Project-Based Learning to Increase Motivation for Students...and Teachers with Cara Pekarcik

11/06/19 • 34 min

Cara Pekarcik is a high school science teacher at North Quincy High School. Cara is the 2018 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year and is currently serving as a WGBH Educator Ambassador. In this podcast, Cara shares her passion for learning on a personal level and how this passion influences her teaching practice. Connect with Cara on Twitter @MsPekarcik and read about her Antarctic adventures at https://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/southern-ocean-diatoms.

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Confronting Bias in Schools with Randyl Wilkerson and Alison Mann

Randyl Wilkerson is in her 7th year as a 6th grade Reading and Writing teacher at Gardner Pilot Academy. She is in her 3rd year leading Anti-Racist Initiative at her school and providing teachers professional development on combatting bias. Randyl has also worked as a consultant for The Teacher Collaborative and other education organizations in Boston. Hailing from Chicago and growing up in a tracked public school system, Randyl is committed to working on programming in the educational field that promotes an equitable space for all stakeholders of a school community.

Alison Mann is an early childhood teacher and has been serving students and families at Gardner Pilot Academy (GPA), in the Boston Public School district, for over a decade. She has served as a teacher leader at GPA for 8 years. Together with her colleague, Randyl Wilkerson, she is leading teaching staff, families, and students, in anti-racist work.

Teaching Tolerance article:

https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/fall-2019/a-h opeful-case-of-teacher-leadership-and-confronting -bias-in-education
Boston Public Schools