Normal schooling is not meant for everyone. For some people, homeschooling is a better option. Earlier the concept of homeschooling was unique but it’s no more that uncommon. Rather, it is becoming people’s choice at a rate like never before. But people have doubts; they think that homeschoolers have poor communication. People misunderstand the nature… Read More »
The local school presents many advantages to the local residents. The proximity to school makes it convenient to drop off your kids. Maybe the school is just at a walking distance. But the convenience offered by this school cannot trump even one thing. What if the school under-performs? Now, the big question that pops up… Read More »
Tri-County Educational Center (TCEC) is an alternative school for Metro Detroit, serving young people who have either dropped out or been expelled from other school districts. DFS teaching artist Nate Mullen worked with classroom teachers Adelaide Fabiilli and Brooke Leiberman and 9th through 12th grade graphic design students to create a “data mural”, which used… Read More »
At the James and Grace Lee Boggs school, DFS teaching artist Alicia López Castañeda worked with classroom teacher Liz Kirk and the “Painted Turtles,” a mixed 2nd-3rd grade class. They spent the first semester shaping the classroom culture around the DFS Rida framework, exploring the DFS “11 essential skills” and digital media such as photography… Read More »
Our Guide to transformative education got some [love] from Christopher Rogers in a recent blog post at the National Writing Project Digital’s Digital is site “I [heart] Detroit Future Schools: The Guide to Transformative Education – See more at: http://digitalis.nwp.org/site-blog/i-heart-detroit-future-schools-guide-transformative-education/6073
Detroit Future Schools is now in its fourth year of facilitating in-school media programming and teacher professional development with the goal of humanizing education in Detroit. We work in a small number of anchor schools to develop and evaluate core instructional elements and practices. And this year we’re also excited to be launching a new… Read More »
In early August, we convened 20 educators from Metro Detroit to kick off the 2016 Rida Institute at our three-day summer retreat. The Rida Institute is a year-long training for educators with a focus on critical pedagogy. At the summer retreat, we spent three days exploring and experiencing what “humanizing schooling” means to us as… Read More »
DFS is launching our second Out of School Project in May 2017. The OSP Summer Workshop will take place from May – August 2017, and is led by DFS youth researchers Alondra Castañeda, Wayne Bussey II and Issra Killawi. Check out the info and application below: WHAT As part of furthering our work to humanize… Read More »