Category Archives: Design for Change
Thoughts on the SHARE Stage
What did your Change Makers reflect on and learn from this experience? In reflecting back on their experience, our students affirmed the val [...]
Thoughts on the DO Stage
Describe your action plan. One action that all of the students took was the creation of public service announcements related to their topics [...]
Thoughts on the IMAGINE Stage
List the different solutions you came up with: One of the unique features of the Choosing to participate project is that it supports multipl [...]
Thoughts on the FEEL Stage
List the situations/problems in your school/community that bothered you. Each of our groups, explored an issue that resonated for them. Belo [...]
We are More than Just an Image- Share
I learned to be aware of this issue and if I see an ad on the street or in a magazine. I learned to notice the hidden messages in ads. I als [...]
Healthier New York – Imagine
Some of the ideas we had to solve the problem of food deserts was to buy healthy food at a supermarket. What that does is when you buy an it [...]
Design For Change: DO (Don’t Waste Your Waste: Create)
My group and I did a lot of hands on work where we helped clean up our community. We all live in this one world- there’s no such thing [...]
Children in Poverty: FEEL STAGE
The main problem that our group focused on was Children in Poverty. We chose this because many people are unaware of how big of a problem po [...]
Feel Stage
First we familiarized ourselves with propny (Police Reform Organizing Project). They were able to help us by bringing us to go court monitor [...]
Design for Change – Imagine – Don’t Waste Your Waste : Create
Imagine We had many extreme ideas that we felt if executed correctly could solve our issues with climate change and general pollution in the [...]
Share: Social Justice 2016
As a result of my experience as a change maker, I learned that children can do most of whatever they put their minds to, and that the smalle [...]
Share – Stage
What have you learned as a result of this experience of being a change maker? I have learned by being a change maker is helping other people [...]
Change Climate Change Feel
Throughout our project we hoped to learn what we could do to help the climate and how we can prevent climate change. We chose this problem b [...]
Education Inequity DO Stage
As a group we worked with about 10 different organization all taking different parts in solving education inequality. Our fieldwork stretche [...]
Gun Violence Prevention Imagine Stage
One idea that we had to address this epidemic of gun violence was to work with existing groups that already had ideas, and elaborate [...]
Imagine
We wanted to help public schools get funded and we wanted to raise awareness about underfunding. We thought that one of the best ways we cou [...]
Educational Inequity Feel Stage
The main issue that we were trying to understand and address was educational inequity in New York schools. We chose this topic because we kn [...]
Canstructing a Solution to Hunger: DO
As part of the DO stage our group visited many different food pantries and soup kitchens. One of the most interesting things we did was volu [...]
“Do” Reflection
In the “Do” stage, my group and I scheduled a fieldwork with a non-profit organization called Dress For Success. This organizati [...]
DO Reflection
Not including our Teach-In Workshop, we had an impact on a company which we visited. The company is called MMC, Marina Maher Communications. [...]
Feel Reflection
Throughout this social justice project we hoped that people would understand the discrimination of women in the workforce. We hoped that we [...]
SHARE (Change Climate Change)
After going on fieldworks for the DO stage, we needed to share our work to inspire others. We learned that if you feel that something is wro [...]
Social Justice: The Feel Stage
The main problem we wanted to resolve and gain a larger understanding around was freedom of speech in foreign countries. Since we are curren [...]
More Than Just The Image: FEEL
The main problem we wanted to understand and address was how the media affects young girl, their mindset, and body image. We are all young w [...]
Do
In the do stage we went on many fieldwork to learn what it felt like to take action. We contacted organizations such as the beyond coal Camp [...]
Share
This project has enlightened me on how our education system is not working well. I have learned that in order to fix this we will nee [...]
Imagine Stage
In the imagine stage, my group and I read the book Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg, the former CFO of Google, and the current CFO of Facebook. Th [...]
Women in the workplace Social justice Review
After we conducted interviews and went on many field works, my group was ready to share what we learned and found out about the discriminati [...]
Imagine
Volunteering at your local food pantry or soup kitchen is a great way to get involved in the issue of poverty. If you are interested in doin [...]
Children In Poverty: Share
After the feel, image, and do stage my group felt that we were strongly educated on our topic and thought that we could make a change. To ed [...]
Imagine
As the Climate Change group We thought that we could attend conferences and rallies to help spread awareness to people with political power [...]
Imagine
We had many ideas and brainstorm sessions that contributed to our project. Some ideas included contacting organizations that would allow us [...]
Do and Share
Obviously the social justice teach-in enabled all of us to put our knowledge out into the school and teach others about our topic. But [...]
Canstructing a Solution to Hunger: Imagine
During this project, we wanted to address our topic, (hunger) in the most effective way possible. One of the ideas that we had in addressin [...]
Police Brutality Do Stage
We interview the head of the Police Reform Organizing Projecr, Robert Gangi. It started as four boys interviewing an educated activist and h [...]
Police Brutality Share Stage
I have learned that it doesn’t take a lot of people to make a big change. As long as you are committed and willing, anyone can make a [...]
