Every year, Girl Scouts of the Green and White Mountains invites girls ages 15-18 to join our Girls Rock the Capitol Program as interns! Girls work side-by-side with female State Representatives in Vermont to get a behind-the-scenes look at state government, learn about advocacy, and how to enact change in the world. This year’s program…
A Few Places to Find Films: Films For Action Media Education Foundation 10 Other Sites Some Possible Documentaries to Watch: Environmental Issues Do The Math – (Trailer) A Place at the Table – (Trailer) Gasland – (Trailer) Tapped – (Trailer) Water – (Trailer) The Island President – (Trailer) No Impact Man – (Trailer) Dirt! The…
Check out each resource and answer the related question(s)… Teachers can find answers here (you will need a password to access this page, feel free to email me from your school account – mhenchen@wwsu.org) http://climate.nasa.gov/index 1) What are the key indicators of climate change? 2) What is the current level of Carbon Dioxide in the…
As part of this year’s CSC class, students conducted VOX Pop interviews with people in the local community about the future of Central Vermont. The videos were collected in collaboration with the Central Vermont Regional Planning Commission (CVRP). One of the goals of Plan Central Vermont is to “to create an open and engaging public…
Hackschooling is a term used to describe the process by which a student takes control of his or her education and makes it work for them. In this amazing TEDx talk 13 year old Logan LaPlante discusses how he has accomplished this – with a lot of help from many mentors in his community. Wouldn’t…
Diane Ravitch vs. Michelle Rhee – Where do you stand? Great Articles: From the New York Review of Books – http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/oct/10/rhee-ravitch-two-faces-american-education/ From the Huffington Post – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elaine-weiss/ravitchs-reign-rhee-radical_b_4079732.html Diane Ravitch Michelle Rhee Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools by Diane Ravitch Knopf, 396 pp., $27.95…
Utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill once argued, “It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinions, it is because they only know their side of the question.” I hate to…
Voting rates in the U.S. are dismal and the rates of youth voting are even worse? In a country that prides itself on being “one of the world’s greatest democracies” what are public schools doing to help our students learn the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to be positive, productive, and engaged democratic citizens? What…
Check out this great VOX POP on the lack of political engagement in the U.S. Related Video
