as the students walk. “What this does is it allows the students to get a physical understanding of the pacing and the movement of the poem … that they did not get upon their initial reading, just sitting in their desk reading the poem out loud.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>\u003cb>New Day’s Lyric\u003c/b>\u003cb>” \u003c/b>\u003cb>by Amanda Gorman\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith teaches \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVfyaRLVvpY\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">this poem\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> right after winter break. “Since Gorman wrote it as a poem to ring in the new year, it’s perfect for kicking off the new semester and resetting ourselves with purpose and hope while interrogating the mistakes of our past,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The poem deals with themes of reckoning with the past, coming together, hope and healing, and it features a range of literary devices. “This poem provides students the opportunity to witness a master of word play and language,” Smith said. “By asking students to notice the nuances of Gorman’s craft, they witness how a poem ‘works.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith asks her students to highlight specific literary devices in designated colors and then \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://teachlivingpoets.com/2022/01/06/amanda-gorman-lesson-for-teaching-new-days-lyric/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">create a work of art based on the poem\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Gorman herself has \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/TheAmandaGorman/status/1479240141910659078\">praised the lesson on X\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“Hair” by Elizabeth Acevedo\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Acevedo manages to teach history and ancestral wisdom with this poem about her own hair and the hair (and experiences with it) that is part of the inheritance belonging to every woman of African descent,” said \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/juliaerin80\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Julia Torres\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a librarian in the Denver Metro Area. “Her poem is both intimate and universal, a reclamation of self in a world that constantly tries to get Black women to betray themselves in the pursuit of ‘beauty.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Torres said the poem is valuable for teaching metaphor and symbolism, “abstract language that can be difficult for students to grasp.” Acevedo also uses juxtaposition in the poem. Torres shared two examples of her students’ reactions to the poem:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Personally I am not a person of color, but I know how important hair is to this culture. With this being such a big part of her, she takes a lot of pride in her hair. It’s curly and has so much volume and texture to it. Making it, in my mind, beautiful. I feel as though she shouldn’t have to hide it.” – K.A. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“When people have self-confidence, they will always be proud of their state of life.” – D.N.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“This Is Not a Small Voice” by Sonia Sanchez\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MrNeibauer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Adrian Neibauer\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’s fifth grade students in Colorado have loved this “short and powerful” \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://poets.org/poem/not-small-voice\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">poem\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. As not-quite-tweens, Neibauer said his students “are often seen as young children without opinions of their own.” The poem’s themes of voice and activism inspire them to find their own voices. “Students are able to easily relate to themes of humanity, the power of one’s voice and activism,” Neibauer said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The poem also provides examples for teaching anaphora. “I love how Sanchez uses repetition, which helps students with their poetic fluency,” Neibauer said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“Wild Horses” by Paisley Rekdal\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another one with an activism theme, Neibauer said “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://poets.org/poem/wild-horses\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wild Horses\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” is “a great introduction to more challenging themes of suffrage and protest.” It is written from the point of view of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://utahwomenshistory.org/the-women/seraph-young/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seraph Young Ford\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the first woman to vote in Utah and the modern nation, and requires some pre-teaching about her, as well as suffrage and Indigenous history.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is a more challenging poem, but students respond well to the historical significance embedded in the poem,” said Neibauer, who pairs it with the Rolling Stones’ \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQTHB4jM-KQ\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">song of the same name\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and enjoys discussing the imagery in both. The poem is also rich with vocabulary words, like “acculturation,” for young readers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“A Bird Made of Birds” by Sarah Kay\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The heart, care and precision of this poem’s images has always stayed with me,” said \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://caesura.nu/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">R.A. Villanueva\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a Sarah Lawrence College professor and middle school teacher. “There’s a genuine devotion to the strangeness and sublime beauty of the world — and a trust in bewilderment as a spark for creativity. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Villanueva, who is also a poet himself, shares with students \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_kay_a_bird_made_of_birds?subtitle=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a TED Talk\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in which Kay describes her inspiration and performing the poem. “Listening to her storytelling flow into her performance has inspired amazing conversations about the catalytic specifics that power poems,” Villanueva said. “And since ‘A Bird Made of Birds’ is also an array of personal responses to diverse kinds of knowledge and visuals, I’m able to introduce [students] to ekphrasis / ekphrastic poetry.