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A Civic Imperative for Media Literacy: Moving Teens From Consumption...
Partners highlight the need to combine media literacy and civic education efforts, in order to...
Philly School Media Network Creates Authentic Platforms for Philadelphia Youth
The Philly School Media Network is building partnerships with local teachers and journalists to create...
Another Cause of Inequality: Slow Internet in Schools
By Heidi Moore Using digital tools in the classroom isn’t the future of learning, it’s...
Craft, Curiosity, and Community: Students Find Passion and Relevance Restoring...
A partnership wtih a nearby vintage auto shop creates opportunities for students to reconnect with...
Behind the Camera, Students Document Life and Learning
At Philadelphia’s Workshop School, students are developing media production skills to shape their school community...
Immigrant Teens in the South Bronx Learn the Art of...
Teachers in the South Bronx extend opportunities for student-driven online writing projects through the Youth...
A Lab That Grows Young Writers
An afterschool writing center offers fourth- and fifth-graders the opportunity to explore their creative capacity upon...
Designed Equity: Reflection on Youth-focused Game Jam in South Central...
Educator innovator Antero Garcia shares his observations about a game jam in LA and some...
Become an “Exhibitionist” of Student Learning!
The Share Your Learning campaign advocates for public presentations to give students an authentic audience...
Gen Z Talks About Election 2020
The Let’s Talk About Election 2020 youth media challenge showcase officially opened January 20, 2020—exactly one year...
LEARN Marginal Syllabus (January)—Revising Resistance: A Step Toward Student-Centered Activism
Our January reading describes how one teacher helped students design their own learning, study issues...
Rating News Sources Can Help Limit the Spread of Misinformation
Study shows that expert ratings of news sources had stronger effects on belief than ratings...
LEARN Marginal Syllabus 2019-20 (December)—Miles Morales: Spider-Man and Reimagining the...
Our December text for Marginal Syllabus examines how a book, Miles Morales: Spider-Man, by Jason...
Civic Engagement Starts in the Classroom
KQED, the National Writing Project, and PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs are co-hosting the KQED...
LEARN Marginal Syllabus 2019-20 (November)—Whiteness is a White Problem: Whiteness...
The first reading for our 2019-20 Marginal Syllabus employs racial storytelling as a means to...
Why Annotate? LEARN: Marginal Syllabus 2019-2020
Marginal Syllabus 2019-2020 invites everyone interested in equity to read and annotate online texts with...
From Lines to Networks: Connecting with National Parks for Place-Based...
A spark grant from The Ganz Cooney Foundation provides a unique opportunity to connect National...
Today’s Reasons Why We Need Students to Write for Authentic...
Intentionally and thoughtfully sharing student writing in community and digital spaces helps educators advocate for...
Educating for Informed and Equitable Voting
This online course will focus on trends in youth voting and provide educator participants with...
Study Finds Sizable Impact of Civic Media Literacy Education on...
Information and support for educators willing to take up the important challenge of civic media...
Write Out 2019: Making Stories of People, Place, and Perspectives
#WriteOut with students and educators across the country. Starting Oct 13; hosted by the National...
Why A Makerspace Popped Up in a Museum
Makerspaces in museums hope to improve equity for low-income families and people of color by...
Journalism Fellowship for High School Students
Student Voice is seeking high school students to join its 2019-2020 cohort of journalism fellows....
Deepening the Ways We Engage Youth as (Digital) Citizens
According to the recently released Common Sense Census, approximately six out of ten U.S. K–12...
New Toolkit Shares Best Practices for Achieving Success in Youth-Centered...
"Reclaiming Digital Futures,” a free report and associated website is available for youth organizations to...
Summer Course for Educators Committed to Improving Civic Learning
LEARN WITH MARGINAL SYLLABUS (June)—Even Cinderella Is White: (Re)Centering Black...
The authors of our June reading call out the oppressive ways our society depicts Black...
Green is the New Pink: Young Women Environmentalists in Action
LRNG Innovators supports environmental science program designed for young women in rural communities.
LEARN with Marginal Syllabus (May)—“We Are Not Dirt”: Freirean Counternarratives...
This month we spotlight youth participatory action research and the way youth writing became a...
From Passion to Purpose: 10 Teacher-Led Awards Distributed via the...
With support from John Legend's The Show Me Campaign and the National Writing Project (NWP),...
Deep Center: How a Strong Pedagogy Allows for Improvisation and...
One year ago we were able to invest in this inspiring and transformational work through...
Getting Ready for LGBTSTEM Day
How to celebrate LGBTSTEM Day, an international day celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex,...
