Category: Reflection

• Critical Thinking Part 1

  A lot of people reduce critical thinking to simply telling people that what they’re doing is not enough or inadequate. That’s not what its about. Instead, critical thinking engages people in identifying their assumptions, examining their beliefs, and supporting their personal development before, during, and after their actions. Instead of right and wrong, critical thinking suggests we help shepherd […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  May 23, 2015

  action, activism, critical thinking, learning, Reflection

• Reflecting on Baltimore

  I have never been in a riot. I do love Baltimore though, and in all my travels I’ve become most attached to that city. Growing up in a working class African American neighborhood in the Midwest, I constantly heard stories about the riots that destroyed my community in the 1960s and 1970s. I didn’t believe it […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  April 29, 2015

  activism, Adam Fletcher, Reflection, social change

• Continuing to Learn from Meaningful Student Involvement

  

  Since 2002, working through SoundOut, I have worked with more than 10,000 K-12 students and educators in schools across the United States and Canada. Over the last year, I have been a bit consumed by writing the Meaningful Student Involvement Handbook. Its my complete compendium of what I have learned about engaging students as partners throughout the […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  April 10, 2015

  Adam Fletcher, Meaningful Student Involvement, Reflection

  meaningful student involvement, schools, student voice