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Got it!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yup, it’s time again for \u003ca href=\"http://npr.org/studentpodcastchallenge\">NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge\u003c/a>. And we’re here to announce the opening bell of year six of this annual competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our first half-decade, we’ve listened to more than 15,000 podcasts, from more than 80,000 young people all over the country. You’ve explored serious issues, like the pandemic lockdown and how it affected learning and mental health; how our changing climate is impacting your lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other students, including a number of our winners, have poured into their microphones deeply personal stories, about their families, their hometowns, or their identities. Among the great podcasts that we remember years later are stories about race, gender, disabilities, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1187626149/the-sunday-story-the-kids-have-something-to-say\">struggle of being a young person in these troubled times\u003c/a>. And along the way students have, of course, remembered to \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2023/06/30/npr-student-podcast-challenge\">bring us the joy and fun and excitement\u003c/a> they see in their lives and their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On our end, we’ve listened to your feedback each year – great suggestions that have brought our ongoing College Podcast Challenge, and a special prize last year for the best podcast about mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, we’ve got a big new change: Since the beginning, the contest has been open for students in grades five through 12. But each year, we’ve heard from elementary teachers asking, what about my younger kids?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, in response to that popular demand, from elementary teachers, we are introducing our \u003cstrong>first-ever fourth grade contest! \u003c/strong>So if you teach or work with fourth graders – please consider podcasting with your students and entering our contest!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sixth annual Student Podcast Challenge is now open for entries starting \u003cstrong>Feb. 2, 2024\u003c/strong> and will close on \u003cstrong>May 3, 2024\u003c/strong>. Our judges will choose winners in three categories: \u003cstrong>grade four, grades five through eight, and grades nine through 12\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in the past, entries must be submitted by a teacher, educator, or mentor who is 18 years or older. And don’t forget all the tips, advice and lesson plans we’ve compiled over the years – more on that below. \u003cem>\u003cstrong>Especially the rules around the maximum length of eight minutes, and about the use of music\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em> (\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/15/662979069/npr-student-podcast-challenge-official-rules\">You can find the contest rules here.\u003c/a>) After years of listening to student podcasts, we’ve learned that shorter is better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, for our college podcasters, we’ll be announcing finalists and the winner of the 2023 College Podcast Challenge in the next month. So please keep an eye out! The college edition will return this fall with a $5,000 grand prize and $500 prizes for finalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contest rules remain pretty much the same: Students can create a podcast about any topic they wish to explore. To give you an idea, we’ve listened to stories on everything from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/16/1098786005/middle-school-winners-npr-student-podcast-contest\">social media\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/16/1017879531/dont-judge-these-teens-by-their-tattoos\">tattoos\u003c/a> to even \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/rodney-west-estell/amelias-storytelling/s-3gS1X9Y0BFO?si=12e97c079c4743eea645e07ffe2a7339&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing\">fictional tales\u003c/a>. Some themes we’ve seen over and over include \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/17/1028353571/who-runs-the-world-kids\">questions on race and identity\u003c/a> and how young people \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/transcripts/704860132\">do, or don’t, fit in\u003c/a>. Your podcast can also be in many different formats: an interview, narrative story or even investigative reporting. You can do it by yourself or with your entire class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help you get started, we’ve got a slew of podcasting resources on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/13/1055572907/how-to-tell-a-great-story\">how to tell a good story\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/07/1053294692/warm-up-time\">how to warm up your voice\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/02/13/805858075/everything-you-need-to-know-about-using-music-in-your-podcast\">how to use music in your podcast\u003c/a>, among other topics. Even, and we’re serious about this: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/10/794201416/how-a-pillow-fort-can-make-your-podcast-sound-better\">how making a pillow fort \u003c/a>can make you sound better!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find more tips and tricks on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510354/the-students-podcast\">The Students’ Podcast\u003c/a>, our podcast on how to make a good podcast. We also encourage you to get a feel for what we’re looking for by listening to last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1181726312/student-podcast-challenge-2023-high-school-winner\">high school winner\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1182424027/student-podcast-challenge-2023-middle-school-winner\">middle school winners\u003c/a>. And previous years’ winners’ \u003ca href=\"http://npr.org/studentpodcastchallenge\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more tips, advice and the latest updates on this year’s contest, make sure to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/newsletter/student-podcast-challenge\">sign up for our newsletter\u003c/a>. Students, we can’t wait to hear your stories. Good luck!\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=NPR%27s+Student+Podcast+Challenge+is+back+%E2%80%93+with+a+fourth-grade+edition%21&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/63079/nprs-student-podcast-challenge-is-back-with-a-fourth-grade-edition","authors":["byline_mindshift_63079"],"categories":["mindshift_20579","mindshift_195"],"tags":["mindshift_21685","mindshift_20779","mindshift_20624"],"featImg":"mindshift_63080","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_62566":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_62566","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"62566","score":null,"sort":[1696709877000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-kids-are-making-sense-of-climate-change-and-extreme-weather","title":"How kids are making sense of climate change and extreme weather","publishDate":1696709877,"format":"standard","headTitle":"How kids are making sense of climate change and extreme weather | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>When three fifth-graders in Washington state sat down to make a podcast, they didn’t have to look far to find a good topic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wildfires are a problem and they’re dangerous,” they say in their podcast from Chautauqua Elementary School, on Vashon Island. “But there’s ways to prevent them, so respect wildfire safety precautions and do your best to prevent these fires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/erin-kealy-546152272/wildfire-set-ablaze?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing\">This entry\u003c/a> from Roz Hinds, Jia Khurana and Sadie Pritsky was among more than 100 podcasts this year in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/662609200/npr-student-podcast-challenge\">NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge\u003c/a> that touched on a topic that’s increasingly important to young people: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1199537689/climate-week\">climate change\u003c/a>. Over and over again, student journalists tried making sense of extreme weather events that are becoming more common or more intense: flash floods, hurricanes, droughts, wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are four student podcasts that offer a glimpse into the minds of students and what they have to say about climate-related news in their communities — and what they hope to do about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/andrea-brown-29328181/gt-fire-final?si=138ad790033e4391acc62d2a07d2db01&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Behind the Scenes of the Mosquito Fire\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>In a 10-episode series, a sixth-grade class at the Georgetown School of Innovation in Georgetown, Calif., shares stories from the devastating \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/10/1122195246/california-heat-wave-kay-mosquito-firehttps://www.npr.org/2022/09/10/1122195246/california-heat-wave-kay-mosquito-fire\">Mosquito\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/10/1122195246/california-heat-wave-kay-mosquito-firehttps://www.npr.org/2022/09/10/1122195246/california-heat-wave-kay-mosquito-fire\">Fire in 2022\u003c/a>. 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The students also interview experts and share their research on wildfire precautions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/peak-academy-965420380/newer-flowing-through-time\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Flowing Through Time: The Past, Present, and Future of Water\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>In this podcast from Peak Academy, a group of eight middle schoolers reports on dealing with water shortages in Bozeman, Montana. They trace the history of their growing hometown’s water supply, which has been dependent on mountain snowmelt. 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The three classmates at Morgan County High School in West Liberty, Ky., share firsthand accounts of their own and their family’s experiences during the floods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Audio story produced by Michael Levitt\u003cbr>\nVisual design and development by LA Johnson\u003cbr>\nEdited by Steve Drummond and Rachel Waldholz\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=How+kids+are+making+sense+of+climate+change+and+extreme+weather&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"For NPR's Student Podcast Challenge, more than 100 students shared how they're thinking about and responding to climate change.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1697142832,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":449},"headData":{"title":"How kids are making sense of climate change and extreme weather | KQED","description":"For NPR's Student Podcast Challenge, more than 100 students shared how they're thinking about and responding to climate change.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"For NPR's Student Podcast Challenge, more than 100 students shared how they're thinking about and responding to climate change.","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"How kids are making sense of climate change and extreme weather","datePublished":"2023-10-07T20:17:57.000Z","dateModified":"2023-10-12T20:33:52.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"nprImageCredit":"Angela Hsieh","nprByline":"Janet W. 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As that source becomes less reliable in a warming world, the students turn to the grown-ups to ask what they can do to conserve water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/carolina-johnson-176832121/washed-away-1?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=1&si=4547ECA9C74449CE8C5AD8926CA14533&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Washed Away\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/13/1122042884/a-month-after-record-flooding-a-crooked-road-lies-ahead-for-eastern-kentucky\">deadly flooding in eastern Kentucky\u003c/a> last year forever changed the lives of high schoolers Ryley Bowman, Carolina Johnson and Hunter Noble. 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To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=How+kids+are+making+sense+of+climate+change+and+extreme+weather&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/62566/how-kids-are-making-sense-of-climate-change-and-extreme-weather","authors":["byline_mindshift_62566"],"categories":["mindshift_21508"],"tags":["mindshift_21124","mindshift_21778","mindshift_21819","mindshift_21822","mindshift_74","mindshift_21685","mindshift_20624","mindshift_21821","mindshift_21820"],"featImg":"mindshift_62567","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_61868":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_61868","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"61868","score":null,"sort":[1687357042000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"student-podcasters-share-the-dark-realities-of-middle-school-in-america","title":"Student podcasters share the dark realities of middle school in America","publishDate":1687357042,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Student podcasters share the dark realities of middle school in America | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>School shootings, social media, beauty standards and fast-changing fashion trends – say that five times fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adolescence has always been tough, but the acceleration of modern forces makes it more stressful than ever. In the words of two San Francisco best friends – the middle school winners of this year’s \u003ca href=\"https://studentpodcastchallenge23.splashthat.com/\">NPR Student Podcast Challenge\u003c/a> – welcome to \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/nwey/middle-schools-now\">\u003cem>Middle School Now\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a classroom at Presidio Middle School, not far from the Golden Gate Bridge, 13-year-olds Erika Young and Norah Weiner sat down to tell us about their podcast. It is one of two Grand Prize winners chosen by our judges from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/16/1182801008/student-podcast-challenge-2023-finalists\">more than 3,300 submissions\u003c/a> from 48 states, as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two friends just finished the seventh grade, but haven’t been separated yet — they have seen each other every day since school let out. Norah shows up to our interview wearing boots that she borrowed from Erika for the special occasion. Their giddy laughter fills the empty school, their energy fueled by the knowledge that, in just a few days, they’re off to summer camp together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While our high school winner this year tackled a big local news story, with reporting from students and educators, Erika and Norah took on a more universal experience – the ups and downs of being a middle-schooler today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gun violence, social media and mental health are literally shaping middle school,” Erika says in their podcast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They walk listeners through their day-to-day lives – everything from school lockdowns to TikTok dances in the bathroom – and how life in middle school today is different from when their English teacher, Jenny Chio, was a student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went through it, and you guys are going through it,” says Chio, comparing her youth with the experience of today’s students. “I think it’s the same amount of pressure, but just amplified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing our judges loved about this podcast is the way the students wove in national trends with what’s happening in their own school and community. They interviewed their classmates and teachers about heavy topics that are, unfortunately, also a part of their daily lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like lockdown drills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A grim reality for middle school students and teachers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61870\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-61870 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/screen-shot-2023-06-12-at-10.39.50-am_vert-cc12674c0313a0fb012d672c04596b900c0d524e-160x213.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/screen-shot-2023-06-12-at-10.39.50-am_vert-cc12674c0313a0fb012d672c04596b900c0d524e-160x213.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/screen-shot-2023-06-12-at-10.39.50-am_vert-cc12674c0313a0fb012d672c04596b900c0d524e.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norah Weiner \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Erika and Norah say they’ve had lockdown drills since early elementary school, but recently, their middle school had one that wasn’t just a drill – prompted by an unknown event nearby. Although everyone was fine, the experience still made the girls think differently about their relationship to school shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can promise you that every child in our sixth- through eighth-grade school has imagined who they’d be in a shooting,” Norah says in the podcast. “Would they run? Would they hide?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In interviews, their classmates share what they think they’d do in a school shooting: “I would run home and call the police”; “Find somewhere to hide and then just stay there”; “I’d try to text my parents and tell them, if anything bad happened, I love them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61871\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-61871 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/screen-shot-2023-06-12-at-10.39.28-am_vert-dd6b4d86d2b8db6acd87fc0323afeee7ca4d3c25-160x213.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/screen-shot-2023-06-12-at-10.39.28-am_vert-dd6b4d86d2b8db6acd87fc0323afeee7ca4d3c25-160x213.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/screen-shot-2023-06-12-at-10.39.28-am_vert-dd6b4d86d2b8db6acd87fc0323afeee7ca4d3c25.png 383w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erika Young \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chio, on the other hand, can’t remember ever having an active shooter drill when she was in middle or high school. The only emergency drills back then revolved around natural disasters: earthquakes or hurricanes. But she’s all too familiar with lockdowns these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The student journalists asked her to show them the emergency kit in her classroom, which among other items, has one surprising ingredient: cat litter. Chio says that if a lockdown lasted for several hours, she could use it, along with other toiletries, to create a DIY bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TikTok as middle-school trend-setter \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, there \u003cem>is\u003c/em> more to middle school than lockdowns. One force that dominates both their virtual and in-person world? TikTok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nowadays, when walking to school, you’ll see girls literally surrounding the building who are dancing,” Norah says in the podcast. “The dances look kind of weird because they’ve likely come from TikTok.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erika adds, “You can’t hear the music. And so you just see kids, like, moving their arms over their heads and like just dancing around. They look like jellyfish, and it’s really funny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61872\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/n0a1490.psd-c3cbf132e5268523ee1e6630a74868f68b1dadc4-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/n0a1490.psd-c3cbf132e5268523ee1e6630a74868f68b1dadc4-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/n0a1490.psd-c3cbf132e5268523ee1e6630a74868f68b1dadc4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/n0a1490.psd-c3cbf132e5268523ee1e6630a74868f68b1dadc4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/n0a1490.psd-c3cbf132e5268523ee1e6630a74868f68b1dadc4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/n0a1490.psd-c3cbf132e5268523ee1e6630a74868f68b1dadc4-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/n0a1490.psd-c3cbf132e5268523ee1e6630a74868f68b1dadc4-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/n0a1490.psd-c3cbf132e5268523ee1e6630a74868f68b1dadc4-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/n0a1490.psd-c3cbf132e5268523ee1e6630a74868f68b1dadc4-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winners of NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge Norah Weiner (left) and Erika Young (center)) with their teacher Jenny Chio (left) at Presidio Middle School, San Francisco, California, June 9th, 2023. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But TikTok’s influence goes beyond their viral dances. “Trends like baggy pants, crop corset tops, curtain bangs, ripped jeans are all instigated from this app,” Erika says in their podcast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These rapidly shifting, and far-reaching trends are an inevitable part of the middle school experience, especially since the return to the classroom after the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been to different states, and people there dress exactly the same as they do here, kids my age and it’s really weird,” Erika says. “Because I thought different places had different things that were popular.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chio remembers well that feeling of trying to keep up with the latest trends, and failing. She and her students bonded over that losing battle to be “cool” in middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like I’m going to be uncool no matter what,” Norah laughs, “so maybe I should just stick with what I’m doing right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But luckily, the friends have each other to make it through. And what they are doing right now, making a podcast and amplifying their classmates’ voices, is still pretty cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To listen to Erika and Norah’s podcast, click \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/nwey/middle-schools-now\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Visual design and development by: LA Johnson\u003cbr>\nAudio story produced by: Janet Woojeong Lee & Lauren Migaki\u003cbr>\nAudio and digital story edited by: Steve Drummond\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Student+podcasters+share+the+dark+realities+of+middle+school+in+America&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"School shootings, social media, beauty standards. 13-year-olds Erika Young and Norah Weiner delve into what middle school looks like today in their award-winning podcast.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1687357208,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1040},"headData":{"title":"Student podcasters share the dark realities of middle school in America | KQED","description":"School shootings, social media, beauty standards. 13-year-olds Erika Young and Norah Weiner delve into what middle school looks like today in their award-winning podcast.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"School shootings, social media, beauty standards. 13-year-olds Erika Young and Norah Weiner delve into what middle school looks like today in their award-winning podcast.","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Student podcasters share the dark realities of middle school in America","datePublished":"2023-06-21T14:17:22.000Z","dateModified":"2023-06-21T14:20:08.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"nprByline":" Sequoia Carrillo, Janet W. 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In the words of two San Francisco best friends – the middle school winners of this year’s \u003ca href=\"https://studentpodcastchallenge23.splashthat.com/\">NPR Student Podcast Challenge\u003c/a> – welcome to \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/nwey/middle-schools-now\">\u003cem>Middle School Now\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a classroom at Presidio Middle School, not far from the Golden Gate Bridge, 13-year-olds Erika Young and Norah Weiner sat down to tell us about their podcast. It is one of two Grand Prize winners chosen by our judges from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/16/1182801008/student-podcast-challenge-2023-finalists\">more than 3,300 submissions\u003c/a> from 48 states, as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two friends just finished the seventh grade, but haven’t been separated yet — they have seen each other every day since school let out. Norah shows up to our interview wearing boots that she borrowed from Erika for the special occasion. Their giddy laughter fills the empty school, their energy fueled by the knowledge that, in just a few days, they’re off to summer camp together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While our high school winner this year tackled a big local news story, with reporting from students and educators, Erika and Norah took on a more universal experience – the ups and downs of being a middle-schooler today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gun violence, social media and mental health are literally shaping middle school,” Erika says in their podcast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They walk listeners through their day-to-day lives – everything from school lockdowns to TikTok dances in the bathroom – and how life in middle school today is different from when their English teacher, Jenny Chio, was a student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went through it, and you guys are going through it,” says Chio, comparing her youth with the experience of today’s students. “I think it’s the same amount of pressure, but just amplified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing our judges loved about this podcast is the way the students wove in national trends with what’s happening in their own school and community. They interviewed their classmates and teachers about heavy topics that are, unfortunately, also a part of their daily lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like lockdown drills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A grim reality for middle school students and teachers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61870\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-61870 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/screen-shot-2023-06-12-at-10.39.50-am_vert-cc12674c0313a0fb012d672c04596b900c0d524e-160x213.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/screen-shot-2023-06-12-at-10.39.50-am_vert-cc12674c0313a0fb012d672c04596b900c0d524e-160x213.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/screen-shot-2023-06-12-at-10.39.50-am_vert-cc12674c0313a0fb012d672c04596b900c0d524e.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norah Weiner \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Erika and Norah say they’ve had lockdown drills since early elementary school, but recently, their middle school had one that wasn’t just a drill – prompted by an unknown event nearby. Although everyone was fine, the experience still made the girls think differently about their relationship to school shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can promise you that every child in our sixth- through eighth-grade school has imagined who they’d be in a shooting,” Norah says in the podcast. “Would they run? Would they hide?