What Does Italian Cooking Have to Do with Strengths-Based Learning?
Students work on "Othering and Belonging" podcasts.
Stories of learning approaches that tap into students’ strengths, gifts, interests, passions, and future goals:
We need to slow down, stop this incessant, instinctive, and frenzied reaction to double down on more and more content. That is, we need to be constructivist teachers, not consumerist teachers. We need to recognize where our learners are now as whole people who actually want to learn, and recognize their assets, their strengths, gifts, interests, and passions as well as their needs for emotional support and connection. And slowly, slowly, we need to build the learning ecosystem from the foundations up; that is, we need to do it right from the beginning, or we’ll just have to do it all over again later. As adrienne maree brown says, “There is always enough time for the right work.”
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