I’m in search of what’s working to help kids engage and succeed, especially what’s helping kids from poor rural or urban areas. Many schools and community-based programs have had significant success. I want to know why! Talk to me.
If you have a story to tell, I want to interview you.
If you work in a school system, I want to hear what’s happening at the system level, the administrative level, in the classroom and after school that is consistently moving at risk kids forward. If you know someone who should be interviewed, please have them contact me or let me know how to contact them.
If you work in the community, I want to know how your community is helping to deliver the kinds of successes you’ve had.
If you are one of those kids–one that grew up in rural or urban poverty and are now “out from under the system” and successfully making your own way, I want to hear your story. What was the turning point? What happened that changed your future for the better? How were you supported? What recommendations do you have to make?
In case it matters, I want to let you know my intention with these interviews. There is a lot of research on the achievement gap and what the problems are that we need to address. I haven’t found a lot of research on those kids who are succeeding–despite poverty and the other factors identified by deficit-based research.
I think it will be valuable to identify what is working and what makes the difference for those kids who do succeed. I hope to use my research to help expand options for communities, inform practice, and inspire possibility. I will blog about it in hopes of spreading the information as rapidly as possible.
Contact me: cheri.torres@collabydesign.com
