Author: Adam F.C. Fletcher
-
Dying Schools or Meaningless learning?
In this post, Adam considers the reality that public schools often overlook their necessary evolution due to AI and school choice. Instead of fearing obsolescence, I think schools should prioritize Meaningful Student Involvement and this article shares why.
-
Making Learning Meaningful
The importance of transparency in education is emphasized as essential for fostering student engagement and ownership of learning. It challenges traditional methods, advocating for students as active, equitable partners in their educational journey.
-
Engaging Youth At Home
In our complicated world we need more democratic and engaged people, everywhere, all of the time. This has never been more pressing than NOW. We often look to schools and civic institutions to take on this challenge, but we’re missing the point: The most powerful and fundamental starting point is right within our own homes…
-
Teach students about schools
K-12 schools must embrace Meaningful Student Involvement to empower students as active participants in their education, combating AI irrelevance and supporting democratic engagement.
-
We Need to Teach Democracy Skills
As my friend Cynthia McDermott and I established in our 2023 book Democracy Deficit Disorder, there are A LOT of missing pieces throughout our democratic societies today, and as we’re seeing right now, these have a massive impact on our society. Among other things, we need to teach democracy skills. The skills for democracy go…
-
Stop Being An Armchair Democrat
This post explores ways that young people are moving past being “armchair democrats” by practically, purposefully and powerfully engaging in democracy everyday instead of waiting for election years.
-
Defining Democracy With Young People
This is an exploration of the way young people experience democracy today, and what can be done to support them.
-
5 Ways To Be More Democratic
This article explores practical, meaningful and purposeful ways organizations can become more democratic.
-
When Democracy Isn’t Democratic
Democracy isn’t democratic when our institutions don’t reflect it. We must do better, and my firsthand experience has shown me that we can do better.
-
The Power of Improvisational Teaching
In 2015 the following authors argued against the standardization of the education classroom. In 2024 this argument can be made with even greater emphasis. What did they say then? They make is clear that the classroom is not a place with standardized youth but rather a room full of unique individuals with a variety of…
Progressive Teachers Network 