Banning the Backboard with Graham Lowes

Did you know that the Canadian Museum for Human Rights has an educator-in-residence? I didn’t! But they do – his name is Graham Lowes, and I talked with him about how the world sucks, moving away from essays and towards project-based learning and inquiry projects, banning the backboard, the Upstander Project, engaging learners by building a jail cell, effective vs. ineffective teachers of human rights, Paulo Friere, what we remember from high school, starting with stories, awareness as the first step, moving forward when we admit that these problems might not be solved, and how to move action past just awareness (if you can).