EXPERIENCE COLORADO COLLEGE STUDENTS' YOUTH ORGANIZING CURRICULUM
ABOUT US
Using Critical Pedagogy to Inspire Change
We are Colorado College students in a class about Youth Organizing and Social Change. We have been assigned to create an 8-10 week curriculum designed to teach high school students about a social issue we find important and that has direct impacts on their community. The topic we chose for our curriculum is Policing in Schools and the School to Prison Pipeline. We plan to teach students and engage with them about the relevance of this issue in our society and the systems of oppression at work that cause the school to prison pipeline. We have created a 10 week curriculum plan including a week of daily lesson plans. We hope to use critical pedagogy and Freire's theory of liberation to engage and empower the students to be critical of the world around them and find their voice to make real change.
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Project Voyce is an organization created by students, for students, to make an attempt to foster equitable youth-adult partnerships and feel like they had a voice in the decisions that are made about their educational experience. Their motto is "nothing about us, without us" as they strive to be a youth advocacy and leadership group. Click the title link for more.
Almost 8,000 people turned out for the Worldwide Climate Strike in Denver last Friday to raise awareness about global warming and climate change in light of the upcoming United Nations Climate Action Summit and nationwide political elections. On a sweaty and viciously hot day in Denver, the weather proved to be a fitting backdrop for the circumstances that brought Coloradans together to march down 16th Street Mall from Union Station to the Colorado State Capitol building. Click the title link for more.