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A Civic Imperative for Media Literacy: Moving Teens From Consumption to...
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
Craft, Curiosity, and Community: Students Find Passion and Relevance Restoring Classic...
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 Online...
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 LA
Educator innovator Antero Garcia shares his observations about a game jam in LA and some...
LEARN Marginal Syllabus 2019-20 (December)—Miles Morales: Spider-Man and Reimagining the Canon...
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 in...
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 Science...
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 Audiences
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 Democratic...
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 Digital...
"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 Girls’...
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 and...
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 2019...
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 Teaching...
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,...
LEARN with Marginal Syllabus (April): Cultivating Urban Literacies on Chicago’s South...
Our April reading for Marginal Syllabus spotlights a middle school teacher’s approach to teaching through...
Talking Across Political Differences
When students engage in high-quality discussion they enjoy their classes more and are interested in...
CLMOOC Book Club in March 2019: Affinity Online
During the month of March, join the CLMOOC Book Club in an online learning experience...
Introducing the Teen Hangout at the Loveland Public Library
Teen Hangout, part of the YOUmedia Learning Labs Network, provides afterschool space for youth to...
