This article introduces the Critical Response Protocol (CRP), an arts-based technique that engages students in equitable critical discourse and aligns with the "Next Generation Science Standards" vision for providing students opportunities for language learning while advancing science learning (NGSS Lead States 2013). CRP helps teachers…

This book embraces the idea of listening to and learning from students. Although many educational theorists have long argued that incorporating children's perspectives about teaching and curriculum has the potential for increasing students' interest and participation in learning, their radical perspectives are still ignored or dismissed in theory…

The author describes one of the first activities that his ninth grade Applied Technology class complete each semester. This activity calls for developing a "Wanted Poster" featuring an inventor/technologist. He adapted the activity from one that he saw on a science-related site on the World Wide Web. The Wanted Poster activity gives students an…