Extra Credit assignment in place of final exam
Completion requirements
Opened: Saturday, 28 November 2020, 12:00 AM
Due: Wednesday, 2 December 2020, 11:59 PM
Watch the following Ted Talk by Linda Cliatt-Wayman entitled, "How to Fix a Broken School."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe2nlti47kA
Write a 2-3-page paper comparing her work at Strawberry Mansion High School to "Love Them First: Lessons From Lucy Laney Elementary," Christopher Emdin's book For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood and the Rest of Y'all Too, and Free Lunch by Rex Ogle.
How are all of these works connected? In what ways do they differ? How has watching the documentary and Ted Talk, and reading these books informed your perspective on teaching in general, and on teaching in communities of poverty in particular?