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In interviews, their classmates share what they think they’d do in a school shooting: “I would run home and call the police”; “Find somewhere to hide and then just stay there”; “I’d try to text my parents and tell them, if anything bad happened, I love them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61871\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-61871 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/screen-shot-2023-06-12-at-10.39.28-am_vert-dd6b4d86d2b8db6acd87fc0323afeee7ca4d3c25-160x213.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/screen-shot-2023-06-12-at-10.39.28-am_vert-dd6b4d86d2b8db6acd87fc0323afeee7ca4d3c25-160x213.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/screen-shot-2023-06-12-at-10.39.28-am_vert-dd6b4d86d2b8db6acd87fc0323afeee7ca4d3c25.png 383w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erika Young \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chio, on the other hand, can’t remember ever having an active shooter drill when she was in middle or high school. The only emergency drills back then revolved around natural disasters: earthquakes or hurricanes. But she’s all too familiar with lockdowns these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The student journalists asked her to show them the emergency kit in her classroom, which among other items, has one surprising ingredient: cat litter. Chio says that if a lockdown lasted for several hours, she could use it, along with other toiletries, to create a DIY bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TikTok as middle-school trend-setter \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, there \u003cem>is\u003c/em> more to middle school than lockdowns. One force that dominates both their virtual and in-person world? TikTok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nowadays, when walking to school, you’ll see girls literally surrounding the building who are dancing,” Norah says in the podcast. “The dances look kind of weird because they’ve likely come from TikTok.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erika adds, “You can’t hear the music. And so you just see kids, like, moving their arms over their heads and like just dancing around. 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She and her students bonded over that losing battle to be “cool” in middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like I’m going to be uncool no matter what,” Norah laughs, “so maybe I should just stick with what I’m doing right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But luckily, the friends have each other to make it through. And what they are doing right now, making a podcast and amplifying their classmates’ voices, is still pretty cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To listen to Erika and Norah’s podcast, click \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/nwey/middle-schools-now\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Visual design and development by: LA Johnson\u003cbr>\nAudio story produced by: Janet Woojeong Lee & Lauren Migaki\u003cbr>\nAudio and digital story edited by: Steve Drummond\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Student+podcasters+share+the+dark+realities+of+middle+school+in+America&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/61868/student-podcasters-share-the-dark-realities-of-middle-school-in-america","authors":["byline_mindshift_61868"],"categories":["mindshift_20579","mindshift_195","mindshift_21604"],"tags":["mindshift_21473","mindshift_21682","mindshift_21681","mindshift_145","mindshift_74","mindshift_21467","mindshift_20624","mindshift_21531","mindshift_21680"],"featImg":"mindshift_61869","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_61856":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_61856","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"61856","score":null,"sort":[1687272556000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-tennessee-3-created-a-historic-teachable-moment-will-schools-be-allowed-to-teach-it","title":"The ‘Tennessee 3’ created a historic teachable moment. Will schools be allowed to teach it?","publishDate":1687272556,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The ‘Tennessee 3’ created a historic teachable moment. Will schools be allowed to teach it? | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was \u003ca href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/6/16/23763698/tennessee-three-schools-justin-pearson-jones-crt-law-legislature\" rel=\"canonical\">originally published\u003c/a> by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://ckbe.at/newsletters\">\u003cu>ckbe.at/newsletters\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Wyatt Bassow and Ava Buxton missed classes one morning this spring to see democracy in action in Tennessee, they witnessed history that they acknowledged probably wouldn’t be fully taught at their high school less than a mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin Pearson, one of two young Democratic lawmakers who were dramatically \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/4/6/23672653/tennessee-legislature-gun-protest-expulsion-vote-pearson-jones-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expelled from office\u003c/a> just a week earlier by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, was taking his oath of office again that day outside the state Capitol in Nashville after being voted back in by officials in Shelby County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days earlier, Rep. Justin Jones of Nashville had been reinstated after a similar vote by his city’s council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both men had been ousted from the legislature for staging a protest on the House floor urging gun reforms after a mass school shooting in Nashville. The votes temporarily robbed some 140,000 Tennesseans in the state’s two largest cities of their representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’ve learned these last few weeks is that democracy is incredibly fragile,” said Bassow, a senior at Nashville’s Hume-Fogg High School, as he cheered Pearson’s reinstatement in the shadow of the Capitol building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But because of the power of the people,” he added, “we were able to fix this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less certain, the students said, is whether the controversial ouster of the two young Black Democrats by the House’s all-white GOP supermajority would be fully discussed at their school, or any public Tennessee school, as part of a course in U.S. government, civics, history, contemporary issues, or social studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Republican leaders maintain the ouster was not racially motivated, the racial optics were undeniable, as was the supermajority’s suppression of legislative voices with whom they disagreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Tennessee is at the front of a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://projects.chalkbeat.org/2022/age-appropriate-books-critical-race-theory-tennessee-curriculum/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conservative-driven wave of censorship\u003c/a> about what can and cannot be taught in K-12 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2021/5/24/22452478/tennessee-governor-signs-bill-restricting-how-race-and-bias-can-be-taught-in-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 state law\u003c/a> restricts classroom discussions about systemic racism, white privilege, and the ongoing legacy of slavery. Republican Gov. Bill Lee, who signed the law, has \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2022/2/7/22922717/hillsdale-college-tennessee-governor-charter-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">championed civics education that emphasizes American exceptionalism\u003c/a> and plays down the origins of present-day U.S. injustices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School libraries are under scrutiny too, especially for materials that have to do with race and gender. A \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2022/4/28/23047535/book-ban-tennessee-textbook-commission-legislation-age-appropriate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 law\u003c/a> gives the state unprecedented authority to overrule local school boards and remove certain materials from libraries statewide. And a 2023 law puts book distributors and publishers at risk of criminal prosecution if materials they provide to Tennessee schools are deemed obscene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely have noticed that a silencing is happening in our schools,” said Buxton, also a senior at Hume-Fogg, when asked whether the expulsions of Jones and Pearson had been discussed in her classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thankfully, our teachers are wonderful and intelligent educators who do their best to give students the space we need to have important conversations,” she continued. “But I think these conversations would go much deeper if our teachers didn’t have the fear of these new laws hanging over them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"MjTSFl\">The rise, fall, and rise of the Tennessee Three\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The expulsions of the two Black lawmakers came during the dramatic last weeks of a tumultuous legislative session gripped by large citizen protests over \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/3/28/23661164/nashville-school-shooting-tennessee-covenant-gun-policy-protest-legislature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee’s lax gun laws\u003c/a>, after an armed intruder \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/3/27/23658910/the-covenant-school-school-shootings-assault-weapons-metropolitan-nashville-police-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed three children and three adults at The Covenant School\u003c/a> in Nashville on March 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustrated that House Speaker Cameron Sexton was not allowing them to voice the concerns of demonstrators during debates, Pearson, Jones, and Rep. Gloria Johnson of Knoxville took their protest to the House floor, where Jones and Pearson alternately used a bullhorn to shout “Gun control now!” and “Power to the people!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the process, the trio broke the chamber’s rules of decorum. GOP-sponsored ouster resolutions accused the so-called Tennessee Three of “knowingly and intentionally bringing disorder and dishonor to the House of Representatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Republican representatives voted overwhelmingly to kick out the two young Black men, while Johnson, who is older and white and was less vocal during the protest, kept her seat by a single vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the House had expelled multiple members was in 1866, when six representatives were thrown out for conspiring to deprive the chamber of a quorum during a special session to ratify the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Two others have been expelled in more recent times, one for soliciting a bribe, and the other for sexual misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, the ousters of Jones and Pearson over their peaceful protest of gun violence — \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2023/leading-cause-death-young-people-us-firearms/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now the No. 1 killer of children and teens in America\u003c/a> — seemed heavy-handed to their supporters. The House could have chosen simply to censure them for breaking House rules of decorum instead of kicking them out altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a subsequent four-page rebuke, the nation’s professional organization for social studies teachers denounced Tennessee’s House as attacking foundational principles of democratic and republican norms. Intentionally or not, the state was sending Tennessee students a message that the rights to free speech, peaceful protest, and holding their elected officials accountable are “reserved for those who have a specific view or perspective,” the National Council for the Social Studies wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just as disturbing,” the group continued, “this action sends a message to the larger community that civil discourse and active citizenship will result in punishment rather than in finding consensus in ways that uphold the principles of democracy and the functioning of our republic … (which) will have a long-term impact on our students’ faith in the democratic process and our constitutional principles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"WBWFyU\">Tennessee’s living history drama was filled with teachable moments\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Political science and social studies experts say it’s hard to narrow down the events in Tennessee this spring to one teachable moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of citizens descending on the Capitol to protest gun violence after a school shooting and the subsequent expulsions and reinstatements of Jones and Pearson are rich runways for academic inquiry. Among the issues: freedom of speech, legislative rules of decorum, the enduring influence of racism on public policy, and — as Bassow, the Nashville student, articulated — the fragility of democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1680px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61858\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1680\" height=\"1120\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest.jpg 1680w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1680px) 100vw, 1680px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students protest outside the Tennessee State Capitol on April 3, 2023, during a demonstration against gun violence and the state’s lax gun laws after a deadly school shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville. \u003ccite>(Marta W. Aldrich / Chalkbeat)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John Geer, a political science professor who helped to launch the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy, heartily agrees with Bassow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The teachable moment is that democracy fundamentally rests on genuine competition among political parties,” said Geer. “But because of supermajorities in our state legislatures, the minority party has no real influence and is left to scream or complain. They’re not part of the governing process. There’s no give and take, no compromise. Meanwhile, the majority party has so much power that they don’t need to negotiate, and that leads to excesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t take long for resources to become available to help teachers broach the controversies in Tennessee as well as in Montana, where that state’s House speaker silenced \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/montana-trans-lawmaker-silenced-zooey-zephyr-d398d442537a595bf96d90be90862772\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr,\u003c/a> a transgender lawmaker who refused to apologize for telling colleagues they would have “blood” on their hands if they supported a ban on gender-affirming care for youths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/2/10/23593288/memphis-shelby-county-schools-tyre-nichols-police-brutality-facing-history-ourselves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facing History and Ourselves,\u003c/a> a nonprofit group that creates resources about current events to spawn thoughtful classroom discussions, zeroed in on two issues in its \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/decorum-sanctioning-representatives-jones-pearson-zephyr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lessons\u003c/a>: how to discuss politics in non-polarizing ways and the implications of using rules of decorum to censure legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What norms should guide our conversations about political issues?” asks the group’s lessons designed for middle and high school students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How could rules around speech be used to silence people?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The availability of resources doesn’t mean such questions are being regularly asked in Tennessee classrooms, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s public school teachers don’t have much wiggle room on what they’re allowed to teach. They’re also under \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2022/9/1/23331530/school-library-law-stresses-teachers-classroom-books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increased scrutiny over the resources they can use.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers are guided by hundreds of \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.tn.gov/education/districts/academic-standards.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state-approved academic standards\u003c/a> that set learning goals by subject and grade, and that dictate decisions around curriculum and testing. And social studies teachers already are hard-pressed to cover \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/education/standards/ss/Social_Studies_Standards.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all of the standards for their subjects\u003c/a> during a single school year. Even if they do, only a few courses offered in grades five, eight, and 12 include standards that might lend themselves to discussions about the Tennessee Three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tennessee civics is really nowhere in the standards,” said Bill Carey, who sells resources for educators through his nonprofit \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee History for Kids\u003c/a>. “And if something isn’t in the standards, it’s probably not going to be taught.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social studies lessons, in particular, are monitored closely by parents and activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, some complained that some Tennessee teachers were “indoctrinating” students into Islam in their seventh-grade world history classes, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2016/1/22/21101546/tennessee-launches-review-of-social-studies-standards-amid-concerns-over-world-religion-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prompting state officials to order an early review of those standards.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, amid a conservative backlash to anti-racism protests after a white policeman killed Black American George Floyd in Minneapolis (an incident that prompted a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/george-floyd-minneapolis-police-investigation-19d384c2d90b186b627f9d8cf1d5be2e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal investigation into systemic racism on the police force\u003c/a>), Tennessee was among the first states to \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/22525983/map-critical-race-theory-legislation-teaching-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enact a law\u003c/a> intended to restrict K-12 classroom discussions about race, racism, and gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, the 2021 law prohibits teachers from discussing \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20697058/tn-hb0580-amendment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">14 concepts\u003c/a> that the state has deemed divisive, including that the United States is fundamentally or irredeemably sexist or racist, or that an individual is inherently privileged, racist, sexist, or oppressive because of their race or gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators have complained that the law and the state’s \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2021/11/19/22792435/crt-tennessee-rules-prohibited-racial-concepts-schwinn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rules for enforcing the statute\u003c/a> aren’t clear about exactly what teachings cross the line. But teachers found in violation could have their licenses suspended or revoked, while their school districts could face financial penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential fallout has \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2021/12/17/22840317/crt-laws-classroom-discussion-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">influenced small but pivotal decisions that educators make every day\u003c/a> in Tennessee and in other states that have passed similar laws targeting so-called critical race theory: how to answer a student’s question, which articles to read as a class, how to prepare for a lesson, which examples to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes whether to discuss the Tennessee legislature’s vote to expel Jones and Pearson, which made \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/us/tennessee-house-democrats-expelled.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national headlines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be honest, I just didn’t mention this in class,” said one Tennessee social studies teacher who asked not to be identified, for fear of retribution. “I am just overly cautious with what I cover in class for now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"xNloLY\">Students ‘come up with all these great questions’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mark Finchum, executive director of the Tennessee Council for the Social Studies, says the law — and a related climate of fear — has had a chilling effect on teachers who might normally contemplate lessons about the Tennessee Three, or perhaps about the insurrection at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. But it also depends on the teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re a new teacher who is teaching in an area of the state where you feel insecure, you may not want to go there,” Finchum said. “But if you’re an experienced teacher and feel strongly about these events and how your students can learn from them, you may go ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erika Sugarmon falls in the latter category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Friday at White Station High School in Memphis, students showed up to Sugarmon’s weekly current events discussion with lots of questions about the expulsion. The day before the legislative vote, many White Station students had walked out of school to show support for gun reforms called for by the Tennessee Three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids come up with all these great questions. Sometimes there’s not an answer,” said Sugarmon, a veteran educator who teaches courses in U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s important to give students a safe and constructive space to discuss hard things, added Sugarmon, who is also an elected official on the Shelby County Commission, where she cast a vote to reinstate Pearson to his seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One student in her class brought up racism, she said, prompting a conversation about why Tennessee lawmakers have sought to ban some books and squelch classroom discussions about racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students have been very vocal about not just what happened with Pearson, but with state laws in general,” said Sugarmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She encourages them to explore source documents to formulate their own options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidence-based discussions are the way that teachers should take up politically charged topics with their students, Vanderbilt’s Geer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The evidence should be your guidepost,” he said, “while avoiding injecting ideology into the classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, facts need to be interpreted,” Geer added. “But if we can agree on a basic set of evidence, we can have a conversation. And that’s an important part of democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya Logan, a rising senior in Memphis at Germantown High School, talked about the lawmakers’ expulsions with her friends, but didn’t discuss the event as part of her 11th-grade American history class. Just the same, the deadly shooting at Nashville’s Covenant School, which prompted the protest and led to the expulsions, was a big deal to her. And as a young Black person, she related to Pearson and Jones, who are among the youngest members of the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logan hopes this year’s events at the state Capitol will resurface as discussion topics during her senior year when she takes a U.S. government class. She has important questions. And she’s looking for answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are people,” she explained, “that are setting things up for us for our futures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Marta Aldrich is a senior correspondent and covers the statehouse for Chalkbeat Tennessee. Contact her at \u003c/i>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"mailto:maldrich@chalkbeat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>maldrich@chalkbeat.org\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Laura Testino is a reporter for Chalkbeat Tennessee, where she covers K-12 education in Memphis. Contact her at \u003c/i>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"mailto:ltestino@chalkbeat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>ltestino@chalkbeat.org\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Tennessee was a hotbed for real world civics lessons this spring. It’s also at the front of a conservative-driven wave of censorship about what can and cannot be taught in K-12 schools.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1687272754,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":62,"wordCount":2466},"headData":{"title":"The ‘Tennessee 3’ created a historic teachable moment. Will schools be allowed to teach it? | KQED","description":"Tennessee students were among those who showed up to witness civics lessons in action this spring. Their teachers might not be able to discuss it, though.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"Tennessee students were among those who showed up to witness civics lessons in action this spring. Their teachers might not be able to discuss it, though.","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"The ‘Tennessee 3’ created a historic teachable moment. Will schools be allowed to teach it?","datePublished":"2023-06-20T14:49:16.000Z","dateModified":"2023-06-20T14:52:34.