Wide Ruled

16/09/2021

Specialty programs like Olathe USD 233's 21st Century Academies are meant to give students real world learning opportunities that will propel them into a successful future. But how do these programs serve district needs: to fill under-utilized buildings, and how do they serve students? What about the unintentional consequences: when teacher bias meets a bifurcation of the student body into the neighborhood kids and the those that transfer in for the selective specialty programs?

That's what Stephanie Alderman-Oler and Lucas Vincent talk about on this episode. Check it out!

‎Show Wide Ruled, Ep S2, EP5: Magnets, How Do They Work? with Lucas Vincent and Stephanie Alderman-Oler - Sep 14, 2021

17/08/2021

How might we reimagine middle schools to fit the needs of our kids?

Scientists have studied the brains of early adolescents and what motivates middle schoolers. Yet findings aren’t making it into classrooms.

09/08/2021

Recent reports ring the alarm that pandemic learning exacerbated the "achievement gap" between middle/upper income students and low income students and between white students and Black and Latinx students. David Abdullah Muhammad touched on how school funding/resources have contributed to this reality in the most recent episode of Wide Ruled.

Jill Barshay notes: "It’s useful to have a sense of the broad scope of the problem. But nailing down the precise loss for the average American student isn’t nearly as important as figuring out what each student needs. That’s the only way for schools to figure out which children should get the most attention and how to target the right resources to them."

Three new reports on student achievement during the pandemic all point to larger declines in math than in reading and widening gaps between the haves and have-nots. But describing exactly how students are doing academically is proving to be a challenge when school closures and pandemic experiences v...

02/08/2021

David Muhammad is an educator, sensei and rapper. In episode 1 of season 2 of Wide Ruled, Nathaniel and David talk about school demographics, how planning and resources led to differential school reactions to COVID, and a visionary model for how community organizations could partner with schools.

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David Muhammad is an educator, sensei and rapper. In season 2, episode 1 of Wide Ruled, host Nathaniel Bozarth and Muhammad talk about school demographics, h...

29/07/2021

What do you think, if you went to college, was it "the best 4 years of your life"? If you didn't, was it a conscious decision or something that wasn't an option for you?

Dropping out can free you from the sky-high expectations surrounding the "best four years of your life."

23/07/2021

Announcing season 2 of Wide Ruled!

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