Every day my students are becoming more and more empowered, and it is so exciting to watch. Today I have two small, yet exciting stories that illustrate this point. This morning three students were working on fundraising ideas to help defray the cost of international travel for our team who will be going to Nicaragua to meet our partners in March, and they came up with an idea that tied into homecoming. I asked them who was in charge of homecoming and they told me, so I put the ball back in their court and asked them to write an email to that teacher explaining what they wanted to do and why. Within 45 minutes, that teacher was standing at our door saying how exciting it was to have gotten an email directly from the students and how thrilled she would be to tie that fundraising idea into homecoming. The three girls were proud and the teacher was excited to be involved too . . . score #1!
This afternoon I was teaching a different group of students, when one of my UNLOCK students bounced in the door and said "I have something that we have to watch in the morning." I asked her what it was and she showed me a preview of a spoken word poem that is being released tomorrow and it ties directly into our work. She was super excited and after I saw the preview I was excited too. When my students are the ones bringing the content to me, that is pretty amazing . . . score#2!
I'd say today was a pretty great day :)
No comments:
Post a Comment