Lisa deftly navigated our questions on teenagers, girls, and why adults are so wonky around adolescents. She opens her new book, Untangled, with this line:
“We need a new way to talk about teenage girls, because the way people do it now isn’t fair to girls or helpful to their parents.”
Lisa gets kids and loves them. She ends the show with a challenge that you won’t want to miss. We appreciated when she told us in our interactions with kids, “it’s not about you [the adult].” It helps orient our views on kids to remember that their behaviors may seem strange, but they rarely have to do with us as adults, and have to do with them working on their own development, a natural series of events.
Lisa is a great sharer of knowledge. We can’t wait to have her back on the show. Don’t miss her online spaces:
After hiatus since last year, 21st Century Learning is back! Alex, Vinnie, and arvind checked in with what they have been up to this school year, in particular, what they have been learning.
Some of the resources shared today included:
Alex
Undoing Racism – People’s Institute for Survial and Beyond
CARLE Institute – Critical Analysis of Race and Learning in Education
Alex, Vinnie, and arvind bring in the close of 2014 with the year’s final episode. We discuss some of our goals and aspirations for the break and for the next year. Tune in one last time in 2014.
Vinnie and arvind talk about the People of Color Conference, Student Diversity Leadership Conference, and the current state of protests in New York, the show of force by the NYPD outside of arvind’s school, and the impact on students and faculty.
Alex and arvind discuss the book “The Charisma Myth” by Olivia Fox Cabane and how people can learn to build their charisma through practicing skills around presence, power, and warmth.
21st Century Learning is back for the 2014-15 school year. Vinnie’s got a new job, and Alex and arvind are ready to go with new ideas. We’ll be back on the every other week schedule, and can’t wait to have some new guests, and welcomed long-time listeners. Find us on Twitter @alexragone@vvrotny and @arvind
Our end of school year show! Vinnie has a new job, arvind has a new schedule to make, we all talk a little about Ariel Norling’s sexual assault at ISTE, and some of the subsequent coverage and work that her reporting has inspired, including an upcoming code of conduct for NYCIST, and maybe, NYSAIS.