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two of the visuals in Kay’s talk and poem are the anatomical heart of a blue whale and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/animals/birds/starling-murmurations/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">starling murmurations\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Villanueva’s students view diagrams showing the scale of whale hearts and watch a video of starling murmurations. “After they see all those varied layers together, wonderful things happen: They’re able to free write through the connections they discover, practice annotation and note-taking skills, and apply some essential craft vocabulary,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“For Estefani Lora, Third Grade, Who Made Me A Card” by Aracelis Girmay\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This poem “pulses with mystery and playfulness,” said Villanueva. In it, the writer tries to decipher an unrecognizable word in a hand drawn card given to her by a young child. “It’s not just description or mere reporting on a memory; she’s able to convey the tumbling of her imagination and her genuine, child-like joy at connecting with her former student’s affirmations. It’s a hopeful, tender poem,” Villanueva said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His students – those in sixth grade and those in graduate school – first encounter the poem in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcIYMCC0M1w\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">an animated video recitation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “Listening to Aracelis Girmay’s own voice, her own crescendos and pauses, helps enliven their experience with the poem. They’re free to join in the suspense and then celebrate the epiphany along with the speaker,” Villanueva said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After that, students read a printed copy in small groups, analyzing Girmay’s unusual arrangement of lines and stanzas, her stretching of punctuation conventions, and the changing rhythms. “We talk about how \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/enjambment\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">enjambment\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> works like musical notation, how onomatopoeia helps the poet tussle with sounds and meanings of the words she loves,” Villanueva said. “The admixture of laughter and close reading analysis is incredible to hear.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“One Vote” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This poem makes an allusion to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/local/history/tennessee-19-amendment-letter-harry-burn-mother-febb/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the letter\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that Harry T. Burn received from his mother just before his vote tipped the Tennessee General Assembly in favor of ratifying the 19th Amendment. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/susangbarber\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Susan Barber\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a high school English teacher in Atlanta, Georgia, teaches the poem during election season. Her students are all seniors, many of whom have the opportunity to vote for the first time. For them, the poem “reinforces the idea that each vote – their vote – makes a difference,” Barber said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barber encourages students to notice the poet’s use of enjambment and stanza breaks, and to unpack the metaphor of an eagle and an eaglet learning to fly. “I love the way that Nezhukumatathil turns to nature imagery as a means to understanding ideas and daily occurrences,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“Perhaps the World Ends Here” by Joy Harjo\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With its descriptions of the many life experiences that occur around a kitchen table, Barber said \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49622/perhaps-the-world-ends-here\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">this poem\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is full of juxtapositions and contrasts for students to unpack.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I love the way Harjo sizes up life through a common object,” Barber said of the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/07/1034751793/poet-laureate-warrior-joy-harjo\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">former United State Poet Laureate\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> who was the first Native American to hold that title. “Everyone can relate to the table and experiences around the table, so students always enjoy this poem.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barber said the poem connects to the idea of “breaking bread” and can lead to discussions of the intimacy of eating together. She loves to teach it close to Thanksgiving break, when students are anticipating family gatherings at kitchen tables.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“A New National Anthem” by Ada Limón\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/CzaiaZach\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zach Czaia\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, an English teacher in Minneapolis, Minnesota, said he loves that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147506/a-new-national-anthem\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">this poem\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “talks back to a ‘classic’ text” – the national anthem. “It empowers students in a college prep course to exercise their own voices, and feel like they, too, belong. Their voice, too, matters,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Czaia focuses on diction with this poem, using an exercise from the Teach Living Poets website that asks students to make concentric circles on butcher paper and choose the most important word from the poem to place in the center. In the middle circle they list images and personal connections to the central word, and in the outer circle they write about the overall meaning and theme of the poem.