Share Your Voice
Help us paint a shared national picture that describes what powerful learning environments, highly effective teachers, and a fair and equitable public school system actually look like.
To do so, take a few minutes to reflect on and then write responses to any -- or all -- of the following prompts. If you chose to write more than once, please submit the story for each category separately.
Learning, Teaching, Fairness
- Share a powerful personal experience in a learning community. It could be a club, a church group, a school experience, a course, or something else. The only criteria are that it was a positive experience and real learning occurred.
- Who was your most effective teacher, and what was it about that person that made him or her so effective in helping you learn?
- To ensure that every child receives a high-quality public education, does the federal government need to make the equal opportunity to learn a constitutional right? Or is there a better, less drastic alternative toward ensuring fairness that policymakers should consider?
Once you're finished, please proofread your piece and then choose a profile photo and click Submit Your Story. The web site will update its bank of stories approximately every hour, so check back to see that yours has been added to the list.
(Although there is no minimum or maximum word count, the average story runs between 250 and 1,000 words.)