Luisa Bieri, a Cooperative Education faculty member, performed and presented at the Inaugural Conference on Community Theater for Social Justice Action on April 27-28, 2018. The event was organized by a group of young POC activists who transformed their campus activism in South Bend, Indiana into
Brooke Bryan has been widely recognized for her work in Oral History pedagogy. Among her many titles, her role as the Co-Director of the Oral History in the Liberal Arts initiative (https://ohla.info/) has led to the development of many accessible tools and resources in oral history and digital storytelling. Brooke's program was
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Students in Beth Bridgeman's Global Seminar spent spring of 2017 learning about biochar, wildcrafting, beekeeping, goatmilking, regenerative agriculture, horsedrawn plowing, culture and the power of food memories, culminating in an all day cooking session and feast. [gallery ids="9944,9945,9946,9947,9948,9949,9950,9951,9952,9953,9954"]
[caption id="attachment_9825" align="alignnone" width="300"] The downstairs lobby.[/caption] For the winter 2018 quarter (and my second co-op), I joined the staff of Swyft, Inc., a business to business (B2B) startup that focuses on making high-end automated retail machines. Within my role as an (neutral) intern, I was not specifically
For the past three months I have worked for International Media Action (I.M.A.), a non-profit based out of Philadelphia. I.M.A.'s primary focus is to build communications infrastructure for small community groups around the world. Their engineer who does this work is Antioch alumnus Pete Tridish.
I knew only two things upon entering my second co-op: I wanted to focus on creating art, and I wanted to be somewhere unknown to me. I hadn't had the time, energy, nor focus to actively pursue my own creative development during academic quarters, so
Newtowne school is a Reggio Emilia inspired parent cooperative preschool in Cambridge, MA. Reggio Emilia is a philosophy that originated in post war Italy, and quickly spread around the world. Reggio is based in the idea that children learn best through discovery and pursuing their interests.
The Youth Theater Project is an after school program that brings the youth of San Francisco together to create their own one act plays
What do we value most in education today? What does it mean to be smart? A lot of children might respond that what's important are the answers. They might suggest that knowledge, fundamentally, is simply knowing the answer to a problem. In education, our focus