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Students have definitely responded positively to this poem, and appreciated its connection to history that they have studied in the past,” Czaia said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“America Is Loving Me To Death” by Michael Kleber-Diggs\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this poem, Kleber-Diggs lays bare the pains of being Black in America. And he does amid what Czaia called “two very accessible but also formally interesting strategies.” The first letters are an acrostic, spelling out the poem’s title. The last word in each line comes from another text – the pledge of allegiance. This latter form is called a “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/golden-shovel-poetic-form\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">golden shovel poem\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” and was created by poet Terrance Hayes and inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This attentiveness to structure and pattern allows students ways to consider Kleber-Diggs’ deep critique of systemic American racism,” Czaia said of the combination of an acrostic and golden shovel. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Czaia uses “America Is Loving Me To Death” as a mentor text for students to write their own golden shovel poems. He said his students love the poem and some have written letters to Kleber-Diggs, who lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota,\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “just across the river” from Czaia’s school. Czaia said Kleber-Diggs has responded to those letters his students also visited his class – something only living poets can do.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“Camaro” by\u003c/b> \u003cb>Phil Kaye\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/theVogelman\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brett Vogelsinger\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, an English teacher in Pennsylvania and author of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Poetry Pauses: Teaching With Poems to Elevate Student Writing in All Genres\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, said his classroom goes quiet after watching Kaye perform \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://buttonpoetry.com/phil-kaye-camaro/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">this spoken word poem\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “Kaye’s delivery adds extra dimension to the words that are already wonderful,” Vogelsinger said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The poem weaves through memories from a childhood crush, a long ago road trip, and a later encounter after a breakup. “It speaks to how moments stick with us for a long time, and reminds us of how sadness and fondness can interact in our memories,” Vogelsinger said. “Students love talking about the way the past elementary school memory and the more recent Camaro memory interact to impact the present moment, and how and why two people can remember (or forget) the same moment differently.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students also can dissect the poet’s use of repetition, flashback, imagery, and figurative language. And, Vogelsinger said, “There will always be at least one student in class who will recognize the sly allusion to E. T. as well!”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“Burning the Old Year” by Naomi Shihab Nye\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the name might suggest, this is another good \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48597/burning-the-old-year\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">poem\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to teach after winter break. “The imagery is crisp and beautiful and the idea of what we hold onto and let go of is important,” said Vogelsinger. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Metaphors shine in this poem,” Vogelsinger said. After reading the poem, his students discuss the meaning of the two metaphors in the lines “So much of a year is flammable” and “so little is stone.” Then he asks them to respond in their notebooks to two questions:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What do you hope is flammable from last year?\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What do you hope is stone? \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“No one has to share what they write, as this is a more personal prompt, but I close by reminding them how poetry can be a catalyst for reflection like this, to make us slow down and think about our hopes, our priorities and our longings – the things that make us human!” Vogelsinger said. “It’s a potent moment to share together as we reunite in January, and so much more interesting than resolutions.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1727182298,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":41,"wordCount":2510},"headData":{"title":"13 Poems By Living Poets to Teach in English Class Right Now | KQED","description":"Hanif Abduraqqib. Sarah Kay. Elizabeth Acevedo. Clint Smith. Do any of these names sound familiar? How about Amanda Gorman? All of these writers are part of America’s thriving contemporary poetry scene. But you won’t find them in many text books, because high school poetry units tend to focus on dead poets, like Robert Frost, Walt Whitman and Edgar Allen Poe. North Carolina teacher Melissa Alter Smith is working to change that. For the last seven years, she’s been diversifying the canon in her classroom, and encouraging other teachers to do the same with the hashtag #teachlivingpoets. 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But you won’t find them in many text books, because high school poetry units tend to focus on dead poets, like Robert Frost, Walt Whitman and Edgar Allen Poe. North Carolina teacher \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MelAlterSmith\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Melissa Alter Smith\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/64621/why-poetry-is-making-a-comeback-in-schools\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">working to change that\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For the last seven years, she’s been diversifying the canon in her classroom, and encouraging other teachers to do the same with the hashtag #teachlivingpoets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The shift has inspired teachers across the country to get creative with how they teach students things like tone, rhythm and structure in poetry. “I love being creative. So if I love being creative and learning in creative ways, why wouldn’t I expect my students to want the same thing?” Smith said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">MindShift asked Smith and other educators to share some of the poems by living poets that have resonated with their students. Here are their highlights.