Change Starts With Youth

This week I started my fieldwork at a middle school in Stockton. There is a requirement for my education program at University of the Pacific that I must put in so many hours observing a classroom, and this semester I will eventually have to record my own lesson. I did something similar to this last semester, but it was for English CP 12 at a high school. Very different settings. I chose to observe a middle school classroom because I have decided last semester that I want that to be my focus when I get my credential. Working with my team of middle schoolers at Changeist, I have decided THIS is my age group to work with.  My Cooperating Teacher (CT) is in her mid-twenties. She is spunky, has a bunch of strings of lights hanging around her classroom, and there are a lot of posters on the walls- some to help her students with their writing, and others that are political and low-key callout the education system. On the second day I was in her class, a student said that they lef...