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"nprByline":"Marta W. Aldrich, Laura Testino, Chalkbeat Tennessee","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/61856/the-tennessee-3-created-a-historic-teachable-moment-will-schools-be-allowed-to-teach-it","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was \u003ca href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/6/16/23763698/tennessee-three-schools-justin-pearson-jones-crt-law-legislature\" rel=\"canonical\">originally published\u003c/a> by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://ckbe.at/newsletters\">\u003cu>ckbe.at/newsletters\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Wyatt Bassow and Ava Buxton missed classes one morning this spring to see democracy in action in Tennessee, they witnessed history that they acknowledged probably wouldn’t be fully taught at their high school less than a mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin Pearson, one of two young Democratic lawmakers who were dramatically \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/4/6/23672653/tennessee-legislature-gun-protest-expulsion-vote-pearson-jones-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expelled from office\u003c/a> just a week earlier by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, was taking his oath of office again that day outside the state Capitol in Nashville after being voted back in by officials in Shelby County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days earlier, Rep. Justin Jones of Nashville had been reinstated after a similar vote by his city’s council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both men had been ousted from the legislature for staging a protest on the House floor urging gun reforms after a mass school shooting in Nashville. The votes temporarily robbed some 140,000 Tennesseans in the state’s two largest cities of their representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’ve learned these last few weeks is that democracy is incredibly fragile,” said Bassow, a senior at Nashville’s Hume-Fogg High School, as he cheered Pearson’s reinstatement in the shadow of the Capitol building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But because of the power of the people,” he added, “we were able to fix this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less certain, the students said, is whether the controversial ouster of the two young Black Democrats by the House’s all-white GOP supermajority would be fully discussed at their school, or any public Tennessee school, as part of a course in U.S. government, civics, history, contemporary issues, or social studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Republican leaders maintain the ouster was not racially motivated, the racial optics were undeniable, as was the supermajority’s suppression of legislative voices with whom they disagreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Tennessee is at the front of a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://projects.chalkbeat.org/2022/age-appropriate-books-critical-race-theory-tennessee-curriculum/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conservative-driven wave of censorship\u003c/a> about what can and cannot be taught in K-12 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2021/5/24/22452478/tennessee-governor-signs-bill-restricting-how-race-and-bias-can-be-taught-in-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 state law\u003c/a> restricts classroom discussions about systemic racism, white privilege, and the ongoing legacy of slavery. Republican Gov. Bill Lee, who signed the law, has \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2022/2/7/22922717/hillsdale-college-tennessee-governor-charter-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">championed civics education that emphasizes American exceptionalism\u003c/a> and plays down the origins of present-day U.S. injustices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School libraries are under scrutiny too, especially for materials that have to do with race and gender. A \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2022/4/28/23047535/book-ban-tennessee-textbook-commission-legislation-age-appropriate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 law\u003c/a> gives the state unprecedented authority to overrule local school boards and remove certain materials from libraries statewide. And a 2023 law puts book distributors and publishers at risk of criminal prosecution if materials they provide to Tennessee schools are deemed obscene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely have noticed that a silencing is happening in our schools,” said Buxton, also a senior at Hume-Fogg, when asked whether the expulsions of Jones and Pearson had been discussed in her classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thankfully, our teachers are wonderful and intelligent educators who do their best to give students the space we need to have important conversations,” she continued. “But I think these conversations would go much deeper if our teachers didn’t have the fear of these new laws hanging over them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"MjTSFl\">The rise, fall, and rise of the Tennessee Three\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The expulsions of the two Black lawmakers came during the dramatic last weeks of a tumultuous legislative session gripped by large citizen protests over \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/3/28/23661164/nashville-school-shooting-tennessee-covenant-gun-policy-protest-legislature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee’s lax gun laws\u003c/a>, after an armed intruder \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/3/27/23658910/the-covenant-school-school-shootings-assault-weapons-metropolitan-nashville-police-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed three children and three adults at The Covenant School\u003c/a> in Nashville on March 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustrated that House Speaker Cameron Sexton was not allowing them to voice the concerns of demonstrators during debates, Pearson, Jones, and Rep. Gloria Johnson of Knoxville took their protest to the House floor, where Jones and Pearson alternately used a bullhorn to shout “Gun control now!” and “Power to the people!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the process, the trio broke the chamber’s rules of decorum. GOP-sponsored ouster resolutions accused the so-called Tennessee Three of “knowingly and intentionally bringing disorder and dishonor to the House of Representatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Republican representatives voted overwhelmingly to kick out the two young Black men, while Johnson, who is older and white and was less vocal during the protest, kept her seat by a single vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the House had expelled multiple members was in 1866, when six representatives were thrown out for conspiring to deprive the chamber of a quorum during a special session to ratify the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Two others have been expelled in more recent times, one for soliciting a bribe, and the other for sexual misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, the ousters of Jones and Pearson over their peaceful protest of gun violence — \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2023/leading-cause-death-young-people-us-firearms/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now the No. 1 killer of children and teens in America\u003c/a> — seemed heavy-handed to their supporters. The House could have chosen simply to censure them for breaking House rules of decorum instead of kicking them out altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a subsequent four-page rebuke, the nation’s professional organization for social studies teachers denounced Tennessee’s House as attacking foundational principles of democratic and republican norms. Intentionally or not, the state was sending Tennessee students a message that the rights to free speech, peaceful protest, and holding their elected officials accountable are “reserved for those who have a specific view or perspective,” the National Council for the Social Studies wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just as disturbing,” the group continued, “this action sends a message to the larger community that civil discourse and active citizenship will result in punishment rather than in finding consensus in ways that uphold the principles of democracy and the functioning of our republic … (which) will have a long-term impact on our students’ faith in the democratic process and our constitutional principles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"WBWFyU\">Tennessee’s living history drama was filled with teachable moments\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Political science and social studies experts say it’s hard to narrow down the events in Tennessee this spring to one teachable moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of citizens descending on the Capitol to protest gun violence after a school shooting and the subsequent expulsions and reinstatements of Jones and Pearson are rich runways for academic inquiry. Among the issues: freedom of speech, legislative rules of decorum, the enduring influence of racism on public policy, and — as Bassow, the Nashville student, articulated — the fragility of democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1680px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61858\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1680\" height=\"1120\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest.jpg 1680w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1680px) 100vw, 1680px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students protest outside the Tennessee State Capitol on April 3, 2023, during a demonstration against gun violence and the state’s lax gun laws after a deadly school shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville. \u003ccite>(Marta W. Aldrich / Chalkbeat)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John Geer, a political science professor who helped to launch the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy, heartily agrees with Bassow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The teachable moment is that democracy fundamentally rests on genuine competition among political parties,” said Geer. “But because of supermajorities in our state legislatures, the minority party has no real influence and is left to scream or complain. They’re not part of the governing process. There’s no give and take, no compromise. Meanwhile, the majority party has so much power that they don’t need to negotiate, and that leads to excesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t take long for resources to become available to help teachers broach the controversies in Tennessee as well as in Montana, where that state’s House speaker silenced \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/montana-trans-lawmaker-silenced-zooey-zephyr-d398d442537a595bf96d90be90862772\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr,\u003c/a> a transgender lawmaker who refused to apologize for telling colleagues they would have “blood” on their hands if they supported a ban on gender-affirming care for youths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/2/10/23593288/memphis-shelby-county-schools-tyre-nichols-police-brutality-facing-history-ourselves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facing History and Ourselves,\u003c/a> a nonprofit group that creates resources about current events to spawn thoughtful classroom discussions, zeroed in on two issues in its \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/decorum-sanctioning-representatives-jones-pearson-zephyr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lessons\u003c/a>: how to discuss politics in non-polarizing ways and the implications of using rules of decorum to censure legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What norms should guide our conversations about political issues?” asks the group’s lessons designed for middle and high school students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How could rules around speech be used to silence people?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The availability of resources doesn’t mean such questions are being regularly asked in Tennessee classrooms, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s public school teachers don’t have much wiggle room on what they’re allowed to teach. They’re also under \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2022/9/1/23331530/school-library-law-stresses-teachers-classroom-books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increased scrutiny over the resources they can use.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers are guided by hundreds of \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.tn.gov/education/districts/academic-standards.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state-approved academic standards\u003c/a> that set learning goals by subject and grade, and that dictate decisions around curriculum and testing. And social studies teachers already are hard-pressed to cover \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/education/standards/ss/Social_Studies_Standards.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all of the standards for their subjects\u003c/a> during a single school year. Even if they do, only a few courses offered in grades five, eight, and 12 include standards that might lend themselves to discussions about the Tennessee Three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tennessee civics is really nowhere in the standards,” said Bill Carey, who sells resources for educators through his nonprofit \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee History for Kids\u003c/a>. “And if something isn’t in the standards, it’s probably not going to be taught.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social studies lessons, in particular, are monitored closely by parents and activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, some complained that some Tennessee teachers were “indoctrinating” students into Islam in their seventh-grade world history classes, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2016/1/22/21101546/tennessee-launches-review-of-social-studies-standards-amid-concerns-over-world-religion-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prompting state officials to order an early review of those standards.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, amid a conservative backlash to anti-racism protests after a white policeman killed Black American George Floyd in Minneapolis (an incident that prompted a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/george-floyd-minneapolis-police-investigation-19d384c2d90b186b627f9d8cf1d5be2e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal investigation into systemic racism on the police force\u003c/a>), Tennessee was among the first states to \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/22525983/map-critical-race-theory-legislation-teaching-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enact a law\u003c/a> intended to restrict K-12 classroom discussions about race, racism, and gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, the 2021 law prohibits teachers from discussing \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20697058/tn-hb0580-amendment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">14 concepts\u003c/a> that the state has deemed divisive, including that the United States is fundamentally or irredeemably sexist or racist, or that an individual is inherently privileged, racist, sexist, or oppressive because of their race or gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators have complained that the law and the state’s \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2021/11/19/22792435/crt-tennessee-rules-prohibited-racial-concepts-schwinn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rules for enforcing the statute\u003c/a> aren’t clear about exactly what teachings cross the line. But teachers found in violation could have their licenses suspended or revoked, while their school districts could face financial penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential fallout has \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2021/12/17/22840317/crt-laws-classroom-discussion-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">influenced small but pivotal decisions that educators make every day\u003c/a> in Tennessee and in other states that have passed similar laws targeting so-called critical race theory: how to answer a student’s question, which articles to read as a class, how to prepare for a lesson, which examples to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes whether to discuss the Tennessee legislature’s vote to expel Jones and Pearson, which made \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/us/tennessee-house-democrats-expelled.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national headlines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be honest, I just didn’t mention this in class,” said one Tennessee social studies teacher who asked not to be identified, for fear of retribution. “I am just overly cautious with what I cover in class for now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"xNloLY\">Students ‘come up with all these great questions’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mark Finchum, executive director of the Tennessee Council for the Social Studies, says the law — and a related climate of fear — has had a chilling effect on teachers who might normally contemplate lessons about the Tennessee Three, or perhaps about the insurrection at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. But it also depends on the teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re a new teacher who is teaching in an area of the state where you feel insecure, you may not want to go there,” Finchum said. “But if you’re an experienced teacher and feel strongly about these events and how your students can learn from them, you may go ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erika Sugarmon falls in the latter category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Friday at White Station High School in Memphis, students showed up to Sugarmon’s weekly current events discussion with lots of questions about the expulsion. The day before the legislative vote, many White Station students had walked out of school to show support for gun reforms called for by the Tennessee Three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids come up with all these great questions. Sometimes there’s not an answer,” said Sugarmon, a veteran educator who teaches courses in U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s important to give students a safe and constructive space to discuss hard things, added Sugarmon, who is also an elected official on the Shelby County Commission, where she cast a vote to reinstate Pearson to his seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One student in her class brought up racism, she said, prompting a conversation about why Tennessee lawmakers have sought to ban some books and squelch classroom discussions about racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students have been very vocal about not just what happened with Pearson, but with state laws in general,” said Sugarmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She encourages them to explore source documents to formulate their own options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidence-based discussions are the way that teachers should take up politically charged topics with their students, Vanderbilt’s Geer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The evidence should be your guidepost,” he said, “while avoiding injecting ideology into the classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, facts need to be interpreted,” Geer added. “But if we can agree on a basic set of evidence, we can have a conversation. And that’s an important part of democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya Logan, a rising senior in Memphis at Germantown High School, talked about the lawmakers’ expulsions with her friends, but didn’t discuss the event as part of her 11th-grade American history class. Just the same, the deadly shooting at Nashville’s Covenant School, which prompted the protest and led to the expulsions, was a big deal to her. And as a young Black person, she related to Pearson and Jones, who are among the youngest members of the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logan hopes this year’s events at the state Capitol will resurface as discussion topics during her senior year when she takes a U.S. government class. She has important questions. And she’s looking for answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are people,” she explained, “that are setting things up for us for our futures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Marta Aldrich is a senior correspondent and covers the statehouse for Chalkbeat Tennessee. Contact her at \u003c/i>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"mailto:maldrich@chalkbeat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>maldrich@chalkbeat.org\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Laura Testino is a reporter for Chalkbeat Tennessee, where she covers K-12 education in Memphis. Contact her at \u003c/i>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"mailto:ltestino@chalkbeat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>ltestino@chalkbeat.org\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/61856/the-tennessee-3-created-a-historic-teachable-moment-will-schools-be-allowed-to-teach-it","authors":["byline_mindshift_61856"],"categories":["mindshift_194","mindshift_21604"],"tags":["mindshift_20533","mindshift_21585","mindshift_21466","mindshift_1013","mindshift_21677","mindshift_20615","mindshift_20624","mindshift_21586","mindshift_21676"],"featImg":"mindshift_61857","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_61671":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_61671","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"61671","score":null,"sort":[1684636798000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"teens-say-social-media-is-stressing-them-out-heres-how-to-help-them","title":"Teens say social media is stressing them out. Here's how to help them","publishDate":1684636798,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Teens say social media is stressing them out. Here’s how to help them | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>“What advice would you give to young people who are new to social media?” \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Have you ever felt like you need to change your social media use…?”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teens and young adults from across the country answered these questions in a text survey in 2020. Their answers are eye-opening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>I would tell young people … the internet is far off from reality and the more time you spend on it, the more you forget what real life is actually like…,” \u003c/em>one person wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Don’t let social media control your life or your self-esteem,” \u003c/em>another texted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study, \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35691849/\">published\u003c/a> in September, reveals a striking awareness about the potential harms social media can have on teenagers’ mental health, but also their persistent attempts to counter these harms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some respondents explicitly said social media made them feel depressed. Many asked their parents to help them stop using it. Nearly two-thirds of respondents gave some version of this advice to future teens: Don’t use social media. It’s OK to abstain. Or delete your accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“I have repeatedly deleted Instagram in an effort to improve my emotional state but then, I reinstall. Many times,” \u003c/em>a respondent wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 95% of U.S. teens today use some type of social media, and about a third say they use it “almost constantly,” the Pew Research Center \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/08/10/teens-social-media-and-technology-2022/\">found in August\u003c/a>. At the same time, teens and tweens are facing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/01/1160478454/the-kids-arent-alright-the-post-pandemic-teen-mental-health-crisis\">mental health crisis\u003c/a>. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/25/1171773181/social-media-teens-mental-health\">research indicates\u003c/a> that these two trends are intertwined: that social media can cause depression and lower life satisfaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While clinicians and psychologists try to come up with remedies to this crisis, some of them are realizing something paradoxical: Teens and young adults may be the best source of advice and solutions. \u003cem>They \u003c/em>are the experts of these apps — not their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they’ve been affected by social media more than any other generation, says Emma Lembke, who’s 20 and founded the \u003ca href=\"https://www.logoffmovement.org/\">Log Off Movement\u003c/a> to help teens have a healthy relationship with social media. “We, Gen Z, have felt so tangibly the impact of being left alone to big tech’s profit business model,” she explains. “And that relationship is completely asymmetric, and it is just harming young people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By listening to young people, Lembke believes, parents can work with teens to help them minimize the harms of these platforms while maximizing their benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do believe social media has great aspects as well,” says \u003ca href=\"https://rijularora.com/\">Rijul Arora\u003c/a>, age 26, a digital wellness coach and consultant who leads a project called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/lookupindia4youth/\">LookUp India\u003c/a>, aimed at helping teens unhook from social media. “I’ve been given a lot of opportunities because of social media. I can amplify positive content, and I’m connecting with a lot of people worldwide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a young adult struggling to keep up with school because you can’t put down your phone, Arora and Lembke don’t advise trying to cut off from social media altogether. Instead, they say find the sweet spot, “where you take the positive but leave the negative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to give youth more agency over social media apps, Arora says. “So teens are using these apps instead of the apps using teens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And parents, this all applies to you too: Here’s how to support and nudge your teen toward balanced screen use, while changing your own habits.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 1: Learn what you’re up against\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Here’s what teens and young adults say over and over again: Know what you are up against with social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back when Lembke was in sixth grade, she really, really, \u003cem>really \u003c/em>wanted a phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember as each one of my friends got a phone, each one of them was getting pulled away from conversations with me, from even playing on the playground,” Lembke explains. “So my initial response to this phenomenon was ‘OK, there must be something so magical and amazing within these social media apps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she got her own phone, she says, “And I remember for the first few months I was in love with Instagram.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One day, I think I commented, [to] Olive Garden, ‘I love you.’ And they responded, ‘We love you, too.'” Lembke says. “And I was screaming around the house. It felt like the best day ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But within a few months, her time on her phone had increased from one hour to five or six hours each day. And her relationship with her phone shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized that the magic I thought Instagram — and all these social media apps — had was really just an illusion,” she says. “As I began to scroll more, I felt my mental, and physical health really suffer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lembke wishes someone would have told her about this possibility before she began using social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have an anxiety disorder, and I have OCD,” Lembke \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wrCUcfb7mc\">told\u003c/a> Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., in March 2022, during a roundtable hosted by the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://accountabletech.org/\">Accountable Tech\u003c/a>. “I was never warned that entering these online platforms would only amplify the things that I already struggle with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meta’s global head of safety, Antigone Davis, said in a statement emailed to NPR that the company refers to research on social media and feedback from teens and families. The company has launched “more than 30 tools to support families,” she says, including some “that allow teens and parents to navigate social media safely together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative from TikTok noted in an email that the company released a tool in March for users to monitor their screen time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So here’s what Lembke and other young people want you to know about how the apps work:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>1. These apps aren’t necessarily going to improve your life.\u003c/em> They aren’t necessarily going to help your fear of missing out. In fact, some teens say their feelings of FOMO actually worsened after starting social media. And for teenagers who are already struggling with mental health problems, studies \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3919760\">suggest \u003c/a>that social media can exacerbate these issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>2. The goal is to keep you on the phone, even if you don’t want to stay.\u003c/em> Even if you feel like social media is hurting you. The apps are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ted.com/talks/nir_eyal_what_makes_technology_so_habit_forming\">designed to keep you using them\u003c/a> so you can see ads. That’s how social media companies make money, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Zuckerberg_Senate_Transcript_2018/3Oh1EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22What+we+allow+is+for+advertisers+to+tell+us+who+they+want+to+reach,+and+then+we+do+the+placement.+So,+if+an+advertiser+comes+to+us+and+says,+%27All+right,+I+am+a+ski+shop+and+I+want+to+sell+skis+to+women,%27+then+we+might+have+some+sense,+because+people+shared+skiing-related+content,+or+said+they+were+interested+in+that,+they+shared+whether+they%27re+a+woman,+and+then+we+can+show+the+ads+to+the+right+people+without+that+data+ever+changing+hands+and+going+to+the+advertiser.%22&pg=PT46&printsec=frontcover\">explained\u003c/a> to Congress in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media apps tap into an ancient pathway in your brain that makes you crave using them and makes it extremely difficult to stop, says neuroscientist \u003ca href=\"https://en.samaha-lab.com/about/samaha/\">Anne-Noël Samaha\u003c/a> at the University of Montreal. “Social media apps know very well how to exploit human behavior to keep you coming back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many teens say they feel like social media apps control \u003cem>them \u003c/em>instead of vice versa. “I felt this addiction. I felt this pull, as if I had lost agency…,” Lembke said to Sen. Blumenthal. “As a young female, as a young person, that’s incredibly scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here’s the third thing teens say, over and over again about social media overuse: You can break the habit. And it starts with one key step: a digital audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 2: Get your baseline\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Because of the way social media taps into our brain circuitry, most of the time we hardly realize we’re using the apps. It’s habitual or even subconscious. That’s why young people suggest doing a digital audit to help bring this usage into your consciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a project in high school English class, Sofie Keppler tracked the time she spent on each app on her phone each day for a week. The results triggered several big epiphanies for the 16-year-old: “First, that I was using my phone like a lot — I mean \u003cem>a lot\u003c/em> — more than I thought,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, “it made me think like, maybe I should limit myself … so I’m not always on social media, and I’m talking to everyone around me,” she says. “The more I was on the phone, the more I was ignoring people in social settings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, you can do a digital audit easily with an app, such as Apple \u003ca href=\"https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/view-your-screen-time-summary-iph24dcd4fb8/ios\">Screen Time\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://appadvice.com/app/moment-cut-screen-time/771541926\">Moment\u003c/a>, Toggl \u003ca href=\"https://toggl.com/track/\">Track\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescuetime.com/\">Rescue Time\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facts don’t lie … [tracking my usage] really got my eyes to open up,” Lembke says on the Log Off podcast. “When I downloaded Moment and I saw I had like 200 pickups of my phone each day, I was horrified. People don’t understand those statistics … until they really, really see them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then once you understand your baseline, have self-compassion, says Rijul Arora, who has struggled with what he describes as an addiction to social media himself. Don’t feel ashamed or anxious about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In workshops he gives on managing social media use, he tells teens: “Even if you have very high screen time … first acknowledge that you’re doing that, and it’s OK to be that way,” he says. Then when a teen seems ready to change, he adds: “It’s not OK to \u003cem>stay \u003c/em>that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to the next step.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 3: Add “friction” to make yourself pause\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Just as friction on the road slows down your car, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/30/1127249176/yael-eisenstat-why-we-need-more-friction-on-social-media\">friction\u003c/a> on social media slows your usage. Basically, it’s adding apps that throw up small obstacles when using social media. Friction makes you pause for a bit and think before you mindlessly log on, scroll or click.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some “friction” even makes you take breaths, fill out a wellness survey or meditate after some amount of time engaged with social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding friction is surprisingly easy. Again, there are a bunch of apps. Lembke recommends \u003ca href=\"https://habitlab.github.io/\">HabitLab\u003c/a> from Stanford University. The app uses more than 20 interventions to reduce your time on whatever apps you choose. For example, HabitLab runs a clock at the top of the screen showing how much time you’ve spent on the app. It also blocks your news feeds and even stops your scroll after a certain amount of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some apps, it uses an intervention called “Feed Diet,” which hides recommended content. Or it uses the “Mission Goal” intervention, which makes you type in why you’re entering this site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other friction apps include \u003ca href=\"https://apps.shopmoment.com/\">Moment\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://freedom.to/\">Freedom\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.forestapp.cc/\">Forest\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://screentime.stanford.edu/\">Screentime Genie\u003c/a>. Both \u003ca href=\"https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/tools-and-resources-for-parents-and-teens-in-vr-and-on-instagram\">Instagram \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://support.tiktok.com/en/account-and-privacy/account-information/screen-time\">TikTok\u003c/a> also have tools inside the apps to add friction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do these friction apps work? “Oh, I think my screen time decreased by like 80%” while using HabitLab, Lembke says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re tired of apps, Lembke recommends something she created: the five-minute power scroll. While looking at your news feed, stop at each image for five minutes. Say to yourself, “OK, with this image and with this person, why am I following them? Does this image make me happy? Am I benefiting from their content?” And if not, “unfollow them and give yourself grace to do that,” Lembke says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This five-minute power scroll helps you reflect on why you’re using the app and what you want to prioritize during your time online, she says. “It’s how can I maximize its benefits for me, while mitigating its harms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 4: Hack your apps’ default settings\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On many apps, Arora says, the default settings tickle his brain circuitry in a way that amplifies his cravings and habitual overuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Never go by the default settings that tech companies give you,” says Arora. “Kids love this tip! Because they hate to be manipulated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over and over again, teens say that turning off notifications is the first — perhaps the most critical — step here. You can do it for only certain times of day, if you need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But also explore all the setting options, Arora says, including those related to privacy, your feed, comments and likes. “For example, many people don’t realize that you can turn off ‘likes’ on Instagram,” he says. “This helps reduce the competitiveness of the app.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if an app recommends videos or other content, or starts the next video on auto-play, don’t click. Go and find the video you \u003cem>want \u003c/em>to look at, Lembke says. Remember, she says, you’re in charge. Not the app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both \u003ca href=\"https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/giving-young-people-a-safer-more-private-experience\">Instagram\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/new-features-for-teens-and-families-on-tiktok-us\">TikTok \u003c/a>have information for parents on how to set up teens’ accounts in a way that makes them safer but also can help with overuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, TikTok has started setting all users under age 18 to a screen time limit of 60 minutes each day. When they reach that limit, the app prompts them to enter a passcode if they want to keep watching, “requiring them to make an active decision to extend that time,” the company explained in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in Instagram, teens can turn on notifications that urge them to “take a break” after a certain amount of scrolling. The app will also “suggest that they set reminders to take more breaks in the future,” Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, \u003ca href=\"https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/raising-the-standard-for-protecting-teens-and-supporting-parents-online\">noted \u003c/a>in December 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 5: Enrich your 3D life\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This one is huge. And it comes from Alassane Sow, 20, who’s studying environmental microbiology at Michigan State University. He and many other young people notice that they use social media when they’re bored (or stressed and need a distraction).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people have a sort of shame when they see that they have 10 hours of screen time a day, and they don’t like that,” Sow explains. “But they don’t have anything else to do — or they feel like they don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sow saw this in himself. “At some point, I realized that I couldn’t sit down for five minutes in my own space without looking at my phone for some sort of stimulus. That’s when I noticed, like, something was off,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he went out and started to find \u003cem>other \u003c/em>hobbies that don’t use his phone. He even has a special name for this: long-format entertainment. These are activities that take time to complete, such as reading a book, or drawing a picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These activities make sure my brain isn’t only entertained by short videos and stuff like that,” he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I consciously plan to do them — instead of being on my phone, I say to myself, ‘I’m going to read a chapter of this book today or I’m going to go see my friends — that’s my favorite thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Psychologists, psychiatrists and therapists agree wholeheartedly with Sow. Reinvigorating your life offline is critical to healthy social media usage. Then cutting down social media becomes much easier. You don’t have to accept boredom offline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a big believer in passion in your life,” explains therapist Bob Keane at Walden Behavioral Care. “What do you really like to learn? What gets you really excited besides your phone? And that’s, I think, what we really have to encourage kids to develop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not sure where to get started finding a passion? Lembke’s Log Off project has a whole series of projects and challenges to try, from dipping your toe into the 3D world to taking on big, long-term projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 6: Reach out to your parents for help — or if you’re a parent, get involved\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This isn’t ironic or a joke. Teenagers say over and over again that they want their parents to help them regulate their social media use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They don’t want parents to rip the phone away or be controlling or bossy. And they definitely don’t want to feel judged or shamed for their social media use. But they want parents to listen empathetically, offer gentle advice and set up guard rails. Even some rules. They want help learning to manage their device themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order to prevent addiction and manage digital wellbeing, it is important for parents to set boundaries for their children/teenagers,” writes recent high school graduate Keegan Lee in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.logoffmovement.org/post/a-message-from-gen-z-to-parents\">blog post\u003c/a> on Log Off, called “A Message from Gen Z to Parents.” Lee describes how to talk to teens about their usage and gives some ideas for how to set up rules, including “Try to keep tech out of the bedroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Children may not like this suggestion,” she continues, “however, explain to them the purpose of the bedroom is used to rest and recharge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, Lee suggests setting clear consequences and punishments when kids violate tech rules. And “revisit the rules frequently,” she writes. If parents don’t help kids manage their screen use, she explains, no one else will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keane at Walden Behavioral Care says teenagers in his support group told him the same idea. “The kids were pretty clear to us that they need help,” he says. “They need help figuring out ways to be able to manage this because they told us, clearly, ‘We can’t do it by ourselves.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the rules need to apply to the whole family, including the parents themselves. “For example, if you have a family dinner, no one has a device at the table,” Keane suggests. “If a parent is driving your adolescent to a game or a practice … the parent can say, ‘If you’re going to want me to drive you, you’re not on your phone, you’re talking to me.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is simple but critical: Get kids back in the habit of socializing face-to-face. Because unlike online interactions, talking to other humans in person “is the glue of genuine human connection,” says therapist Kameron Mendes, who works with Keane at Walden Behavioral Center. And it’s time to replenish that glue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Adolescence is when kids start to become their own people in the world,” Mendes adds. “They try on finding friends, connecting with other people and connecting with other types of values and ideas. For that process to take hold and flourish, we really need to restore some level of human connection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. 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Their answers are eye-opening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>I would tell young people … the internet is far off from reality and the more time you spend on it, the more you forget what real life is actually like…,” \u003c/em>one person wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Don’t let social media control your life or your self-esteem,” \u003c/em>another texted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study, \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35691849/\">published\u003c/a> in September, reveals a striking awareness about the potential harms social media can have on teenagers’ mental health, but also their persistent attempts to counter these harms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some respondents explicitly said social media made them feel depressed. Many asked their parents to help them stop using it. Nearly two-thirds of respondents gave some version of this advice to future teens: Don’t use social media. It’s OK to abstain. Or delete your accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“I have repeatedly deleted Instagram in an effort to improve my emotional state but then, I reinstall. Many times,” \u003c/em>a respondent wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 95% of U.S. teens today use some type of social media, and about a third say they use it “almost constantly,” the Pew Research Center \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/08/10/teens-social-media-and-technology-2022/\">found in August\u003c/a>. At the same time, teens and tweens are facing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/01/1160478454/the-kids-arent-alright-the-post-pandemic-teen-mental-health-crisis\">mental health crisis\u003c/a>. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/25/1171773181/social-media-teens-mental-health\">research indicates\u003c/a> that these two trends are intertwined: that social media can cause depression and lower life satisfaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While clinicians and psychologists try to come up with remedies to this crisis, some of them are realizing something paradoxical: Teens and young adults may be the best source of advice and solutions. \u003cem>They \u003c/em>are the experts of these apps — not their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they’ve been affected by social media more than any other generation, says Emma Lembke, who’s 20 and founded the \u003ca href=\"https://www.logoffmovement.org/\">Log Off Movement\u003c/a> to help teens have a healthy relationship with social media. “We, Gen Z, have felt so tangibly the impact of being left alone to big tech’s profit business model,” she explains. “And that relationship is completely asymmetric, and it is just harming young people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By listening to young people, Lembke believes, parents can work with teens to help them minimize the harms of these platforms while maximizing their benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do believe social media has great aspects as well,” says \u003ca href=\"https://rijularora.com/\">Rijul Arora\u003c/a>, age 26, a digital wellness coach and consultant who leads a project called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/lookupindia4youth/\">LookUp India\u003c/a>, aimed at helping teens unhook from social media. “I’ve been given a lot of opportunities because of social media. I can amplify positive content, and I’m connecting with a lot of people worldwide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a young adult struggling to keep up with school because you can’t put down your phone, Arora and Lembke don’t advise trying to cut off from social media altogether. Instead, they say find the sweet spot, “where you take the positive but leave the negative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to give youth more agency over social media apps, Arora says. “So teens are using these apps instead of the apps using teens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And parents, this all applies to you too: Here’s how to support and nudge your teen toward balanced screen use, while changing your own habits.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 1: Learn what you’re up against\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Here’s what teens and young adults say over and over again: Know what you are up against with social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back when Lembke was in sixth grade, she really, really, \u003cem>really \u003c/em>wanted a phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember as each one of my friends got a phone, each one of them was getting pulled away from conversations with me, from even playing on the playground,” Lembke explains. “So my initial response to this phenomenon was ‘OK, there must be something so magical and amazing within these social media apps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she got her own phone, she says, “And I remember for the first few months I was in love with Instagram.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One day, I think I commented, [to] Olive Garden, ‘I love you.’ And they responded, ‘We love you, too.'” Lembke says. “And I was screaming around the house. It felt like the best day ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But within a few months, her time on her phone had increased from one hour to five or six hours each day. And her relationship with her phone shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized that the magic I thought Instagram — and all these social media apps — had was really just an illusion,” she says. “As I began to scroll more, I felt my mental, and physical health really suffer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lembke wishes someone would have told her about this possibility before she began using social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have an anxiety disorder, and I have OCD,” Lembke \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wrCUcfb7mc\">told\u003c/a> Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., in March 2022, during a roundtable hosted by the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://accountabletech.org/\">Accountable Tech\u003c/a>. “I was never warned that entering these online platforms would only amplify the things that I already struggle with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meta’s global head of safety, Antigone Davis, said in a statement emailed to NPR that the company refers to research on social media and feedback from teens and families. The company has launched “more than 30 tools to support families,” she says, including some “that allow teens and parents to navigate social media safely together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative from TikTok noted in an email that the company released a tool in March for users to monitor their screen time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So here’s what Lembke and other young people want you to know about how the apps work:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>1. These apps aren’t necessarily going to improve your life.\u003c/em> They aren’t necessarily going to help your fear of missing out. In fact, some teens say their feelings of FOMO actually worsened after starting social media. And for teenagers who are already struggling with mental health problems, studies \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3919760\">suggest \u003c/a>that social media can exacerbate these issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>2. The goal is to keep you on the phone, even if you don’t want to stay.\u003c/em> Even if you feel like social media is hurting you. The apps are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ted.com/talks/nir_eyal_what_makes_technology_so_habit_forming\">designed to keep you using them\u003c/a> so you can see ads. That’s how social media companies make money, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Zuckerberg_Senate_Transcript_2018/3Oh1EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22What+we+allow+is+for+advertisers+to+tell+us+who+they+want+to+reach,+and+then+we+do+the+placement.+So,+if+an+advertiser+comes+to+us+and+says,+%27All+right,+I+am+a+ski+shop+and+I+want+to+sell+skis+to+women,%27+then+we+might+have+some+sense,+because+people+shared+skiing-related+content,+or+said+they+were+interested+in+that,+they+shared+whether+they%27re+a+woman,+and+then+we+can+show+the+ads+to+the+right+people+without+that+data+ever+changing+hands+and+going+to+the+advertiser.%22&pg=PT46&printsec=frontcover\">explained\u003c/a> to Congress in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media apps tap into an ancient pathway in your brain that makes you crave using them and makes it extremely difficult to stop, says neuroscientist \u003ca href=\"https://en.samaha-lab.com/about/samaha/\">Anne-Noël Samaha\u003c/a> at the University of Montreal. “Social media apps know very well how to exploit human behavior to keep you coming back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many teens say they feel like social media apps control \u003cem>them \u003c/em>instead of vice versa. “I felt this addiction. I felt this pull, as if I had lost agency…,” Lembke said to Sen. Blumenthal. “As a young female, as a young person, that’s incredibly scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here’s the third thing teens say, over and over again about social media overuse: You can break the habit. And it starts with one key step: a digital audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 2: Get your baseline\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Because of the way social media taps into our brain circuitry, most of the time we hardly realize we’re using the apps. It’s habitual or even subconscious. That’s why young people suggest doing a digital audit to help bring this usage into your consciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a project in high school English class, Sofie Keppler tracked the time she spent on each app on her phone each day for a week. The results triggered several big epiphanies for the 16-year-old: “First, that I was using my phone like a lot — I mean \u003cem>a lot\u003c/em> — more than I thought,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, “it made me think like, maybe I should limit myself … so I’m not always on social media, and I’m talking to everyone around me,” she says. “The more I was on the phone, the more I was ignoring people in social settings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, you can do a digital audit easily with an app, such as Apple \u003ca href=\"https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/view-your-screen-time-summary-iph24dcd4fb8/ios\">Screen Time\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://appadvice.com/app/moment-cut-screen-time/771541926\">Moment\u003c/a>, Toggl \u003ca href=\"https://toggl.com/track/\">Track\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescuetime.com/\">Rescue Time\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facts don’t lie … [tracking my usage] really got my eyes to open up,” Lembke says on the Log Off podcast. “When I downloaded Moment and I saw I had like 200 pickups of my phone each day, I was horrified. People don’t understand those statistics … until they really, really see them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then once you understand your baseline, have self-compassion, says Rijul Arora, who has struggled with what he describes as an addiction to social media himself. Don’t feel ashamed or anxious about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In workshops he gives on managing social media use, he tells teens: “Even if you have very high screen time … first acknowledge that you’re doing that, and it’s OK to be that way,” he says. Then when a teen seems ready to change, he adds: “It’s not OK to \u003cem>stay \u003c/em>that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to the next step.