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off” by Hanif Abdurraqib\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By referencing a legendary basketball player and iconic (if debated) \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.si.com/nba/bulls/off-the-court/as-the-wifi-network-shows-the-utah-jazz-are-still-not-over-the-1998-nba-finals\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">moment in sports history\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the title of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://poets.org/poem/it-maybe-time-admit-michael-jordan-definitely-pushed\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">this poem\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> immediately interests students and nets buy-in before they’ve begun reading, said Smith. But the poem is about more than Jordan’s title-winning shot. It’s also about the death of a loved one and processing grief.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith uses the poem to teach her students about structure, pacing, allusion, metaphor and point of view. They learn by going outside and “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://teachlivingpoets.com/2023/11/30/exploring-structure-in-hanif-abdurraqibs-poem-it-is-maybe-time-to-admit-that-michael-jordan-definitely-pushed-off/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">walking the poem\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.” They read the poem out loud as they walk, making turns at every ampersand (there are more than 20) and pausing at every stanza break, comma or period (there are fewer than 10).\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith said it’s one her favorite lessons because “it’s such an unfolding of understanding that happens” as the students walk. “What this does is it allows the students to get a physical understanding of the pacing and the movement of the poem … that they did not get upon their initial reading, just sitting in their desk reading the poem out loud.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>\u003cb>New Day’s Lyric\u003c/b>\u003cb>” \u003c/b>\u003cb>by Amanda Gorman\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith teaches \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVfyaRLVvpY\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">this poem\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> right after winter break. “Since Gorman wrote it as a poem to ring in the new year, it’s perfect for kicking off the new semester and resetting ourselves with purpose and hope while interrogating the mistakes of our past,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The poem deals with themes of reckoning with the past, coming together, hope and healing, and it features a range of literary devices. “This poem provides students the opportunity to witness a master of word play and language,” Smith said. “By asking students to notice the nuances of Gorman’s craft, they witness how a poem ‘works.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith asks her students to highlight specific literary devices in designated colors and then \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://teachlivingpoets.com/2022/01/06/amanda-gorman-lesson-for-teaching-new-days-lyric/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">create a work of art based on the poem\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Gorman herself has \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/TheAmandaGorman/status/1479240141910659078\">praised the lesson on X\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“Hair” by Elizabeth Acevedo\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Acevedo manages to teach history and ancestral wisdom with this poem about her own hair and the hair (and experiences with it) that is part of the inheritance belonging to every woman of African descent,” said \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/juliaerin80\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Julia Torres\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a librarian in the Denver Metro Area. “Her poem is both intimate and universal, a reclamation of self in a world that constantly tries to get Black women to betray themselves in the pursuit of ‘beauty.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Torres said the poem is valuable for teaching metaphor and symbolism, “abstract language that can be difficult for students to grasp.” Acevedo also uses juxtaposition in the poem. Torres shared two examples of her students’ reactions to the poem:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Personally I am not a person of color, but I know how important hair is to this culture. With this being such a big part of her, she takes a lot of pride in her hair. It’s curly and has so much volume and texture to it. Making it, in my mind, beautiful. I feel as though she shouldn’t have to hide it.” – K.A. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“When people have self-confidence, they will always be proud of their state of life.” – D.N.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“This Is Not a Small Voice” by Sonia Sanchez\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MrNeibauer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Adrian Neibauer\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’s fifth grade students in Colorado have loved this “short and powerful” \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://poets.org/poem/not-small-voice\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">poem\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. As not-quite-tweens, Neibauer said his students “are often seen as young children without opinions of their own.” The poem’s themes of voice and activism inspire them to find their own voices. “Students are able to easily relate to themes of humanity, the power of one’s voice and activism,” Neibauer said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The poem also provides examples for teaching anaphora. “I love how Sanchez uses repetition, which helps students with their poetic fluency,” Neibauer said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“Wild Horses” by Paisley Rekdal\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another one with an activism theme, Neibauer said “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://poets.org/poem/wild-horses\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wild Horses\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” is “a great introduction to more challenging themes of suffrage and protest.” It is written from the point of view of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://utahwomenshistory.org/the-women/seraph-young/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seraph Young Ford\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the first woman to vote in Utah and the modern nation, and requires some pre-teaching about her, as well as suffrage and Indigenous history.