AMP Blog: 11 Essential Traits

Detroit Future Schools is excited to be partnered with four schools that we are identifying as our Anchor Schools. One school is the James and Grace Lee Boggs School which opened its colorful doors to students this year.

3 new features of Detroit Future Schools for the 2013-2014 school year

Detroit Future Schools is going into its third year of programming and we could not be more excited! We have learned so much from the past two years of integrating digital media arts into Detroit schools and providing year-long teacher professional development in more than 24 schools across the city.
Patrick Butler's drama class at Western International High School

DFS Classroom Visit: Using Drama to Build Critical Consciousness

One of Detroit Future Schools' 11 Essential Traits of Mind, Habit and Character is "critical consciousness." We define critical consciousness as a process of "questioning established systems, practices, hierarchies, processes and histories, both macro and micro."