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 3: Add “friction” to make yourself pause\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Just as friction on the road slows down your car, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/30/1127249176/yael-eisenstat-why-we-need-more-friction-on-social-media\">friction\u003c/a> on social media slows your usage. Basically, it’s adding apps that throw up small obstacles when using social media. Friction makes you pause for a bit and think before you mindlessly log on, scroll or click.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some “friction” even makes you take breaths, fill out a wellness survey or meditate after some amount of time engaged with social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding friction is surprisingly easy. Again, there are a bunch of apps. Lembke recommends \u003ca href=\"https://habitlab.github.io/\">HabitLab\u003c/a> from Stanford University. The app uses more than 20 interventions to reduce your time on whatever apps you choose. For example, HabitLab runs a clock at the top of the screen showing how much time you’ve spent on the app. It also blocks your news feeds and even stops your scroll after a certain amount of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some apps, it uses an intervention called “Feed Diet,” which hides recommended content. Or it uses the “Mission Goal” intervention, which makes you type in why you’re entering this site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other friction apps include \u003ca href=\"https://apps.shopmoment.com/\">Moment\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://freedom.to/\">Freedom\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.forestapp.cc/\">Forest\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://screentime.stanford.edu/\">Screentime Genie\u003c/a>. Both \u003ca href=\"https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/tools-and-resources-for-parents-and-teens-in-vr-and-on-instagram\">Instagram \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://support.tiktok.com/en/account-and-privacy/account-information/screen-time\">TikTok\u003c/a> also have tools inside the apps to add friction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do these friction apps work? “Oh, I think my screen time decreased by like 80%” while using HabitLab, Lembke says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re tired of apps, Lembke recommends something she created: the five-minute power scroll. While looking at your news feed, stop at each image for five minutes. Say to yourself, “OK, with this image and with this person, why am I following them? Does this image make me happy? Am I benefiting from their content?” And if not, “unfollow them and give yourself grace to do that,” Lembke says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This five-minute power scroll helps you reflect on why you’re using the app and what you want to prioritize during your time online, she says. “It’s how can I maximize its benefits for me, while mitigating its harms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 4: Hack your apps’ default settings\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On many apps, Arora says, the default settings tickle his brain circuitry in a way that amplifies his cravings and habitual overuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Never go by the default settings that tech companies give you,” says Arora. “Kids love this tip! Because they hate to be manipulated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over and over again, teens say that turning off notifications is the first — perhaps the most critical — step here. You can do it for only certain times of day, if you need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But also explore all the setting options, Arora says, including those related to privacy, your feed, comments and likes. “For example, many people don’t realize that you can turn off ‘likes’ on Instagram,” he says. “This helps reduce the competitiveness of the app.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if an app recommends videos or other content, or starts the next video on auto-play, don’t click. Go and find the video you \u003cem>want \u003c/em>to look at, Lembke says. Remember, she says, you’re in charge. Not the app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both \u003ca href=\"https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/giving-young-people-a-safer-more-private-experience\">Instagram\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/new-features-for-teens-and-families-on-tiktok-us\">TikTok \u003c/a>have information for parents on how to set up teens’ accounts in a way that makes them safer but also can help with overuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, TikTok has started setting all users under age 18 to a screen time limit of 60 minutes each day. When they reach that limit, the app prompts them to enter a passcode if they want to keep watching, “requiring them to make an active decision to extend that time,” the company explained in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in Instagram, teens can turn on notifications that urge them to “take a break” after a certain amount of scrolling. The app will also “suggest that they set reminders to take more breaks in the future,” Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, \u003ca href=\"https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/raising-the-standard-for-protecting-teens-and-supporting-parents-online\">noted \u003c/a>in December 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 5: Enrich your 3D life\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This one is huge. And it comes from Alassane Sow, 20, who’s studying environmental microbiology at Michigan State University. He and many other young people notice that they use social media when they’re bored (or stressed and need a distraction).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people have a sort of shame when they see that they have 10 hours of screen time a day, and they don’t like that,” Sow explains. “But they don’t have anything else to do — or they feel like they don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sow saw this in himself. “At some point, I realized that I couldn’t sit down for five minutes in my own space without looking at my phone for some sort of stimulus. That’s when I noticed, like, something was off,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he went out and started to find \u003cem>other \u003c/em>hobbies that don’t use his phone. He even has a special name for this: long-format entertainment. These are activities that take time to complete, such as reading a book, or drawing a picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These activities make sure my brain isn’t only entertained by short videos and stuff like that,” he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I consciously plan to do them — instead of being on my phone, I say to myself, ‘I’m going to read a chapter of this book today or I’m going to go see my friends — that’s my favorite thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Psychologists, psychiatrists and therapists agree wholeheartedly with Sow. Reinvigorating your life offline is critical to healthy social media usage. Then cutting down social media becomes much easier. You don’t have to accept boredom offline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a big believer in passion in your life,” explains therapist Bob Keane at Walden Behavioral Care. “What do you really like to learn? What gets you really excited besides your phone? And that’s, I think, what we really have to encourage kids to develop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not sure where to get started finding a passion? Lembke’s Log Off project has a whole series of projects and challenges to try, from dipping your toe into the 3D world to taking on big, long-term projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 6: Reach out to your parents for help — or if you’re a parent, get involved\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This isn’t ironic or a joke. Teenagers say over and over again that they want their parents to help them regulate their social media use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They don’t want parents to rip the phone away or be controlling or bossy. And they definitely don’t want to feel judged or shamed for their social media use. But they want parents to listen empathetically, offer gentle advice and set up guard rails. Even some rules. They want help learning to manage their device themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order to prevent addiction and manage digital wellbeing, it is important for parents to set boundaries for their children/teenagers,” writes recent high school graduate Keegan Lee in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.logoffmovement.org/post/a-message-from-gen-z-to-parents\">blog post\u003c/a> on Log Off, called “A Message from Gen Z to Parents.” Lee describes how to talk to teens about their usage and gives some ideas for how to set up rules, including “Try to keep tech out of the bedroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Children may not like this suggestion,” she continues, “however, explain to them the purpose of the bedroom is used to rest and recharge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, Lee suggests setting clear consequences and punishments when kids violate tech rules. And “revisit the rules frequently,” she writes. If parents don’t help kids manage their screen use, she explains, no one else will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keane at Walden Behavioral Care says teenagers in his support group told him the same idea. “The kids were pretty clear to us that they need help,” he says. “They need help figuring out ways to be able to manage this because they told us, clearly, ‘We can’t do it by ourselves.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the rules need to apply to the whole family, including the parents themselves. “For example, if you have a family dinner, no one has a device at the table,” Keane suggests. “If a parent is driving your adolescent to a game or a practice … the parent can say, ‘If you’re going to want me to drive you, you’re not on your phone, you’re talking to me.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is simple but critical: Get kids back in the habit of socializing face-to-face. Because unlike online interactions, talking to other humans in person “is the glue of genuine human connection,” says therapist Kameron Mendes, who works with Keane at Walden Behavioral Center. And it’s time to replenish that glue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Adolescence is when kids start to become their own people in the world,” Mendes adds. “They try on finding friends, connecting with other people and connecting with other types of values and ideas. For that process to take hold and flourish, we really need to restore some level of human connection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Teens+say+social+media+is+stressing+them+out.+Here%27s+how+to+help+them&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/61671/teens-say-social-media-is-stressing-them-out-heres-how-to-help-them","authors":["byline_mindshift_61671"],"categories":["mindshift_21445","mindshift_21280","mindshift_21385","mindshift_20874"],"tags":["mindshift_20865","mindshift_30","mindshift_20925","mindshift_20624","mindshift_1038"],"featImg":"mindshift_61672","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_61416":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_61416","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"61416","score":null,"sort":[1681812056000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-student-school-board-members-are-driving-climate-action","title":"How student school board members are driving climate action","publishDate":1681812056,"format":"standard","headTitle":"How student school board members are driving climate action | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This column on student school board members was produced by \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.us2.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=66c306eebb323868c3ce353c1&id=d3ee4c3e04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hechinger newsletter\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Idaho really is the state where we can solve climate change,” Shiva Rajbhandari tells me over bagels and lox at Russ & Daughters Cafe in New York City. “It’s got sun and it’s got wind and these beautiful natural spaces. And it’s a very resilient ecosystem.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rajbhandari, who beat an incumbent to win a seat on Boise’s school board last year, sounds like any other boosterish local elected official — except he’s an 18-year-old high school senior in the same district he governs. And he’s part of a growing number of student school board members across the country, many of whom are putting climate action at the top of their agendas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61438\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-61438 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Shiva-Rajbhandari-160x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Shiva-Rajbhandari-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Shiva-Rajbhandari-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Shiva-Rajbhandari-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Shiva-Rajbhandari-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Shiva-Rajbhandari-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Shiva-Rajbhandari-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Shiva-Rajbhandari-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shiva Rajbhandari, a high school senior, beat an incumbent to win a seat on Boise’s school board last year. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Shiva Rajbhandari)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Currently, Rajbhandari is one of approximately 500 student school board members in 42 states serving almost 20 million students. That’s according to a new organization, the National Student Board Member Association. Its founder, Zachary Patterson, is now an undergrad at Duke University. Back in high school, he first organized his fellow students to petition for a permanent student board seat on San Diego’s school board, and was then elected to the position in 2019, in a wave of student activism that around the same time pushed the district to pass an \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegounified.org/about/newscenter/archived_news/san_diego_unified_passes_first-of-its-_kind_youth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ambitious climate action plan\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a board member he worked to keep focus on the new climate plan, helping the district get funding to convert to electric school buses. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He’s clearly passionate about student power: “We believe that when students are central to educational decision making, outcomes improve.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, Patterson said, student board members around the country are helping each other create comprehensive climate action plans for net-zero buildings and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60851/can-a-middle-school-class-help-scientists-create-a-cooler-place-to-play\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">climate curricula\u003c/a>, and are moving them forward in their school districts. There’s a lot of momentum around these issues: Billions of dollars in funding in the federal Inflation Reduction Act, passed last fall, were specifically designated to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60630/7-steps-schools-can-take-to-benefit-the-climate-and-save-money\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incentivize cutting the energy usage and emissions\u003c/a> of the nation’s 100,000 school buildings, as well as swapping out diesel buses for electric. Student board members are working alongside groups like Schools for Climate Action (which just held a lobby day in Washington that Rajbhandari attended), Generation 180, Undaunted K12 and the Green Schools National Network. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last spring, Portland Public Schools, which has included student representatives on its board for several years, passed a pathbreaking \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pps.net/cms/lib/OR01913224/Centricity/Domain/4814/3.30.080-P.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">climate policy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that was co-written by the student representative. Kat Davis, the Oregon district’s advisor for climate justice, a newly created position, said students have been “so important” to the district’s role as a climate pioneer. She said: “We take student engagement really seriously.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The district’s high school students elect one of their own to a permanent seat. Students also sit on committees, including the Climate Crisis Response Committee. The district’s new climate policy prohibits the installation of gas-fired equipment in all new buildings, and requires all fossil fuel infrastructure be phased out of existing buildings by 2050. The policy also mandates climate education, and requires schools to address climate-related impacts on health, safety and well-being. “\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are all very much aware of the fact that it’s not an option NOT to do something about climate change,” said \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Byronie McMahon, the high school student who currently sits on the board. “\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have a responsibility.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The district’s students, born in the 21st century, haven’t known a world without heat waves and wildfire smoke; their moral clarity and fierce urgency “push us to be better,” Davis said. “Their role is to never be fully satisfied.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The drive for student representation has been growing — \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2023/1/24/23569203/nyc-school-board-panel-for-educational-policy-student-power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chalkbeat reported\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> earlier this year that 14\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> percent of the nation’s largest school districts now have a student serving on their boards in some capacity. But it’s most common for them to be in an “advisory” role, without a vote. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That was true for Solyana Mesfin, another student leader and climate advocate. She was appointed by Gov. Andy Beshear to serve as the first student representative on Kentucky’s State Board of Education from 2020-22. “\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To have a voice at the table is very important — but also a voting voice as well,” she said. “Students are the main consumers of the education system. There’s nobody more impacted.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now a first-year at the University of Louisville, Mesfin is also advocating for electric school bus adoption as co-chair of an advisory council for the\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">World Resources Institute.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Boise, Rajbhandari said his journey to the school board started in seventh grade Earth science, when he was “lucky” to have a teacher who went above and beyond the state standards to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61263/garbology-is-the-study-of-trash-this-is-why-students-love-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teach about climate change\u003c/a>. “I think we talked about the polar bears and the rainforests and the effects of climate change on places like Miami. But it’s kind of weird because we didn’t really talk about how climate change is causing the [wildfire] smog that cancels our cross-country practice every year for two weeks in September or is causing an uptick in asthma in our community or caused people to lose their homes, literally, like a few miles from our school.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After a few years of battling his personal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60498/what-parents-should-know-about-eco-anxiety-and-its-impact-on-todays-teens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">climate anxiety\u003c/a> with individual actions, like buying fewer new clothes, Rajbhandari found and joined the activist groups Sunrise Movement and Extinction Rebellion. And his experience with those groups, in turn, empowered him to seek elected office. Since he joined the school board last fall, it has contracted with a consulting firm to conduct a carbon audit and find “low-hanging fruit,” easy fixes, like improving building insulation and swapping regular lights for LEDs, changes that, Rajbhandari said, will quickly pay for themselves. Next, he said, “We can put solar panels on our schools and make money for the school system through the state’s first power purchase agreement [and ultimately] surpass our city’s climate goals and save millions of dollars in the process.”\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61440\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-61440\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/kamenetz-schoolboard02-160x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/kamenetz-schoolboard02-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/kamenetz-schoolboard02-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/kamenetz-schoolboard02-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/kamenetz-schoolboard02-768x960.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/kamenetz-schoolboard02-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/kamenetz-schoolboard02-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/kamenetz-schoolboard02-1920x2400.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/kamenetz-schoolboard02-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Markus Ceniceros, a high school senior, was recently elected to the governing board of the Littleton Elementary School District, west of Phoenix, Arizona. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Markus Ceniceros)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s a lot easier to think big like this when you’re sitting on the dais as a voting board member, rather than petitioning the board. “\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The difference is you have a vote,” said \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Markus Ceniceros, a high school senior who was recently elected to the governing board of the Littleton Elementary School District, west of Phoenix, Arizona.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Ceniceros is a champion of LGBTQ rights and mental health as well as clean energy and electric school buses. “When you’re just a student, people can tell you, well, maybe.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This column on student school board members was produced by \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.us2.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=66c306eebb323868c3ce353c1&id=d3ee4c3e04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hechinger newsletter\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Students are running for voting positions on school boards and pushing schools to cut energy use, switch to electric buses and add climate change to the curriculum.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1685731266,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":1284},"headData":{"title":"How student school board members are driving climate action | KQED","description":"Students are running for voting positions on school boards and pushing to cut energy use, switch to electric buses and add climate change to the curriculum.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"Students are running for voting positions on school boards and pushing to cut energy use, switch to electric buses and add climate change to the curriculum.","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"How student school board members are driving climate action","datePublished":"2023-04-18T10:00:56.000Z","dateModified":"2023-06-02T18:41:06.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"nprByline":"Anya Kamenetz, \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/61416/how-student-school-board-members-are-driving-climate-action","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This column on student school board members was produced by \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.us2.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=66c306eebb323868c3ce353c1&id=d3ee4c3e04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hechinger newsletter\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Idaho really is the state where we can solve climate change,” Shiva Rajbhandari tells me over bagels and lox at Russ & Daughters Cafe in New York City. “It’s got sun and it’s got wind and these beautiful natural spaces. And it’s a very resilient ecosystem.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rajbhandari, who beat an incumbent to win a seat on Boise’s school board last year, sounds like any other boosterish local elected official — except he’s an 18-year-old high school senior in the same district he governs. And he’s part of a growing number of student school board members across the country, many of whom are putting climate action at the top of their agendas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61438\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-61438 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Shiva-Rajbhandari-160x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Shiva-Rajbhandari-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Shiva-Rajbhandari-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Shiva-Rajbhandari-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Shiva-Rajbhandari-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Shiva-Rajbhandari-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Shiva-Rajbhandari-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Shiva-Rajbhandari-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shiva Rajbhandari, a high school senior, beat an incumbent to win a seat on Boise’s school board last year. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Shiva Rajbhandari)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Currently, Rajbhandari is one of approximately 500 student school board members in 42 states serving almost 20 million students. That’s according to a new organization, the National Student Board Member Association. Its founder, Zachary Patterson, is now an undergrad at Duke University. Back in high school, he first organized his fellow students to petition for a permanent student board seat on San Diego’s school board, and was then elected to the position in 2019, in a wave of student activism that around the same time pushed the district to pass an \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegounified.org/about/newscenter/archived_news/san_diego_unified_passes_first-of-its-_kind_youth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ambitious climate action plan\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a board member he worked to keep focus on the new climate plan, helping the district get funding to convert to electric school buses. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He’s clearly passionate about student power: “We believe that when students are central to educational decision making, outcomes improve.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, Patterson said, student board members around the country are helping each other create comprehensive climate action plans for net-zero buildings and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60851/can-a-middle-school-class-help-scientists-create-a-cooler-place-to-play\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">climate curricula\u003c/a>, and are moving them forward in their school districts. There’s a lot of momentum around these issues: Billions of dollars in funding in the federal Inflation Reduction Act, passed last fall, were specifically designated to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60630/7-steps-schools-can-take-to-benefit-the-climate-and-save-money\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incentivize cutting the energy usage and emissions\u003c/a> of the nation’s 100,000 school buildings, as well as swapping out diesel buses for electric. Student board members are working alongside groups like Schools for Climate Action (which just held a lobby day in Washington that Rajbhandari attended), Generation 180, Undaunted K12 and the Green Schools National Network. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last spring, Portland Public Schools, which has included student representatives on its board for several years, passed a pathbreaking \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pps.net/cms/lib/OR01913224/Centricity/Domain/4814/3.30.080-P.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">climate policy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that was co-written by the student representative. Kat Davis, the Oregon district’s advisor for climate justice, a newly created position, said students have been “so important” to the district’s role as a climate pioneer. She said: “We take student engagement really seriously.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The district’s high school students elect one of their own to a permanent seat. Students also sit on committees, including the Climate Crisis Response Committee. The district’s new climate policy prohibits the installation of gas-fired equipment in all new buildings, and requires all fossil fuel infrastructure be phased out of existing buildings by 2050. The policy also mandates climate education, and requires schools to address climate-related impacts on health, safety and well-being. “\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are all very much aware of the fact that it’s not an option NOT to do something about climate change,” said \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Byronie McMahon, the high school student who currently sits on the board. “\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have a responsibility.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The district’s students, born in the 21st century, haven’t known a world without heat waves and wildfire smoke; their moral clarity and fierce urgency “push us to be better,” Davis said. “Their role is to never be fully satisfied.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The drive for student representation has been growing — \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2023/1/24/23569203/nyc-school-board-panel-for-educational-policy-student-power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chalkbeat reported\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> earlier this year that 14\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> percent of the nation’s largest school districts now have a student serving on their boards in some capacity. But it’s most common for them to be in an “advisory” role, without a vote. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That was true for Solyana Mesfin, another student leader and climate advocate. She was appointed by Gov. Andy Beshear to serve as the first student representative on Kentucky’s State Board of Education from 2020-22. “\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To have a voice at the table is very important — but also a voting voice as well,” she said. “Students are the main consumers of the education system. There’s nobody more impacted.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now a first-year at the University of Louisville, Mesfin is also advocating for electric school bus adoption as co-chair of an advisory council for the\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">World Resources Institute.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Boise, Rajbhandari said his journey to the school board started in seventh grade Earth science, when he was “lucky” to have a teacher who went above and beyond the state standards to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61263/garbology-is-the-study-of-trash-this-is-why-students-love-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teach about climate change\u003c/a>. “I think we talked about the polar bears and the rainforests and the effects of climate change on places like Miami. But it’s kind of weird because we didn’t really talk about how climate change is causing the [wildfire] smog that cancels our cross-country practice every year for two weeks in September or is causing an uptick in asthma in our community or caused people to lose their homes, literally, like a few miles from our school.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After a few years of battling his personal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60498/what-parents-should-know-about-eco-anxiety-and-its-impact-on-todays-teens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">climate anxiety\u003c/a> with individual actions, like buying fewer new clothes, Rajbhandari found and joined the activist groups Sunrise Movement and Extinction Rebellion. And his experience with those groups, in turn, empowered him to seek elected office. Since he joined the school board last fall, it has contracted with a consulting firm to conduct a carbon audit and find “low-hanging fruit,” easy fixes, like improving building insulation and swapping regular lights for LEDs, changes that, Rajbhandari said, will quickly pay for themselves. Next, he said, “We can put solar panels on our schools and make money for the school system through the state’s first power purchase agreement [and ultimately] surpass our city’s climate goals and save millions of dollars in the process.”\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61440\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-61440\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/kamenetz-schoolboard02-160x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/kamenetz-schoolboard02-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/kamenetz-schoolboard02-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/kamenetz-schoolboard02-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/kamenetz-schoolboard02-768x960.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/kamenetz-schoolboard02-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/kamenetz-schoolboard02-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/kamenetz-schoolboard02-1920x2400.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/kamenetz-schoolboard02-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Markus Ceniceros, a high school senior, was recently elected to the governing board of the Littleton Elementary School District, west of Phoenix, Arizona. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Markus Ceniceros)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s a lot easier to think big like this when you’re sitting on the dais as a voting board member, rather than petitioning the board. “\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The difference is you have a vote,” said \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Markus Ceniceros, a high school senior who was recently elected to the governing board of the Littleton Elementary School District, west of Phoenix, Arizona.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Ceniceros is a champion of LGBTQ rights and mental health as well as clean energy and electric school buses. “When you’re just a student, people can tell you, well, maybe.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This column on student school board members was produced by \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.us2.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=66c306eebb323868c3ce353c1&id=d3ee4c3e04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hechinger newsletter\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/61416/how-student-school-board-members-are-driving-climate-action","authors":["byline_mindshift_61416"],"categories":["mindshift_21508"],"tags":["mindshift_21124","mindshift_21592","mindshift_21463","mindshift_21593","mindshift_21278","mindshift_20779","mindshift_20624"],"featImg":"mindshift_61436","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_61388":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_61388","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"61388","score":null,"sort":[1681156844000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"why-nashville-student-activists-arent-going-to-wait-a-generation-for-gun-control","title":"Why Nashville student activists aren't willing to wait a generation for gun control","publishDate":1681156844,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Why Nashville student activists aren’t willing to wait a generation for gun control | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This opinion column about the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/column-nashville-student-activists-not-willing-to-wait-a-generation-for-gun-control/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tennessee expulsion\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/newsletters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sign up\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for Hechinger’s weekly newsletters. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Activism has been part of \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Safiyah Suara’s\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> young life since her politician mother hauled her along to demonstrations in a baby carrier. That’s why she’ll be spending this week protesting guns and the expulsion from the Tennessee House of two Democratic lawmakers by their Republican colleagues. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s hoping more young Tennesseans will join her.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The most important thing is to keep speaking out, and to show the legislature and the rest of the world that we won’t stop fighting,” said Safiyah, an 18-year-old senior at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://humefogg.mnps.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hume-Fogg\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a magnet high school just four a few blocks from the state capitol.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some 7,000 students who walked out of school in Nashville on April 3 did exactly that, after three children and three adults were killed by an assailant armed with semi-automatic weapons at a nearby church-affiliated school. They \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/nashville-children-scream-republicans-gun-control-viral-photo-1792437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">confronted lawmakers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the capitol, then later watched in dismay as a Republican majority ousted Rep. Justin Pearson and Rep. Justin Jones for interrupting debate by leading a gun control protest on March 30 inside the chamber.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Sunday, the day before yet another mass shooting left five dead in Louisville, I spoke via Zoom with Safiyah and two of her Hume-Fogg classmates, along with their English teacher \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/contributors/2023/03/30/covenant-school-shooting-may-our-children-succeed-in-ending-violence/70058947007/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Courtney Shultz.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> They described what they see as an attack on democracy, one that has trained the nation’s eyes on their home state. Despite anguish over gun violence and the legislature’s failure to act on the issue, the high school seniors hope to build a better Tennessee, a state with a history of racism and segregation that only recently \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/07/23/tennessees-nathan-bedford-forrest-bust-has-been-moved-museum/8064468002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">removed \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the bust of the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan from the state capitol.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Unfortunately, it’s up to our generation to push back and let them know we are not going to be silent anymore,” said Ren Peters, 18, who plans to study oceanography in college this fall in Florida, but wants to come back to his home state and continue fighting for stricter gun control. “We are going to be heard. You are not going to push us around. This isn’t a dictatorship.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shultz, who is also the school’s debate team coach, described the lesson in democracy she and about 25 Hume-Fogg students received last Thursday, when student government leaders from the school held a peaceful demonstration in support of Pearson and Jones in front of the capitol alongside their principal. Many waited in a packed tunnel for two hours to enter the building before they were confronted by state troopers who told them the building was full and they couldn’t enter, Schultz recalled.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61395\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtney Shultz, an English teacher and debate coach at Hume-Fogg High School in Nashville, protesting inaction on gun laws at the state capitol in Tennessee last week with senior Ren Peters. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Coutney Shultz.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The students carried small signs (after being warned they could not be larger than 8.5 x 11) with slogans like “Make Murder More Difficult,” and “We Just Want to Live Through High School.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They led chants and songs, including the renowned gospel tune \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/06/630051651/american-anthem-this-little-light-of-mine-resistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This little light of mine.”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Several said they have been angry at the lack of stricter gun control laws in Tennessee and elsewhere for years, along with their legislature’s more recent focus on banning books, abortion and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160784530/tennessee-ban-public-drag-shows-transgender-health-care-youth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">drag shows.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have been repeatedly asked to be patient. At this point, patience is ignorance,” Hume-Fogg senior Wyatt Bassow wrote in a letter to Republican \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tennessee Gov\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Bill Lee, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2023/04/09/gen-z-tired-being-patient-gun-reform-nashville-shooting/11621908002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">published\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in USA Today. “The reason this keeps happening is not drag shows or video games or a leftist agenda or books or schools or dress code or ‘wokeness’ or civil rights.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like Ren, Wyatt plans to attend college in Florida, but told me he sees a future for himself in Tennessee, perhaps in politics. He’s both outraged and energized by what he witnessed in the state capitol. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is fascism. We are looking at it straight in the face, and the first step to fascism is silence,” Wyatt told me. “That’s why I want to come back here and make havoc. I know I can make change, even though our democracy is fragile.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-61396\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students held up signs after marching to the state capitol in Tennessee to make their voices heard, as teacher Courtney Shultz has encouraged them to do. The Tennessee expulsion has ignited anger among students across Nashville. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Courtney Shultz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Safiyah, a member of the mayor’s youth council, has more practice at protesting than her classmates Ren and Wyatt. She’s the daughter\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of at-large Metro Council member \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://zulfatsuara.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zulfat Suara,\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> who came to Tennessee the U.S. from Nigeria in 1993 and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tennessean.com/picture-gallery/news/2023/04/07/vp-kamala-harris-meets-tennessee-three/11623365002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">was with\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Vice President Kamala Harris when she visited Nashville on April 7 and told protestors: “Your voices are part of the conscience of our country.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Safiyah has already \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2023/02/18/donald-trump-protest-nashville-road-name-change-john-lewis-way/69912918007/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">led a rally\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to stop Republicans from changing part of a Tennessee street named for Georgia Democrat and civil rights icon Rep. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/john-lewis-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">John Lewis\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to Donald Trump Boulevard. She’s met members of Lewis’s family in Alabama, and knows both Jones and Pearson. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ouster felt even more personal because Safiyah knows both men. The two legislators, both of whom are Black, were ousted while Rep. Gloria Jones, who is white and who also joined the protestors, was not. Collectively they’ve become known as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/04/tennessee-house-expulsion-gloria-johnson-justin-jones-justin-pearson/70080338007/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The Tennessee Three,”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> but only Jones and Pearson must now \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/09/justin-pearson-tennessee-expelled-00091113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">fight\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to get their positions back.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once school is out today, Safiyah will \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/zulfat4council/status/1645118911413616647/photo/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">head back to the state capitol\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in support of Jones and Pearson, where a special meeting of the city’s metro council will be held to discuss the vacant seats. She said she feels tired. But when Safiyah enters \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rhodes.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rhodes College\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Memphis next fall, she’ll continue fighting and protesting, making the kind of “good trouble” Rep. John Lewis personified.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“He would be sick to his stomach seeing everything that is happening,” Safiyah told me. “He’d be sad for the state of Tennessee.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s certain that he would also be heartened by the voices of young students, pushing back, just as Safiyah was taught to do from the time she was born.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“My mom,” Safiya told me, “has always taught me that if you don’t have a seat at the table, full up a folding chair.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This opinion column about the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/column-nashville-student-activists-not-willing-to-wait-a-generation-for-gun-control/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tennessee expulsion\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/newsletters/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sign up\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for our weekly newsletters. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Despite anguish over gun violence and the Tennessee state legislature’s failure to act, high schoolers in Nashville have hopes for building a better Tennessee, a state with a history of racism and segregation.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1682461126,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":1211},"headData":{"title":"Why Nashville student activists aren't willing to wait a generation for gun control | KQED","description":"Despite anguish over gun violence and the Tennessee state legislature’s failure to act, high schoolers in Nashville have hopes for building a better Tennessee, a state with a history of racism and segregation.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Why Nashville student activists aren't willing to wait a generation for gun control","datePublished":"2023-04-10T20:00:44.000Z","dateModified":"2023-04-25T22:18:46.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"nprByline":"Liz Willen, \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/61388/why-nashville-student-activists-arent-going-to-wait-a-generation-for-gun-control","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This opinion column about the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/column-nashville-student-activists-not-willing-to-wait-a-generation-for-gun-control/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tennessee expulsion\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/newsletters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sign up\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for Hechinger’s weekly newsletters. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Activism has been part of \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Safiyah Suara’s\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> young life since her politician mother hauled her along to demonstrations in a baby carrier. That’s why she’ll be spending this week protesting guns and the expulsion from the Tennessee House of two Democratic lawmakers by their Republican colleagues. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s hoping more young Tennesseans will join her.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The most important thing is to keep speaking out, and to show the legislature and the rest of the world that we won’t stop fighting,” said Safiyah, an 18-year-old senior at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://humefogg.mnps.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hume-Fogg\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a magnet high school just four a few blocks from the state capitol.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some 7,000 students who walked out of school in Nashville on April 3 did exactly that, after three children and three adults were killed by an assailant armed with semi-automatic weapons at a nearby church-affiliated school. They \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/nashville-children-scream-republicans-gun-control-viral-photo-1792437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">confronted lawmakers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the capitol, then later watched in dismay as a Republican majority ousted Rep. Justin Pearson and Rep. Justin Jones for interrupting debate by leading a gun control protest on March 30 inside the chamber.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Sunday, the day before yet another mass shooting left five dead in Louisville, I spoke via Zoom with Safiyah and two of her Hume-Fogg classmates, along with their English teacher \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/contributors/2023/03/30/covenant-school-shooting-may-our-children-succeed-in-ending-violence/70058947007/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Courtney Shultz.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> They described what they see as an attack on democracy, one that has trained the nation’s eyes on their home state. Despite anguish over gun violence and the legislature’s failure to act on the issue, the high school seniors hope to build a better Tennessee, a state with a history of racism and segregation that only recently \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/07/23/tennessees-nathan-bedford-forrest-bust-has-been-moved-museum/8064468002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">removed \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the bust of the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan from the state capitol.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Unfortunately, it’s up to our generation to push back and let them know we are not going to be silent anymore,” said Ren Peters, 18, who plans to study oceanography in college this fall in Florida, but wants to come back to his home state and continue fighting for stricter gun control. “We are going to be heard. You are not going to push us around. This isn’t a dictatorship.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shultz, who is also the school’s debate team coach, described the lesson in democracy she and about 25 Hume-Fogg students received last Thursday, when student government leaders from the school held a peaceful demonstration in support of Pearson and Jones in front of the capitol alongside their principal. Many waited in a packed tunnel for two hours to enter the building before they were confronted by state troopers who told them the building was full and they couldn’t enter, Schultz recalled.