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is a more challenging poem, but students respond well to the historical significance embedded in the poem,” said Neibauer, who pairs it with the Rolling Stones’ \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQTHB4jM-KQ\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">song of the same name\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and enjoys discussing the imagery in both. The poem is also rich with vocabulary words, like “acculturation,” for young readers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“A Bird Made of Birds” by Sarah Kay\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The heart, care and precision of this poem’s images has always stayed with me,” said \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://caesura.nu/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">R.A. Villanueva\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a Sarah Lawrence College professor and middle school teacher. “There’s a genuine devotion to the strangeness and sublime beauty of the world — and a trust in bewilderment as a spark for creativity. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Villanueva, who is also a poet himself, shares with students \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_kay_a_bird_made_of_birds?subtitle=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a TED Talk\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in which Kay describes her inspiration and performing the poem. “Listening to her storytelling flow into her performance has inspired amazing conversations about the catalytic specifics that power poems,” Villanueva said. “And since ‘A Bird Made of Birds’ is also an array of personal responses to diverse kinds of knowledge and visuals, I’m able to introduce [students] to ekphrasis / ekphrastic poetry.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two of the visuals in Kay’s talk and poem are the anatomical heart of a blue whale and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/animals/birds/starling-murmurations/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">starling murmurations\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Villanueva’s students view diagrams showing the scale of whale hearts and watch a video of starling murmurations. “After they see all those varied layers together, wonderful things happen: They’re able to free write through the connections they discover, practice annotation and note-taking skills, and apply some essential craft vocabulary,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“For Estefani Lora, Third Grade, Who Made Me A Card” by Aracelis Girmay\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This poem “pulses with mystery and playfulness,” said Villanueva. In it, the writer tries to decipher an unrecognizable word in a hand drawn card given to her by a young child. “It’s not just description or mere reporting on a memory; she’s able to convey the tumbling of her imagination and her genuine, child-like joy at connecting with her former student’s affirmations. It’s a hopeful, tender poem,” Villanueva said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His students – those in sixth grade and those in graduate school – first encounter the poem in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcIYMCC0M1w\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">an animated video recitation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “Listening to Aracelis Girmay’s own voice, her own crescendos and pauses, helps enliven their experience with the poem. They’re free to join in the suspense and then celebrate the epiphany along with the speaker,” Villanueva said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After that, students read a printed copy in small groups, analyzing Girmay’s unusual arrangement of lines and stanzas, her stretching of punctuation conventions, and the changing rhythms. “We talk about how \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/enjambment\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">enjambment\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> works like musical notation, how onomatopoeia helps the poet tussle with sounds and meanings of the words she loves,” Villanueva said. “The admixture of laughter and close reading analysis is incredible to hear.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“One Vote” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This poem makes an allusion to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/local/history/tennessee-19-amendment-letter-harry-burn-mother-febb/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the letter\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that Harry T. Burn received from his mother just before his vote tipped the Tennessee General Assembly in favor of ratifying the 19th Amendment. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/susangbarber\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Susan Barber\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a high school English teacher in Atlanta, Georgia, teaches the poem during election season. Her students are all seniors, many of whom have the opportunity to vote for the first time. For them, the poem “reinforces the idea that each vote – their vote – makes a difference,” Barber said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barber encourages students to notice the poet’s use of enjambment and stanza breaks, and to unpack the metaphor of an eagle and an eaglet learning to fly. “I love the way that Nezhukumatathil turns to nature imagery as a means to understanding ideas and daily occurrences,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“Perhaps the World Ends Here” by Joy Harjo\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With its descriptions of the many life experiences that occur around a kitchen table, Barber said \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49622/perhaps-the-world-ends-here\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">this poem\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is full of juxtapositions and contrasts for students to unpack.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I love the way Harjo sizes up life through a common object,” Barber said of the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/07/1034751793/poet-laureate-warrior-joy-harjo\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">former United State Poet Laureate\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> who was the first Native American to hold that title. “Everyone can relate to the table and experiences around the table, so students always enjoy this poem.