When reading this, it’s tempting to say “Duh!” But my worry is that schools are not allowing
the research on safe environments and student-empowerment to spill over to
curriculum decisions.
In my 35 years of teaching high school English, I gradually
came to understand that by allowing my students to choose most of their reading
material, they read much more, did much better writing on it, and were even,
surprisingly enough, much better behaved.
Student input on school climate decisions is vital, but no
less vital than their input on curriculum decisions.
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