• Articles
Menu
  • Articles
  • Cards
Menu
  • Cards
  • Podcast
Menu
  • Podcast
  • Videos
Menu
  • Videos
  • Journal
Menu
  • Journal
  • Content
    • About Us
    • Staff
    • FAQ
    • Submissions
    • Contact Us
  • Site
    • Print Issues
    • Articles
    • Project Cards
    • Podcast
    • Videos
    • All
Menu
  • Content
    • About Us
    • Staff
    • FAQ
    • Submissions
    • Contact Us
  • Site
    • Print Issues
    • Articles
    • Project Cards
    • Podcast
    • Videos
    • All
Search
Close
  • Home
  • About
  • Journal
  • Podcast
  • Articles
  • Project Cards
  • Videos
  • FAQ
  • Submissions
  • Contact
Menu
  • Home
  • About
  • Journal
  • Podcast
  • Articles
  • Project Cards
  • Videos
  • FAQ
  • Submissions
  • Contact
unboxed_square blue
Search
Close
Play Video

Contributing to the World

VIDEO

Tony Simmons, Executive Director at High School for Recording Arts, talks about the …

FOLLOW US ON YOUTUBE

Contributing to the World

VIDEO

Share on facebook
Share on twitter
Share on linkedin
Share on email
  • June 2, 2017

By

Tony Simmons

Brent Spirnak

Tony Simmons, Executive Director at High School for Recording Arts, talks about the importance of viewing all students as contributors and honoring that they have something to offer the world.

Download Screen Reader Optimized Transcript (.txt)
Download Audio Description of Visuals (.mp3)
View Video Transcript

[MUSIC PLAYING] We don’t see young people coming to the doors. Oh, well, how long have you been out of school? What’s your test score? What’s your IP status? As if we’re there to fix them. We’re looking at the fact that they have already been contributing something to the world.

And we have an opportunity now to engage with them, and to explore that with them, and to honor the parts that we know that comes from a good place. Now once you begin to do that and you begin to build a relationship, you begin to build trust.

We could begin to identify some of the things that may not be so good as happened to them. Or that they may even be expressing that we can then together explore those things and figure out as a learning community, you know, how do we– what are we trying to do? How do we imagine our lives being as we take this life journey?

What do we imagine in our community looking like if we come to it with the highest expectations? And knowing that, they’re empowered to affect change. And music and creativity has been a powerful force for change. And they have those weapons if you will, to make that change.

Tags:  

  • classroom, equity, high school, interviews, student, video, voice

More Videos

Exhibitions – The Student Perspective

Continuous Education for Teachers

Exhibition – The Instructor Perspective

Cycles of Inquiry – PBL Design Kit

Subscribe to the Unboxed newsletter

SUBSCRIBE
hthgse-footer1
  • Home
  • About
  • FAQ
  • Submissions
  • Contact
  • Terms & Conditions
Menu
  • Home
  • About
  • FAQ
  • Submissions
  • Contact
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Articles
  • Print Issues
  • Podcast
  • Video
  • Project Cards
Menu
  • Articles
  • Print Issues
  • Podcast
  • Video
  • Project Cards
  • HTH GSE
  • PBL Essentials
  • PBL Design Kit
Menu
  • HTH GSE
  • PBL Essentials
  • PBL Design Kit

SUBSCRIBE

© HIGH TECH HIGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 2008 - 2021. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Signup to receive news, announcements, educational resources, and more!