Turn it Around

Posted by NALIP on June 13, 2014

 

Project Synopsis:

Turn It Around tells the stories of Joe, Deprece and Sergio as they go from city streets into school classrooms as educators.  They enroll in an ambitious experiment in public education, California’s “Grow Your Own Teachers” program, called the California Teacher Pathway.  

Grow Your Own Teachers programs are a new and powerful kind of alternative teacher training that combat the high rates of student disengagement and the low-retention rates of urban public schools teachers.  Grow Your Own Teachers programs act as pipelines for getting well-trained adults of color into urban schools as quality educators, enabling community members with the cultural competencies and street cred needed to connect with youth and step into schools, doing something outsider teachers have proved incapable of doing: they stay. At the LPA 2013 we created and mobile app as part of the New Media track. Ride High is a mobile app consisting of a series of video episodes that share and connect personal turnkey moments in the lives of people of color, that enable them to see how they are uniquely qualified to be effective teachers.