How Fifth-Grade Students Became Citizen Activists | Episode 44

Back when Brian Schultz was a 5th-grade teacher in a struggling urban school, he asked his students to name some issues they could address through a class project. But when his students decided that they really needed was a whole new school building, no one could have predicted how the project would have unfolded from there. But their efforts soon attracted national media attention and, eventually, even inspired a book called Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way, which now in its 2nd edition. Brian Schultz is now a Miami University professor of teacher education, and today he’s here to talk about this incredible project, the new edition of his book, the lasting impact it’s had on some of this students, and more.