TTT#612 Youth pitch their plans for social change in letters to allies or opponents
Channel: Paul Allison
Date: 01/05/2019

Join Nina Portugal, a teacher from Life Academy High School in Oakland, California will be our guest on Teachers Teaching Teachers on Wednesday evening, May 1st, 8E/7C/6M/5P at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt

Two great ways to meet Nina if you don't know her yet:

Confronting the Monster Under the Bed: Integrating Blogging into the Classroom https://www.teachingchannel.org/blog/2018/05/14/integrating-blogging
The Oakland Teachers Strike Hits Home https://blog.summersearch.org/2019/04/15/the-oakland-teachers-strike-hits-home/
Nina is back in class (after a recent strike in Oakland), and her students have recently posted Upstander Letters on Youth Voices. See Upstander posts from this year and last year as well here: https://www.youthvoices.live/category/civic-engagement/upstander/



Nina recently wrote:

My students just posted their Upstander Project Letters and we would love some comments. Here is a spreadsheet with links. I will actually be talking a bit more about it on TTT Wednesday. 

But the project asks students to select an issue they want to be an upstander for, research the issue, write a letter to an ally or opponent and pitch their plan for social change. They are also evaluating the effectiveness of their plan, and part of that is having people see their published work and comment.

Any and all comments would be so helpful.



Thank you so much in advance and we would love to support back in any way we can (our year ends May 10th!).

Thank you so much! 

Nina!

Please plan to join Nina on Wednesday evening, May 1st, 8E/7C/6M/5P. Fifteen minutes before  we go live, we'll post a link that you can use to join us in a Hangout at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt