{"id":186,"date":"2020-10-19T11:31:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T15:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/?page_id=186"},"modified":"2020-12-18T11:14:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T16:14:41","slug":"organizing-strategies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/organizing-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizing Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paulo Freire&#8217;s Work as an Organizing Strategy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Freire\u2019s banking method \u201cdescribes an oppressive process that positions teachers as the \u201cdepositors\u201d of knowledge into passive student \u2018receptacles\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead of giving students information that they must regurgitate on command through a test, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Change the Stakes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> argues that schools can use portfolios to measure a students growth or a performance based assessment\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These performance based assessments are currently being used in a number of New York Public Schools<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Political Education as an Organizing Strategy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Political education involves educating people on social justice issues so they are able to make an educated and informed decision about what is right for their family.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They have organized and mobilized by spreading information and encouraging parents to opt their children out<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If they didn&#8217;t use political education as a strategy, many would not know the harm that standardized tests can cause their children, especially because many of the parents that this organization accommodates are minority parents, whose first language may not be English.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>Change the Stakes<\/em> employs this strategy by giving parents multilingual resources and educating them on their representatives in the government<\/li>\n<li>They also <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">organized against the nomination of Betsy DeVos: the Secretary of Education<\/span><\/li>\n<li>DeVos <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">supports a more privatized education agenda, something that would encourage more testing<\/span><\/li>\n<li>On the website,\u00a0<em>Change the Stakes <\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">dedicated a page to giving resources against the DeVos nomination. Their goal was to show parents that their public school systems would be negatively affected by DeVos and her policies and why it was crucial that they lobby against her.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even though she was elected, the organization was still able to educate people about who she is and what she stands for.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paulo Freire&#8217;s Work as an Organizing Strategy Freire\u2019s banking method \u201cdescribes an oppressive process that positions teachers as the \u201cdepositors\u201d of knowledge into passive student \u2018receptacles\u2019\u201d Instead of giving students information that they must regurgitate on command through a test, Change the Stakes argues that schools can use portfolios to measure a students growth or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-186","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}