The kids and heroes were terrific (clips to follow). We interviewed 2 wonderfully inspiration young people who grew up close to Orchard Gardens and attended Boston Public Schools for part of their childhood. Marzuq Muhammad (I learned about him through this article)
http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2010/07/10/a_lesson_they_learned/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Latest+news
and Michelle Albert (learned about her through Marzuq, she is the principal of an all girls middle school)
http://www.mcaec.org/videos/MCAEC2008Video_player.swf
Both are young and successful men and women who grew up facing some of the similar opportunities and challenges that the kids from Orchard Gardens faced, worked extremely hard, realized how important education was, attended great colleges, and now have great jobs.......and both today realize the importance of helping kids learn the value of a great education and helping them to succeed in school.
I learned a ton last week both watching and listening to the kids in our class as well as the heroes.
Last week the kids prepared for their hero guests and it showed as each of them asked excellent questions such as:
1) why was school important to you?
2) what do you think about the violence in Roxbury and surrounding cities and what would you do about it?
3) what would you do if you were the President or Secretary of Education for a day to help kids in school?
4) Do you like your job as principal (to Michelle) or would you rather be a teacher?
5) Did things always go well for you in school (did you ever have a detention, suspended from school)?
6) Do you regret anything?
These were just some of the great questions. We videotaped the kids and the interview and next week we will study the tape to reinforce our learnings about heroism and our performances as "heroe journalists."
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