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National School Walkout: Mass Student Protests Against Gun Violence Across the U.S.
Two of mine are in this pic.
Walkout1.jpg
The "other Jesse," a popular, liberal, gay, humanities professor is speaking here.
Walkout1.jpg
I teach math, but always carve out a couple of "special topics" days, which I generally fill with, surprise, surprise, more math. But, in the grand tradition of standing behind one's students, I chose to facilitate the walk-out this morning, and then invited my students in both of my morning classes to join me in participating in student discussions, afterwards.
And then realized I know nothing about leading discussions, so I approached the other Jesse for help. I don't do discussions in my classes, because I'm a math guy, and we just don't.
It turns out the other Jesse was already planning to host student discussions, and his classes just so happened to coincide with mine. So our combined sections filled his lecture hall. My contribution was to interrupt to provide speaking space for students with outstretched hands, who were too polite to simply speak up while others were filling the space.
The discussions were optional for my students, but required for his, as he had incorporated them into this semester's curricula in response to the school shootings in Parkland, thirty miles up the road from us. We have students who knew those students.
I'm ready to talk now.
National School Walkout: Mass Student Protests Against Gun Violence Across the U.S.
Two of mine are in this pic.
Walkout1.jpg
The "other Jesse," a popular, liberal, gay, humanities professor is speaking here.
Walkout1.jpg
I teach math, but always carve out a couple of "special topics" days, which I generally fill with, surprise, surprise, more math. But, in the grand tradition of standing behind one's students, I chose to facilitate the walk-out this morning, and then invited my students in both of my morning classes to join me in participating in student discussions, afterwards.
And then realized I know nothing about leading discussions, so I approached the other Jesse for help. I don't do discussions in my classes, because I'm a math guy, and we just don't.
It turns out the other Jesse was already planning to host student discussions, and his classes just so happened to coincide with mine. So our combined sections filled his lecture hall. My contribution was to interrupt to provide speaking space for students with outstretched hands, who were too polite to simply speak up while others were filling the space.
The discussions were optional for my students, but required for his, as he had incorporated them into this semester's curricula in response to the school shootings in Parkland, thirty miles up the road from us. We have students who knew those students.
I'm ready to talk now.
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