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61395\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtney Shultz, an English teacher and debate coach at Hume-Fogg High School in Nashville, protesting inaction on gun laws at the state capitol in Tennessee last week with senior Ren Peters. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Coutney Shultz.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The students carried small signs (after being warned they could not be larger than 8.5 x 11) with slogans like “Make Murder More Difficult,” and “We Just Want to Live Through High School.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They led chants and songs, including the renowned gospel tune \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/06/630051651/american-anthem-this-little-light-of-mine-resistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This little light of mine.”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Several said they have been angry at the lack of stricter gun control laws in Tennessee and elsewhere for years, along with their legislature’s more recent focus on banning books, abortion and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160784530/tennessee-ban-public-drag-shows-transgender-health-care-youth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">drag shows.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have been repeatedly asked to be patient. At this point, patience is ignorance,” Hume-Fogg senior Wyatt Bassow wrote in a letter to Republican \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tennessee Gov\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Bill Lee, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2023/04/09/gen-z-tired-being-patient-gun-reform-nashville-shooting/11621908002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">published\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in USA Today. “The reason this keeps happening is not drag shows or video games or a leftist agenda or books or schools or dress code or ‘wokeness’ or civil rights.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like Ren, Wyatt plans to attend college in Florida, but told me he sees a future for himself in Tennessee, perhaps in politics. He’s both outraged and energized by what he witnessed in the state capitol. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is fascism. We are looking at it straight in the face, and the first step to fascism is silence,” Wyatt told me. “That’s why I want to come back here and make havoc. I know I can make change, even though our democracy is fragile.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-61396\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students held up signs after marching to the state capitol in Tennessee to make their voices heard, as teacher Courtney Shultz has encouraged them to do. The Tennessee expulsion has ignited anger among students across Nashville. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Courtney Shultz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Safiyah, a member of the mayor’s youth council, has more practice at protesting than her classmates Ren and Wyatt. She’s the daughter\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of at-large Metro Council member \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://zulfatsuara.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zulfat Suara,\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> who came to Tennessee the U.S. from Nigeria in 1993 and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tennessean.com/picture-gallery/news/2023/04/07/vp-kamala-harris-meets-tennessee-three/11623365002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">was with\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Vice President Kamala Harris when she visited Nashville on April 7 and told protestors: “Your voices are part of the conscience of our country.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Safiyah has already \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2023/02/18/donald-trump-protest-nashville-road-name-change-john-lewis-way/69912918007/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">led a rally\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to stop Republicans from changing part of a Tennessee street named for Georgia Democrat and civil rights icon Rep. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/john-lewis-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">John Lewis\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to Donald Trump Boulevard. She’s met members of Lewis’s family in Alabama, and knows both Jones and Pearson. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ouster felt even more personal because Safiyah knows both men. The two legislators, both of whom are Black, were ousted while Rep. Gloria Jones, who is white and who also joined the protestors, was not. Collectively they’ve become known as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/04/tennessee-house-expulsion-gloria-johnson-justin-jones-justin-pearson/70080338007/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The Tennessee Three,”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> but only Jones and Pearson must now \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/09/justin-pearson-tennessee-expelled-00091113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">fight\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to get their positions back.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once school is out today, Safiyah will \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/zulfat4council/status/1645118911413616647/photo/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">head back to the state capitol\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in support of Jones and Pearson, where a special meeting of the city’s metro council will be held to discuss the vacant seats. She said she feels tired. But when Safiyah enters \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rhodes.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rhodes College\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Memphis next fall, she’ll continue fighting and protesting, making the kind of “good trouble” Rep. John Lewis personified.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“He would be sick to his stomach seeing everything that is happening,” Safiyah told me. “He’d be sad for the state of Tennessee.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s certain that he would also be heartened by the voices of young students, pushing back, just as Safiyah was taught to do from the time she was born.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“My mom,” Safiya told me, “has always taught me that if you don’t have a seat at the table, full up a folding chair.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This opinion column about the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/column-nashville-student-activists-not-willing-to-wait-a-generation-for-gun-control/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tennessee expulsion\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/newsletters/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sign up\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for our weekly newsletters. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/61388/why-nashville-student-activists-arent-going-to-wait-a-generation-for-gun-control","authors":["byline_mindshift_61388"],"categories":["mindshift_21445","mindshift_192"],"tags":["mindshift_21585","mindshift_21466","mindshift_21467","mindshift_21278","mindshift_20624","mindshift_21586"],"featImg":"mindshift_61389","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_57885":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_57885","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"57885","score":null,"sort":[1621321439000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"be-proud-of-where-you-come-from-an-indian-american-teens-winning-podcast","title":"'Be Proud Of Where You Come From': An Indian-American Teen's Winning Podcast","publishDate":1621321439,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>Kriti Sarav does her best work in a narrow bedroom closet. Wedged in among plastic storage bins full of spare sheets, blankets, and pillows, the 16-year-old podcaster sits at a small desk with a microphone and headphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We got really lucky because when we moved into this house, they had this desk here,\" Kriti says. \"I like it for podcasting now — and storage, obviously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was in this tiny closet that Kriti recorded the podcast that won our high school grand prize in this year's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/662609200/npr-student-podcast-challenge\">NPR Student Podcast Challenge\u003c/a>. The story, about her struggle to embrace her Indian-American identity, was the unanimous choice among the judges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1006663348\" params=\"color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"My very own bully\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cem>Kriti Sarav, High School Winner\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cem>University of Chicago Laboratory School, Chicago, Ill.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(You can listen to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/996508586\">middle school winner\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/22/989728151/npr-student-podcast-winner-uncovers-family-secret-looks-for-donor-dad\">college \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/23/987671620/family-lore-fact-check-finding-the-teen-muhammad-ali-boxed-along-the-way\">winners \u003c/a>on the Student Podcast Challenge \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/662609200/npr-student-podcast-challenge\">homepage\u003c/a>. Check out this year's \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/996191376\">honorable mentions\u003c/a> while you're at it!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we visited Kriti in Chicago, something else in her makeshift studio caught our eye: a shrine carved of wood, about the size of a basketball, that sits empty for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like a mini-temple kind of thing,\" Kriti says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside once sat a small figure of the elephant-headed Hindu god, Ganesha. Kriti says it used to hang in their old house, \"but now we just took his figure and put it down in our kitchen because this was a little too bulky and heavy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kriti identifies as Indian-American and says the hyphen is important: Her podcast is all about growing up between cultures and how, at times she resented the parts of herself that didn't seem to fit the mold she saw around her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My honey-brown skin contrasted greatly with the peachy whites and olives of my friends,\" Kriti says, early in the episode. \"My parents called me \u003cem>raja\u003c/em> and \u003cem>beta\u003c/em>, not munchkin or cutie-pie. When I opened up my lunchbox, I had a thermos full of daal and rice and chapati and roti — not mac n' cheese or PB&J.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57887\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57887\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/05/oobineme_npr_photos_studentpodcastchallenge_kitrisarav_20210507-9780_slide-11f11d94205fbb3ce60c7270a00ac7d206a9e68c-e1621494450328.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NPR Student Podcast Challenge winner Kitri Sarav gazes in the mirror after applying a bindi on her forehead and a tikka along the parting of her hair. Chicago, Illinois, Friday, May 7, 2021. \u003ccite>(Olivia Obineme/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The older she got, the more insecure she became about her Indian heritage, especially when her grandmother would visit Chicago from India, wearing a sari and the traditional red bindi on her forehead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I hated the way other kids would look at my grandma and me shopping. I hated the way they would ask if her bindi was a mole,\" Kriti says in one of the podcast's most painful moments. \"Deep down, I wanted to rip that bindi off her head and cut off her long, thick, dark, braided hair and put a nice dress with a blue cardigan on her.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of internalizing these feelings of otherness, Kriti says, she realized recently that \u003cem>she\u003c/em> had become her biggest critic. And she wrote her winning podcast, \"\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/user-868903390-84850882/my-very-own-bully\">My Very Own Bully\u003c/a>,\" to take back the narrative and finally say: Enough is enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kriti says for so long she worried about seeming different, because the world was constantly telling her she \u003cem>was\u003c/em> different. She remembers being 9 years old, when, out of the blue, a classmate told her: \"Hey Kriti, your skin's the color of poop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, there were the constant, agonizing mispronunciations of her name:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kreedy, Kyreetee, Chrissy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I got an award,\" Kriti says, sitting on the floor outside her closet studio. \"And they said my name was Chrissy Sarva. And that's just not my name!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the record, it's pronounced \u003cem>KRIH-thee suh-RAHV\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a kid, Kriti started to believe all these messages, telling her implicitly or explicitly that she was different, that she was \u003cem>weird\u003c/em>. For years she hated her name, and says she once asked her mom if she could simply go by Kiki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On the tennis court, no one really says my name right. And I do think that contributes to a lack of self-confidence on the court,\" Kriti says. \"I've never corrected anybody on the tennis court, and I don't know why it is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But making her podcast, and coming to grips with her identity, she says, taught her a lesson:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It really doesn't matter what you or anyone else, for that matter, says to me,\" Kriti says toward the end of her podcast. \"What matters are the words that I whisper, day in and day out, to myself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What are those words?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kriti leans across the bedroom floor and, with a smile, whispers quietly into our microphone:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am strong. I am powerful. You have such an amazing and vibrant culture. You should just be proud of who you are. Be proud of where you come from.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kriti hopes her story can provide some comfort to all the other kids out there who've felt this kind of isolation and pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57888\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57888\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/05/oobineme_npr_photos_studentpodcastchallenge_kitrisarav_20210507-9705_slide-39be688ad22c27ef1104a19975cd2670db8fe958-e1621494494688.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarav sits in her study in her family's home. \u003ccite>(Olivia Obineme for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, when Kriti isn't in school or on the tennis court, she's sitting in that narrow closet, next to Ganesha's empty shrine, talking into the microphone about... financial literacy. She has a podcast called \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.whyfimatters.com/\">WhyFI Matters\u003c/a>\" and you can listen to it \u003ca href=\"https://www.whyfimatters.com/listen\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Be+Proud+Of+Where+You+Come+From%27%3A+An+Indian-American+Teen%27s+Winning+Podcast&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"This year's high school winner in the NPR Student Podcast Challenge tackles the complexities of her Indian-American identity. 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Wedged in among plastic storage bins full of spare sheets, blankets, and pillows, the 16-year-old podcaster sits at a small desk with a microphone and headphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We got really lucky because when we moved into this house, they had this desk here,\" Kriti says. \"I like it for podcasting now — and storage, obviously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was in this tiny closet that Kriti recorded the podcast that won our high school grand prize in this year's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/662609200/npr-student-podcast-challenge\">NPR Student Podcast Challenge\u003c/a>. The story, about her struggle to embrace her Indian-American identity, was the unanimous choice among the judges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1006663348&visual=true&color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1006663348'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"My very own bully\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cem>Kriti Sarav, High School Winner\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cem>University of Chicago Laboratory School, Chicago, Ill.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(You can listen to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/996508586\">middle school winner\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/22/989728151/npr-student-podcast-winner-uncovers-family-secret-looks-for-donor-dad\">college \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/23/987671620/family-lore-fact-check-finding-the-teen-muhammad-ali-boxed-along-the-way\">winners \u003c/a>on the Student Podcast Challenge \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/662609200/npr-student-podcast-challenge\">homepage\u003c/a>. Check out this year's \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/996191376\">honorable mentions\u003c/a> while you're at it!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we visited Kriti in Chicago, something else in her makeshift studio caught our eye: a shrine carved of wood, about the size of a basketball, that sits empty for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like a mini-temple kind of thing,\" Kriti says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside once sat a small figure of the elephant-headed Hindu god, Ganesha. Kriti says it used to hang in their old house, \"but now we just took his figure and put it down in our kitchen because this was a little too bulky and heavy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kriti identifies as Indian-American and says the hyphen is important: Her podcast is all about growing up between cultures and how, at times she resented the parts of herself that didn't seem to fit the mold she saw around her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My honey-brown skin contrasted greatly with the peachy whites and olives of my friends,\" Kriti says, early in the episode. \"My parents called me \u003cem>raja\u003c/em> and \u003cem>beta\u003c/em>, not munchkin or cutie-pie. When I opened up my lunchbox, I had a thermos full of daal and rice and chapati and roti — not mac n' cheese or PB&J.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57887\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57887\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/05/oobineme_npr_photos_studentpodcastchallenge_kitrisarav_20210507-9780_slide-11f11d94205fbb3ce60c7270a00ac7d206a9e68c-e1621494450328.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NPR Student Podcast Challenge winner Kitri Sarav gazes in the mirror after applying a bindi on her forehead and a tikka along the parting of her hair. Chicago, Illinois, Friday, May 7, 2021. \u003ccite>(Olivia Obineme/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The older she got, the more insecure she became about her Indian heritage, especially when her grandmother would visit Chicago from India, wearing a sari and the traditional red bindi on her forehead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I hated the way other kids would look at my grandma and me shopping. I hated the way they would ask if her bindi was a mole,\" Kriti says in one of the podcast's most painful moments. \"Deep down, I wanted to rip that bindi off her head and cut off her long, thick, dark, braided hair and put a nice dress with a blue cardigan on her.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of internalizing these feelings of otherness, Kriti says, she realized recently that \u003cem>she\u003c/em> had become her biggest critic. And she wrote her winning podcast, \"\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/user-868903390-84850882/my-very-own-bully\">My Very Own Bully\u003c/a>,\" to take back the narrative and finally say: Enough is enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kriti says for so long she worried about seeming different, because the world was constantly telling her she \u003cem>was\u003c/em> different. She remembers being 9 years old, when, out of the blue, a classmate told her: \"Hey Kriti, your skin's the color of poop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, there were the constant, agonizing mispronunciations of her name:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kreedy, Kyreetee, Chrissy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I got an award,\" Kriti says, sitting on the floor outside her closet studio. \"And they said my name was Chrissy Sarva. And that's just not my name!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the record, it's pronounced \u003cem>KRIH-thee suh-RAHV\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a kid, Kriti started to believe all these messages, telling her implicitly or explicitly that she was different, that she was \u003cem>weird\u003c/em>. For years she hated her name, and says she once asked her mom if she could simply go by Kiki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On the tennis court, no one really says my name right. And I do think that contributes to a lack of self-confidence on the court,\" Kriti says. \"I've never corrected anybody on the tennis court, and I don't know why it is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But making her podcast, and coming to grips with her identity, she says, taught her a lesson:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It really doesn't matter what you or anyone else, for that matter, says to me,\" Kriti says toward the end of her podcast. \"What matters are the words that I whisper, day in and day out, to myself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What are those words?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kriti leans across the bedroom floor and, with a smile, whispers quietly into our microphone:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am strong. I am powerful. You have such an amazing and vibrant culture. You should just be proud of who you are. Be proud of where you come from.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kriti hopes her story can provide some comfort to all the other kids out there who've felt this kind of isolation and pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57888\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57888\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/05/oobineme_npr_photos_studentpodcastchallenge_kitrisarav_20210507-9705_slide-39be688ad22c27ef1104a19975cd2670db8fe958-e1621494494688.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarav sits in her study in her family's home. \u003ccite>(Olivia Obineme for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, when Kriti isn't in school or on the tennis court, she's sitting in that narrow closet, next to Ganesha's empty shrine, talking into the microphone about... financial literacy. She has a podcast called \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.whyfimatters.com/\">WhyFI Matters\u003c/a>\" and you can listen to it \u003ca href=\"https://www.whyfimatters.com/listen\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Be+Proud+Of+Where+You+Come+From%27%3A+An+Indian-American+Teen%27s+Winning+Podcast&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/57885/be-proud-of-where-you-come-from-an-indian-american-teens-winning-podcast","authors":["byline_mindshift_57885"],"categories":["mindshift_20874"],"tags":["mindshift_20984","mindshift_21425","mindshift_74","mindshift_486","mindshift_20624"],"featImg":"mindshift_57886","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_56526":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_56526","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"56526","score":null,"sort":[1597739330000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-student-activists-want-teachers-to-know-about-virtual-learning-and-reopening-schools","title":"What Student Activists Want Teachers To Know About Virtual Learning and Reopening Schools","publishDate":1597739330,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier this summer, as her school district started discussing \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56430/how-safe-is-your-schools-reopening-plan-heres-what-to-look-for\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">how and when to reopen schools\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, 17-year-old Chloe Pressley noticed a missing voice. She and her friends were talking about the options, of course, yet school officials had only sought input from adults, including parents and staff. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That really concerned me honestly, because I was like, ‘I'm going to be the one who’s going to have to go to class every day and mask for, what, seven hours straight? And I'm not sure if I can do that, but nobody's asking me how I feel.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So Pressley got busy. The rising senior at C.D. Hylton High School in Virginia reached out to friends, circulated digital flyers and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://wjla.com/news/local/prince-william-county-students-weigh-in-schools-reopening-board-votes\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">created a student voice hashtag\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to gather students’ input on what the fall semester should like. Then she called her school board representative. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56527\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-56527 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/08/Chloe-Pressley-e1597734926574.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"304\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chloe Pressley \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Chloe Pressley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“She picked up right away, which was surprising,” Pressley said, and in the weeks that followed, the board incorporated student feedback into its considerations of hybrid and remote learning. