schoolife (#1)

i'm starting to work on a radio documentary with minkyu kim.  our idea is to document the real lives of teachers and students.  too often, we speak about education in ways that don't reflect real people: real teachers, real students, and real families.  too often, we have policy discussions that disembody our real beliefs, concerns, and hopes.

i don't know how the process is going to go exactly, but i'm going to try and chronicle our process on the blog.  i know that i'd enjoy following the process from the ground up, so we'll see how it goes! (who knows? maybe i can use it in my teaching, too?)

our basic idea is to follow 1-2 middle school teacher and 3-5 middle school students for a full school year.  we'll have lavalier mics on the students and teachers, and we'll have a field recorder to pick up sound inside the classrooms.

our goal is to show more full context.  it won't be possible to show entire days, but we want to avoid cutting up moments and lives too far.  we want to find full, larger moments that can tell a story more like a novel.  that develop characters in longer moments over time.