CultureFeed is a place for educators to explore the challenges and rewards of shaping their students’ character.
CultureFeed honors educators’ commitment to a better world by providing research, fresh ideas, classroom success stories, and interviews with educators and other thought leaders.
“Discover Your Soul Language”: The Impact of Exposure, Experience, and Engagement through Music and the Arts
Dr. Toney McNair, Virginia Teacher of the Year 2017, encourages us to examine the language of our own souls through exposure, experience, and engagement with the Arts.
Preparing Our Next Generation of Citizens Through STEM Education
Tehmina Khan shares her vision of how learning STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) better prepares students for global citizenship and career readiness.
Designing Our Teaching for Wonder
Music instructor and 2017 Wisconsin State Teacher of the Year, Chris Gleason, shares thoughts on designing teaching to encourage wonder and curiosity.
I Am Preparing Students for Jobs That Do Not Yet Exist!
Heather DeLuca Nestor talks about watching students bloom with exposure to STEM activities.
Sociologist David Sikkink on Character Formation at Alternative-Pedagogy Schools
In this full-length interview, sociologist David Sikkink discusses six unconventional high schools: a Friends school, a Montessori school, a Waldorf school, an IB school, a New Tech school, and a Democratic school. We talk about:
• The surprising amount of autonomy—and even authority—given to students in these settings
• How students in alternative-pedagogy schools engage with their communities
• Why many of these schools are strongly critical of popular culture
Sociologist Jeffrey Dill on Character Formation in Homeschooling Families
In this full-length interview, sociologist Jeffrey Dill addresses issues like these:
• The broad diversity that exists among homeschoolers, from religious beliefs to motivations for choosing this lifestyle
• What it means to understand homeschooling as an “oppositional culture”
• How homeschoolers use employment and technology to augment student experiences
