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Inside Detroit Future Schools: Creating Intergenerational Relationships
This is the first part in a series of blog posts that will highlight lessons emerging from Detroit Future Schools. Our goal is to make our work to humanize schooling in Detroit "open-source" and accessible to other educators. Below, Ammerah Saidi, DFS Program Director, reflects on the process of creating intergenerational relationships between students and adults.
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Detroit Future Schools is an in-school digital media arts program committed to humanizing schooling in Detroit and beyond. We work in a small number of anchor schools where we develop and evaluate core instructional practices. We then share our best practices through the DFS Network, a local and national network of teachers, artists and community members.
AMC2014 tracks and practice spaces release calls for session proposals
The coordinators of Allied Media Conference tracks and practice spaces are seeking your session proposals. From "Future Design" to "Abundant Bodies," read about what kinds of sessions this year's tracks and practice spaces are looking for, and then submit your proposal!
Announcing the Tracks, Practice Spaces, and Network Gatherings of AMC2014
The Allied Media Conference is a collaborative laboratory of media-based organizing strategies for transforming our world, held every Summer in Detroit.
Check out the participant-designed tracks, practice spaces, and network gatherings of what will be the most engaging, diverse, fun and magical AMC ever!
LISTEN | Detroit Future Schools on Michigan Radio: "Making school more human"
Michigan Radio recently broadcast an excellent radio story on how Detroit Future Schools is making school more human. This piece provides a peek into how DFS is integrating media, technology, and art into core subject matter, from social studies to math, while supporting students in developing positive social values and characteristics.