Advice from the Inside Out: What Justice Engaged Youth Want Their Social Studies Teacher to Know
Advice from the Inside Out: What Justice Engaged Youth Want Their Social Studies Teacher to Know
Justice engaged youth face a multitude of barriers when trying to re enter their schools and classrooms after being incarcerated. Social Studies teachers and their classrooms are uniquely situated to help prevent justice engaged youth from going back to jail. This talk addresses how social studies teachers can become trusted and positive youth influences to these students. In addition, teaching hard histories and valuing lived experiences through storytelling can change the lives of justice engaged youth forever. It connects them to their past, grounds them in their present and allows them to dream of their futures. In this talk, we get advice from kids in jail as to what would have worked for them to stay in school.