Thriving Minds

After teaching back to back Mini-Lessons in my Curriculum in Middle and High School class, here is evidence of my learning including a description, analysis, and reflection of the process. You can find the DAR at this link

After attending both the screening of the movie "Girl Rising", and the author talk with Tanya Lee Stone, I had several important take-aways from the experiences. The first is the incredible privilege that receiving an education is. Starting with my reading of the book, and supported by the girls stories in the movie-- I realized that an education, and knowledge is what most of these girls yearned for the most. This put being a future educator in a whole new perspective. I will be responsible for the education that actual, real life students, will receive-- an experience that some children (and adults) both domestic and abroad desire more than anything. The second take away was the importance of educating people on what they can do to help. Tanya opened her author talk with an anecdote of going to see the movie Girl Rising with her daughter and her friends. She had not yet written the book, but was inspired to do so when she asked her daughter and her friends a few months late