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.
A Culture of Community Inclusion in Rural South Jersey
Using empathy, teamwork, and leadership to teach our students life lessons without using textbooks
A Sense of Community and Respect: Teaching in Rural Schools
I am so thankful to be exactly where I am
Building a Culture of Learning in Rural Schools
We aim to teach our assigned curriculum but in a way that makes sense for kids who don’t use doorbells and may have never ridden an elevator
Appreciating Teachers by Listening to Them
Many of us have come to appreciate teachers in new and more profound ways than ever before during this year of unprecedented change in public schooling
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
