Aislinn EvansPlumbing the Prison PipelineFor kids living in a high stress environment at home, school becomes their escape. It is a place where they are able to focus on learning…Dec 1, 2015Dec 1, 2015
Aislinn EvansOpening Boundaries for Discussion“Art is a discourse; it is not only entertainment and it is not only fluff and it is not the thing one does when one doesn’t have anything…Oct 22, 2015Oct 22, 2015
Aislinn EvansThe Pursuit of LearningQuite often, immigrants become degraded and marginalized in their abilities based on the stereotypes that have greatly preceded them. In…Oct 10, 2015Oct 10, 2015
Aislinn EvansTo those who see my devotion to dance as a juvenile waste:I have grown more as a person through my experiences as a dancer than in all my years of public schooling. I have learned how to connect to…Oct 8, 2015Oct 8, 2015
Aislinn EvansActions speak louder than wordsIn Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States,” he calls the people of our democratic society to take action in our democratic…Oct 8, 2015Oct 8, 2015
Aislinn EvansLearning is done most effectively in an environment where the students are actually experiencing…Education in today’s schools can easily be simmered down to the basic skills of reading, writing, and fact memorization. If a student can…Sep 17, 2015Sep 17, 2015
Aislinn EvansDemocratic LearningI find the connection to an ideal school system and a democratic society very interesting. An effective school should teach kids how to…Sep 10, 2015Sep 10, 2015
Aislinn EvansThe Methods of TeachingSchool teaches you more than what’s in the textbooks or outlined by the curriculum. It teaches you different ways of thinking, of looking…Sep 3, 2015Sep 3, 2015