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barber said the poem connects to the idea of “breaking bread” and can lead to discussions of the intimacy of eating together. She loves to teach it close to Thanksgiving break, when students are anticipating family gatherings at kitchen tables.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“A New National Anthem” by Ada Limón\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/CzaiaZach\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zach Czaia\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, an English teacher in Minneapolis, Minnesota, said he loves that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147506/a-new-national-anthem\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">this poem\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “talks back to a ‘classic’ text” – the national anthem. “It empowers students in a college prep course to exercise their own voices, and feel like they, too, belong. Their voice, too, matters,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Czaia focuses on diction with this poem, using an exercise from the Teach Living Poets website that asks students to make concentric circles on butcher paper and choose the most important word from the poem to place in the center. In the middle circle they list images and personal connections to the central word, and in the outer circle they write about the overall meaning and theme of the poem.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Students have definitely responded positively to this poem, and appreciated its connection to history that they have studied in the past,” Czaia said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“America Is Loving Me To Death” by Michael Kleber-Diggs\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this poem, Kleber-Diggs lays bare the pains of being Black in America. And he does amid what Czaia called “two very accessible but also formally interesting strategies.” The first letters are an acrostic, spelling out the poem’s title. The last word in each line comes from another text – the pledge of allegiance. This latter form is called a “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/golden-shovel-poetic-form\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">golden shovel poem\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” and was created by poet Terrance Hayes and inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This attentiveness to structure and pattern allows students ways to consider Kleber-Diggs’ deep critique of systemic American racism,” Czaia said of the combination of an acrostic and golden shovel. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Czaia uses “America Is Loving Me To Death” as a mentor text for students to write their own golden shovel poems. He said his students love the poem and some have written letters to Kleber-Diggs, who lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota,\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “just across the river” from Czaia’s school. Czaia said Kleber-Diggs has responded to those letters his students also visited his class – something only living poets can do.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“Camaro” by\u003c/b> \u003cb>Phil Kaye\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/theVogelman\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brett Vogelsinger\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, an English teacher in Pennsylvania and author of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Poetry Pauses: Teaching With Poems to Elevate Student Writing in All Genres\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, said his classroom goes quiet after watching Kaye perform \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://buttonpoetry.com/phil-kaye-camaro/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">this spoken word poem\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “Kaye’s delivery adds extra dimension to the words that are already wonderful,” Vogelsinger said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The poem weaves through memories from a childhood crush, a long ago road trip, and a later encounter after a breakup. “It speaks to how moments stick with us for a long time, and reminds us of how sadness and fondness can interact in our memories,” Vogelsinger said. “Students love talking about the way the past elementary school memory and the more recent Camaro memory interact to impact the present moment, and how and why two people can remember (or forget) the same moment differently.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students also can dissect the poet’s use of repetition, flashback, imagery, and figurative language. And, Vogelsinger said, “There will always be at least one student in class who will recognize the sly allusion to E. T. as well!”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>“Burning the Old Year” by Naomi Shihab Nye\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the name might suggest, this is another good \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48597/burning-the-old-year\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">poem\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to teach after winter break. “The imagery is crisp and beautiful and the idea of what we hold onto and let go of is important,” said Vogelsinger. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Metaphors shine in this poem,” Vogelsinger said. After reading the poem, his students discuss the meaning of the two metaphors in the lines “So much of a year is flammable” and “so little is stone.” Then he asks them to respond in their notebooks to two questions:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What do you hope is flammable from last year?\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What do you hope is stone? \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“No one has to share what they write, as this is a more personal prompt, but I close by reminding them how poetry can be a catalyst for reflection like this, to make us slow down and think about our hopes, our priorities and our longings – the things that make us human!” Vogelsinger said. “It’s a potent moment to share together as we reunite in January, and so much more interesting than resolutions.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/64744/14-poems-by-living-poets-to-teach-in-english-class-right-now","authors":["11487"],"categories":["mindshift_193"],"tags":["mindshift_21016"],"featImg":"mindshift_64745","label":"mindshift"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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