PEN The Journal of the Progressive Education Network Summer 2022

EDUCATION MUST...

amplify students’ voice, agency, conscience, and intellect to create a more equitable, just, and sustainable world.

EDUCATION MUST...

encourage the active participation of students in their learning, in their communities, and in the world.

EDUCATION MUST...

respond to the developmental needs of students, and focus on their social, emotional, intellectual, cognitive, cultural, and physical development.

EDUCATION MUST...

honor and nurture students’ natural curiosity and innate desire to learn, fostering internal motivation and the discovery of passion and purpose.

EDUCATION MUST...

emerge from the interests, experiences, goals, and needs of diverse constituents, fostering empathy, communication and collaboration across difference.

EDUCATION MUST...

foster respectfully collaborative and critical relationships between students, educators, parents/guardians, and the community.

IN THIS ISSUE

Greetings from PEN

Why Every 8th Grade Class Should Go to Alabama 3

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ProgEdNet@Distance: NEW PEN 10

Announcing the Next Cohort of NEW PEN 14 Lessons the Pandemic Can Teach Us About Homework 15

Student Teaching Experience

“Oh, You’ll Learn”

Our Zoom Clubhouse is Open!

Caring in the Age of Coronavirus

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Support PEN 26

Meet Your Journal Committee Members 27

Submissions for Future Issues 28

ON OUR COVER: Images from Prairie Creek Community School in Northfield, MN.

Images on pages 3, 10, 19 and 20 are from Prairie Creek Community School. Images from page 11, 12 and 13 are from Wickliffe Progressive Elementary School in Columbus, OH.

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