June

June 2020 (20 Articles)

• How TikTok is Shaping Politics: A New York Times Q&A With TC’s Ioana Literat

• Now More Than Ever: The 2020 Reimagining Education Summer Institute

  Moving online and focusing on COVID and racial justice

• Hope as Practice

  Angel Acosta prescribes healing-centered education and structural change for a nation torn by racism and hate

• Bright Colors on a World Canvas

  In the world’s largest refugee camps, Max Frieder is using art to fight COVID and gender-based violence and heal the scars of genocide

• The Ethical Technologist

  In guiding Fieldston School’s transition to online learning, new Assistant Principal Kenny Graves has modeled how to bridge the technology divide

• A Call for New York State to Dramatically Improve Media Literacy Education

  Students must be media literate to be democracy ready, asserts a new report from a coalition of civic and education organizations convened by a TC center

• A Brain-Based Treatment for COVID Anxiety

  TC’s Douglas Mennin is testing a modified form of Emotional Regulation Therapy

• New Study Shows Americans Concerned About the Pandemic's Effect on Learning

• On a Quest Against Illiteracy

  From Colombia to the South Bronx, Victoria Henry Cervantes is giving young people access to the written word

• Don’t Blame the Victims

  A new book edited by TC’s Mariana Souto-Manning argues that “a rhetoric of failure” has “sanctioned inequity”

• Grief and Outrage, Tempered by Hope

  More than 400 attend TC’s virtual gathering in response to systemic racism

• Informed Activism Is the Best Policy

  D.L. Moffitt is taking the fight to improve education to the policy arena

• Better Trainings Won’t End Police Brutality

  Writing in The Hill, TC’s Peter Coleman urges a systemic approach

• Staying Plugged In

  Detra Price-Dennis has provided hope and counsel to K-12 teachers during a daunting time

• “The Fight against Racism and Inequity Isn’t Part of Our Mission – It Is Our Mission”

  Responding to brutal murders and “centuries of unhealed wounds,” TC voices sound a call for action

• “An Ordinary Person, Doing Something Extraordinary”

  In charting his education career, Eddie Ortiz has channeled a courageous teacher who risked all

• Leveraging Media Literacy to Pursue Social Justice

  In TC’s MASCLab, Azsaneé Truss decided to fight for social justice — as a college professor

• Finding Identity by Helping Others Build It

  Joey Eisman has tapped fields from neuroscience to Jewish education to help young people engage and grow

• Daring to Change Group Dynamics

  Zad El-Makkaoui decided at 17 to be an organizational psychologist. TC gave her the tools for the field’s toughest challenges

• A Revolution in Real Time

  A message from Erica Walker, Director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME)