Thriving In A Public School, Color Hardcover - Levie, Allen
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Thriving In A Public School is a collection of stories spanning two decades of teaching and learning at Horlick High School in Racine, Wisconsin. Those years were spent organizing students to take action in profound ways, action that changed not only the course of their lives, but the culture of their school and their communities. The basic premise of this book is that learning is a political act, that it does not take place in a vacuum but rather is part of a social construct. By engaging in activism, students developed a political understanding of the obstacles to their success and found…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Thriving In A Public School is a collection of stories spanning two decades of teaching and learning at Horlick High School in Racine, Wisconsin. Those years were spent organizing students to take action in profound ways, action that changed not only the course of their lives, but the culture of their school and their communities. The basic premise of this book is that learning is a political act, that it does not take place in a vacuum but rather is part of a social construct. By engaging in activism, students developed a political understanding of the obstacles to their success and found pathways to affect change. In this book, we see how their actions influenced political growth. This political growth had far-reaching implications on both a personal and collective level. It allowed for academic success and impacted the students' life choices and career paths. Thriving shares stories and testimonies of the author's organizing, highlighting the intersection of students and teachers in that work. By underscoring some of the major events in which the students and teachers were involved, Thriving shows how these activities provided agency for students to organize for power. You will see the progression of the students' empowerment at Horlick High School. The book illustrates how it evolved from organizing events connecting classroom learning to community concerns to the establishment of student organizations that built power and affected change. The book is a positive force, steeped in optimism and hope, propelled forward by the strength of the youth.
Autorenporträt
From working class beginnings Al Levie was a structural steel worker,machinist and union and community organizer, deciding later in life topursue a career in teaching. Al enrolled at UWM's school of educationand graduated with honors. For the next five years he worked days atthe Milwaukee House of Correction teaching inmates to get theirGED's and technical training such as asphalting and concrete andevenings at the local technical college teaching U.S. and CurrentHistory. It was at this time especially his work in the House ofCorrections which further developed his empathy and politicalunderstanding of class struggle in America.For two decades Al worked as a Social Studies, African American,Latin American and World History teacher and served as union building president, volunteerwrestling coach and student club advisor at Horlick High School in Racine, Wisconsin. Al was thefounder of Youth Empowered In the Struggle, is a leading force with Voces de La Frontera anational group spearheading operations for immigrant rights and for two years was the co-chair ofthe educational committee for the NAACP Racine Branch, an organization of which he is a lifetimemember.Al Levie has written numerous published articles and regularly featured in live interviews including"Students Galvanize for Immigrant Rights" for the publication, Rethinking Schools and "OrganizeStudents, Organize Everyone, And Fight Like Hell" interview by Maximilian Alverez, produced byThe Real News Network.Al was a recipient of The Hispanic Unsung Hero Award from the King Center, awarded by theNAACP for the work he did with African American Youth. Additionally, he received two Advisor ofthe Year Awards from Voces de La Frontera, Everyday Hero recognition from the ShepherdExpress, and a Humanitarian of the Year award from Gateway Technical College.