What students are saying:

“Why can't geography class feel like a community? All it took was my teacher allocating 5 minutes a day to have students going into randomly selected groups of three to work on a quick task for me to have known and connected with everyone in the classroom. So why is it so hard for other classes to do the same? With the ever-increasing rise of phone use, it is understandable people will be anti-social, so I advocate that teachers not just do ‘the geography thing’ but value turning their class into a community where people KNOW each other.”
— High School Student

“I think teachers can help us with critical thinking and problem solving by helping us work around things. I also think teachers can help us by giving us real life problems and having us work around the problem and solving the problem.”
— Elementary School Student

”I have found that many teachers, because of how much they advocate for a quiet classroom, have really impaired many students' collaboration skills. They make sure we don't talk to each other, and then are surprised that no one talks to each other when there is group work once every three months.”
— High School Student

”We need a chance to learn leadership. We don't really get a say in what we do in school, we just have to listen to the responsible adults.”
— Elementary School Student

“Creativity is downgraded to a non-transferable skill, when creativity is actually what the world stands on. Someone thought and imagined everything that we stand on.”
— High School Student

“We should design more things like solving 1 of the United Nations sustainable goals. We can do more things like how to save earth from pollution.”
— Elementary School Student