Empowering Students to Find their Voice with Dennis Mihalsky

Production team:

Host : Maria Xenidou

Producer: Julie-Roxane Krikorian

Introduction Voice: David Bourne

Contact us:

[email protected]

Music credits:

Like Lee performed by The Mini Vandals

Transition sounds: Swamp Walks performed by Jingle Punks

Where to find Dennis Mihalsky:

Linkedin

Students Disrupting - the website

Donate to Students Disrupting

Reach out to Dennis if you know anyone that might benefit or if you have any thoughts or feedback

Mentioned in this episode:

Pace University

Gale Brewer - Manhattan Borough President

 

Listen to this episode and explore:

Dennis’ childhood and high school years: being actively involved in the community (2:53)

Studying communication and media at Pace University, NYC (6:13)

Deciding to become a teacher (11:30)

From public relations to teaching: communication skills and outside the box thinking (13:03)

Students Disrupting: the origin story (17:02)

How to start a high school newspaper: from idea to the first issue (20:46)

The skills students are developing (24:42)

Integrating the newspaper into the English class curriculum (29:01)

Why Dennis’ students care more for their work than their grades (31:27)

Expanding the student newspapers initiative to other schools in NYC (34:02)

The resistance behind having a student-run newspaper (40:28)

How Students Disrupting guides and support schools to start their own newspaper (43:12)

What surprised Dennis the most on his journey so far (48:28)

How we can support Students Disrupting (55:37)

The impact Dennis wants to have during his lifetime (57:49)