Educator & Student Voices
Hot Takes: Listen, Learn, Respond
This activity invites participants to broaden their context about what it means to be a writer. It encourages growth through practice and self-management as ideas arise through the prompting of music.
Speak Truth: The Morality of Wealth
Speak Truth students analyze wealth inequalities in the modern age, as seen through the lens of A Christmas Carol.
Speak Truth: Gentrification
How has gentrification impacted you? Many students at this Speak Truth session spoke of the impacts on the communities they call home.
Speak Truth: Cancel Culture
Students debated the efficacy of cancel culture in this recent Speak Truth discussion, noting its particular implications for their generation.
Speak Truth: Want Student Engagement? Be Current.
On Thursday, November 5, students from throughout the greater Washington, DC area gathered to discuss the topic, “COVID and Voter Suppression.”
Speak Truth: The Dehumanization of Black Women
“I think it’s so important that we don’t bubble wrap things for teenagers. We deserve the provocative.” – Adena, Elizabeth Seton High School, 12th Grade
Getting Schooled in Debate
This is the moment to ensure our students experience an education in which they engage in civic discourse, active listening, and thoughtful debate, on topics that are comfortable and those that are uncomfortable.
“Teaching is a huge part of my identity.”
Cheyenne Gartin is a teacher at Paul Public Charter school where she is a new teacher on staff. She shared the following insights with us and with students during a recent Speak Truth seminar.
Speak Truth: Destigmatizing Mental Health
What do young people think about the state of mental health in the United States? In our latest Speak Truth seminar we found out.
Speak Truth: The Value of Perspective
The opportunity to engage in discussion around issues that impact their lives happens too infrequently for students, but Speak Truth offers a safe space for doing so.
