Chapter 10: The Freedom to Teach

What can the larger world of American education take away from one school's experiences?

Complementary Resources for Chapter 10

WATCH

• What if the City Became the School?
• Should Schools Be More or Less Democratic?
• School Sleuth – The Case of an Excellent School
• Hannah: Friendships with Teachers
• Amadeo: I Rely On My Teachers
• Farhan: Nurturing Potential
• The World Becomes What You Teach (Insitute for Humane Education)
• How to Engage Underperforming Students (Edutopia)
• Five Keys to Successful Social and Emotional Learning (Edutopia)
• Administrators, Teaching, and Students Describe Being Part of a Responsive Classroom School Community (NEFC/Responsive Classroom)
• Animal School (Ashoka's Start Empathy Initiative)

READ

• Reimagining Our Schools, NOW
• The (Keynesian) Economics of School Choice
• How Many Sacred Cows Does it Take to Sustain a Movement?
• Democratic Education in Practice: Inside the Mission Hill School (University of Evansville)
• Guide to Working in Diverse Groups (Spirit in Action)
• Empowering Students Through Empathy and Collboration (Edutopia)
• From a Student: Five Way to Empower Students (Edutopia)
• Engaging All Families in Our School Community (Edutopia)
• Education Reform Trhough True Understanding (Edutopia)
• The Abundance Model: Embracing the Whole Child (Edutopia)
• Transormation Begins With Reflection (Edutopia)
• The Seven Characteristics of a Good Leader (Edutopia)
• Teaching Children to Care: Classroom Management for Ethical and Academic Growth K-8 (NEFC/Responsive Classroom)
• The Missing Piece: A National Teacher survey on How Social and Emotional Learning Can Empower Children and Transform School (CASEL)
• Good Teaching Changes the Future (NEFC/Responsive Classroom)
• A Year at Mission Hill: Schooling by the People, for the People (Ashoka's Start Empathy Initiative)

LISTEN

• Storycorps "National Teachers Initiative" (Eagle Rock School and Professional Development Center)

DO

• Nominate an Ashoka Changemaker School like Mission Hill (Ashoka's Start Empathy Initiative)
• Come to the Responsive Classroom Leadership Conference (NEFC/Responsive Classroom)