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.

Creating a Sense of Belonging Amongst Our Earliest Learners

We don’t have to do it all alone

Normalizing Struggle, Building Resilience

The goal is to feel the way your students feel when they’re doing the work you’re asking of them

How to Build Community with Families

We can open up the possibility to connect with families in real, lasting ways

4 Ways to Create a Community with Families

The culture of community in schools can be the difference between success and failure for many students

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