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Board members aren’t the only ones who can benefit from hearing more student voices. In interviews with MindShift and at a recent journalism conference, Pressley and other high school activists shared how teachers can \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56373/can-online-learning-be-better-this-fall-these-educators-think-so\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">improve distance learning\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56068/how-teachers-want-emergency-distance-learning-improved\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">uneven experiences\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of the spring. What matters most, they said, is that virtual learning includes authentic work, social interaction and empathy for the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56247/high-schoolers-share-their-worlds-with-us\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">challenges teenagers are facing\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> during the COVID-19 crisis.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>\u003cb>Authentic work and human connections make a difference\u003c/b>\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When schools closed last March, many districts could not ensure that all students had a computer and internet access for \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/distance-learning\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">virtual learning\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Instead, they used paper packets to replace classroom instruction and assignments. Those packets fulfilled the educational mission in word but not deed, according to Eric Luo, a rising senior at West Ranch High School in California. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There was just kind of busywork to fill out the rest of the year,” he said during a youth voices panel at the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ewa.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Education Writers Association\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> National Seminar in July. Luo, who is a co-founder of a youth-run grocery delivery service for at-risk individuals, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sixfeetsupplies.com/about\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Six Feet Supplies\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, said that this fall he wants his teachers to assign “actual work rather than just packets and multiple choice tests that don't really mean anything.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Busywork contributed to decreased motivation for many students, according to 17-year-old Krupa Hegde, a project lead for the “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://prichardcommittee.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0724f72ab49b2ab8c4de76939&id=e7365b571f&e=712676e9af\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coping with COVID-19 Student-to-Student Survey\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,” which was completed by more than 9,000 students in Kentucky in May. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the survey, 57% of students reported that they were less motivated during emergency distance learning, and 65% reported that they were less engaged. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56528\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-56528 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/08/KrupaHegdeHeadshot-e1597734577168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"282\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Krupa Hegde \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Krupa Hegde)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55595/staying-in-touch-why-kids-need-teachers-during-coronavirus-school-closings\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hearing from teachers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> can mitigate those outcomes. Students whose teachers communicated with them two or more times per week were less likely to report a decrease in motivation than students whose teachers touched base less frequently, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.prichardcommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Coping-with-COVID-Executive-Summary.pdf\">survey\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Teacher engagement has been huge with regards to students’ perception of their motivation and engagement,\" said Hegde, who is a rising senior at The Gatton Academy in Kentucky. \"There's a sweet spot for teachers to communicate where it's about once every day, but not too much and not too little.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Student activists also said they want virtual learning to include more live interaction. Zoe Monterola, Luo’s Six Feet Supplies co-founder and a rising senior at Valencia High School in California, said she wants teachers to “know how much we appreciate Zoom calls and having the personal connection with them, whether that be having open office hours or engaging online classes instead of just Google Classroom assignments.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Synchronous classes are important opportunities for interacting with peers in a time when many young people’s social lives have been \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55729/how-will-social-isolation-during-covid-19-affect-our-kids\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">dramatically circumscribed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Social connections are, after all, “the good part of school” for many students, as 17-year-old Mohammad Ahmadi put it. Ahmadi is the communications coordinator for the youth climate action group \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://earthuprising.org/about-us/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earth Uprising\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and a rising senior at Hinsdale Central High School in Illinois. He told MindShift that his workload last spring was about the same as before, but most of his classes did not meet virtually. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We were basically on our own,” he said. To improve virtual learning, Ahmadi suggested that teachers offer 15 to 30 minutes of live instruction, followed by small group exercises or time to ask questions. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56530\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-56530\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/08/Mohammad-Ahmadi2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/08/Mohammad-Ahmadi2.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/08/Mohammad-Ahmadi2-800x533.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/08/Mohammad-Ahmadi2-1020x680.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/08/Mohammad-Ahmadi2-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/08/Mohammad-Ahmadi2-768x512.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/08/Mohammad-Ahmadi2-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohammad Ahmadi \u003ccite>(Photo by Zamaan Qureshi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch1>\u003cb>Teens’ struggles are real\u003c/b>\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coupled with human connections, student activists want to see \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/empathy\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">empathy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for the numerous and varied challenges teenagers face right now. “(Teachers) shouldn’t expect us to be at top performance. It’s hard for students to perform and think and collaborate as they did before the pandemic,” said Ahmadi. For Monterola, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55748/with-senior-year-in-disarray-teens-and-young-adults-feel-lost-heres-how-to-help\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">uncertainty around post-secondary plans\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was top of mind. “Being a rising senior, I'd want teachers to know that we have a lot of responsibilities and applying (to college) during a pandemic is hard. … The entire college application process has definitely been \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/12/900173338/how-the-coronavirus-has-upended-college-admissions\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">upended\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with the disruption in our school year from recommendations (to) extracurriculars, etcetera.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For some students, the economic fallout of the COVID-19 crisis is the biggest concern. In the Kentucky study, nearly one-third of students had parents who lost a job or experienced reduced hours or pay cuts since the start of the pandemic. Those students reported more worries about school, and students who took on more work themselves were most likely to spend less than one hour per day on school. Schools need to ensure that such students are supported moving forward, said Stephanie Pacheco, a member of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.teenstakecharge.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teens Take Charge\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a student organizing group in New York City. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Now more than ever, I think that the issues that low-income students face on a regular basis ... they have been just so \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55976/survey-shows-big-remote-learning-gaps-for-low-income-and-special-needs-children\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">extremely highlighted\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And I think it is crucial for teachers to not forget that the struggle that students are facing and have been facing throughout their entire schooling, they’re very real,” Pacheco said during the EWA youth voices panel.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With empathy for those struggles comes the need for flexibility. So even though teens wanted more live engagement in virtual learning, they also advocated for making asynchronous options available to students with limited internet access or \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://whyy.org/articles/teens-as-essential-workers-how-high-schoolers-stepped-up-for-family-during-covid-19/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">those who have jobs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.the74million.org/article/when-siblings-become-teachers-its-not-just-parents-who-find-themselves-thrust-into-the-demanding-role-of-at-home-educators/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">family responsibilities\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> during class times.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>\u003cb>Seeking student voice\u003c/b>\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As with everything during the COVID-19 pandemic, young people’s experiences will continue to change as public health conditions, the economy and family situations evolve. Responding to students’ needs will require educators to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56393/why-student-voice-is-critical-for-managing-discipline-when-schools-reopen\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">seek out student voices\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on a regular basis. Pressley recommended that teachers survey students before the school year begins to find out about their learning styles, schedules and other responsibilities. Hegde, too, advocated for teachers to ask students what’s working and not working, whether that’s through surveys or class discussions. In a year full of negative events, she believes that classroom spaces in which students feel free to voice those opinions — and where teachers implement meaningful changes — are most likely to result in a positive school experience.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"According to a student-led survey, students who heard from teachers two or more times per week were less likely to report a decrease in motivation than students whose teachers touched base less frequently.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1597821095,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1256},"headData":{"title":"What Student Activists Want Teachers To Know About Virtual Learning and Reopening Schools - MindShift","description":"According to a student-led survey, students who heard from teachers two or more times per week were less likely to report a decrease in motivation than students whose teachers touched base less frequently.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"What Student Activists Want Teachers To Know About Virtual Learning and Reopening Schools","datePublished":"2020-08-18T08:28:50.000Z","dateModified":"2020-08-19T07:11:35.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"56526 https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=56526","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2020/08/18/what-student-activists-want-teachers-to-know-about-virtual-learning-and-reopening-schools/","disqusTitle":"What Student Activists Want Teachers To Know About Virtual Learning and Reopening Schools","subhead":"Synchronous classes help students feel connected; busywork makes them feel disengaged.","path":"/mindshift/56526/what-student-activists-want-teachers-to-know-about-virtual-learning-and-reopening-schools","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier this summer, as her school district started discussing \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56430/how-safe-is-your-schools-reopening-plan-heres-what-to-look-for\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">how and when to reopen schools\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, 17-year-old Chloe Pressley noticed a missing voice. She and her friends were talking about the options, of course, yet school officials had only sought input from adults, including parents and staff. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That really concerned me honestly, because I was like, ‘I'm going to be the one who’s going to have to go to class every day and mask for, what, seven hours straight? And I'm not sure if I can do that, but nobody's asking me how I feel.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So Pressley got busy. The rising senior at C.D. Hylton High School in Virginia reached out to friends, circulated digital flyers and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://wjla.com/news/local/prince-william-county-students-weigh-in-schools-reopening-board-votes\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">created a student voice hashtag\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to gather students’ input on what the fall semester should like. Then she called her school board representative. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56527\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-56527 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/08/Chloe-Pressley-e1597734926574.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"304\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chloe Pressley \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Chloe Pressley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“She picked up right away, which was surprising,” Pressley said, and in the weeks that followed, the board incorporated student feedback into its considerations of hybrid and remote learning. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Board members aren’t the only ones who can benefit from hearing more student voices. In interviews with MindShift and at a recent journalism conference, Pressley and other high school activists shared how teachers can \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56373/can-online-learning-be-better-this-fall-these-educators-think-so\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">improve distance learning\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56068/how-teachers-want-emergency-distance-learning-improved\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">uneven experiences\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of the spring. What matters most, they said, is that virtual learning includes authentic work, social interaction and empathy for the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56247/high-schoolers-share-their-worlds-with-us\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">challenges teenagers are facing\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> during the COVID-19 crisis.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>\u003cb>Authentic work and human connections make a difference\u003c/b>\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When schools closed last March, many districts could not ensure that all students had a computer and internet access for \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/distance-learning\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">virtual learning\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Instead, they used paper packets to replace classroom instruction and assignments. Those packets fulfilled the educational mission in word but not deed, according to Eric Luo, a rising senior at West Ranch High School in California. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There was just kind of busywork to fill out the rest of the year,” he said during a youth voices panel at the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ewa.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Education Writers Association\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> National Seminar in July. Luo, who is a co-founder of a youth-run grocery delivery service for at-risk individuals, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sixfeetsupplies.com/about\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Six Feet Supplies\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, said that this fall he wants his teachers to assign “actual work rather than just packets and multiple choice tests that don't really mean anything.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Busywork contributed to decreased motivation for many students, according to 17-year-old Krupa Hegde, a project lead for the “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://prichardcommittee.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0724f72ab49b2ab8c4de76939&id=e7365b571f&e=712676e9af\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coping with COVID-19 Student-to-Student Survey\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,” which was completed by more than 9,000 students in Kentucky in May. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the survey, 57% of students reported that they were less motivated during emergency distance learning, and 65% reported that they were less engaged. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56528\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-56528 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/08/KrupaHegdeHeadshot-e1597734577168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"282\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Krupa Hegde \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Krupa Hegde)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55595/staying-in-touch-why-kids-need-teachers-during-coronavirus-school-closings\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hearing from teachers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> can mitigate those outcomes. Students whose teachers communicated with them two or more times per week were less likely to report a decrease in motivation than students whose teachers touched base less frequently, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.prichardcommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Coping-with-COVID-Executive-Summary.pdf\">survey\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Teacher engagement has been huge with regards to students’ perception of their motivation and engagement,\" said Hegde, who is a rising senior at The Gatton Academy in Kentucky. \"There's a sweet spot for teachers to communicate where it's about once every day, but not too much and not too little.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Student activists also said they want virtual learning to include more live interaction. Zoe Monterola, Luo’s Six Feet Supplies co-founder and a rising senior at Valencia High School in California, said she wants teachers to “know how much we appreciate Zoom calls and having the personal connection with them, whether that be having open office hours or engaging online classes instead of just Google Classroom assignments.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Synchronous classes are important opportunities for interacting with peers in a time when many young people’s social lives have been \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55729/how-will-social-isolation-during-covid-19-affect-our-kids\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">dramatically circumscribed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Social connections are, after all, “the good part of school” for many students, as 17-year-old Mohammad Ahmadi put it. Ahmadi is the communications coordinator for the youth climate action group \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://earthuprising.org/about-us/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earth Uprising\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and a rising senior at Hinsdale Central High School in Illinois. He told MindShift that his workload last spring was about the same as before, but most of his classes did not meet virtually. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We were basically on our own,” he said. To improve virtual learning, Ahmadi suggested that teachers offer 15 to 30 minutes of live instruction, followed by small group exercises or time to ask questions. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56530\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-56530\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/08/Mohammad-Ahmadi2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/08/Mohammad-Ahmadi2.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/08/Mohammad-Ahmadi2-800x533.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/08/Mohammad-Ahmadi2-1020x680.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/08/Mohammad-Ahmadi2-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/08/Mohammad-Ahmadi2-768x512.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/08/Mohammad-Ahmadi2-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohammad Ahmadi \u003ccite>(Photo by Zamaan Qureshi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch1>\u003cb>Teens’ struggles are real\u003c/b>\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coupled with human connections, student activists want to see \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/empathy\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">empathy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for the numerous and varied challenges teenagers face right now. “(Teachers) shouldn’t expect us to be at top performance. It’s hard for students to perform and think and collaborate as they did before the pandemic,” said Ahmadi. For Monterola, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55748/with-senior-year-in-disarray-teens-and-young-adults-feel-lost-heres-how-to-help\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">uncertainty around post-secondary plans\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was top of mind. “Being a rising senior, I'd want teachers to know that we have a lot of responsibilities and applying (to college) during a pandemic is hard. … The entire college application process has definitely been \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/12/900173338/how-the-coronavirus-has-upended-college-admissions\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">upended\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with the disruption in our school year from recommendations (to) extracurriculars, etcetera.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For some students, the economic fallout of the COVID-19 crisis is the biggest concern. In the Kentucky study, nearly one-third of students had parents who lost a job or experienced reduced hours or pay cuts since the start of the pandemic. Those students reported more worries about school, and students who took on more work themselves were most likely to spend less than one hour per day on school. Schools need to ensure that such students are supported moving forward, said Stephanie Pacheco, a member of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.teenstakecharge.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teens Take Charge\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a student organizing group in New York City. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Now more than ever, I think that the issues that low-income students face on a regular basis ... they have been just so \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55976/survey-shows-big-remote-learning-gaps-for-low-income-and-special-needs-children\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">extremely highlighted\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And I think it is crucial for teachers to not forget that the struggle that students are facing and have been facing throughout their entire schooling, they’re very real,” Pacheco said during the EWA youth voices panel.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With empathy for those struggles comes the need for flexibility. So even though teens wanted more live engagement in virtual learning, they also advocated for making asynchronous options available to students with limited internet access or \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://whyy.org/articles/teens-as-essential-workers-how-high-schoolers-stepped-up-for-family-during-covid-19/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">those who have jobs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.the74million.org/article/when-siblings-become-teachers-its-not-just-parents-who-find-themselves-thrust-into-the-demanding-role-of-at-home-educators/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">family responsibilities\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> during class times.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>\u003cb>Seeking student voice\u003c/b>\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As with everything during the COVID-19 pandemic, young people’s experiences will continue to change as public health conditions, the economy and family situations evolve. Responding to students’ needs will require educators to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56393/why-student-voice-is-critical-for-managing-discipline-when-schools-reopen\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">seek out student voices\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on a regular basis. Pressley recommended that teachers survey students before the school year begins to find out about their learning styles, schedules and other responsibilities. Hegde, too, advocated for teachers to ask students what’s working and not working, whether that’s through surveys or class discussions. In a year full of negative events, she believes that classroom spaces in which students feel free to voice those opinions — and where teachers implement meaningful changes — are most likely to result in a positive school experience.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/56526/what-student-activists-want-teachers-to-know-about-virtual-learning-and-reopening-schools","authors":["11487"],"categories":["mindshift_21358"],"tags":["mindshift_21344","mindshift_21343","mindshift_358","mindshift_21359","mindshift_21278","mindshift_20624","mindshift_21374"],"featImg":"mindshift_56529","label":"mindshift"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. 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