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Bringing Democracy to Early Childhood Education

Rachel J. hopes to run an early childhood education program one day. She interviewed Laura Polo, a teacher at her father's headstart program in Philadelphia to learn more about how democratic values can be promoted in the classroom.

By Rachel J. from Our Democracy at The Philadelphia Writing Project's Youth Journalism Camp 2021 in Pennsylvania
Our Democracy at The Philadelphia Writing Project's Youth Journalism Camp 2021

Our Democracy PhilWP Youth Journalism Camp 2021

Teen journalists from the Greater Philadelphia area answer the question "What does democracy look like?" through multimedia journalism about their communities and photographs from their own lives.

More responses from Pennsylvania

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Humans of the Valley

I interviewed my Wellness teacher, Mr. Lezak.
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Humans of the Valley

I interviewed a teammate of mine.

Democracy and My Family

Kethan is a high school student in Philadelphia. His family immigrated to the United States from India. He tells their family story through photos.
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Humans of the Valley

When prompted to do a "Humans of New York" style interview of someone from the Penn-York valley region of the Twin Tiers, I went to interview Rebecca "Becky" Williams, long-time employee of the Athens Library and citizen of the Valley.
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Humans of the valley

For the humans of the valley project our assigment was to inteview someone. We recorded there interview and put it on a google slide along with a picture of that person.
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Symbols of Democracy

This shows democracy because we have the freedom to engage in sports that aren't controlled by a government agency. There are rules but we are free to play a good old fashion football game. It also shows people can support in their own way.
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Symbols of Democracy

This is a picture taken out of an airplane over lower central New York.
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Symbols of Democracy

This photo represents the choices the people of the US can make to make their country better for themselves. Having this choice means your voice means something and you have power in the form of voting in a democracy.
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Humans of the Valley

I interviewed my neighbor and asked her what she is most afraid of right now.
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Humans of the Valley

I interviewed my aunt over the phone.
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Humans of the valley

I'm doing this for school. :)
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Humans of the Valley

This is a school project.

More responses about "community", " democracy", " education", " equality", and "social justice"

Surprise Me
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Humans of sophomore honors: Grace N

This document is my Humans of sophomore English interview, with Grace Nelson. I asked her about family school and how they have affected her at a young age.
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Our Democracy

I found a notebook that represented Democracy, I wrote how it represented it and what it means to me.
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Our Democracy

In this post, I express what democracy means to me. Democracy is who we are and allows us to have many rights we didn't have before. Democracy allows different forms of freedom, power, and equality.
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Symbols of Democracy

This photo is of a bald eagle nest with a farm in the background. The eagle represents the freedom that we experience through democracy and the farm in the photo represents the American Dream that is only possible through democracy.
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Our Democracy

Our Democracy is shaped by the citizens of our community and gives people the power for their voice to be heard.
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Humans of Sophomore Honors: Grace Allen

My interview with Grace Allen was short and intriguing. I got to learn what she would change in her life, and how she wants to be remembered.
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Humans of Sophmore Honors: Samantha Sweet

For our "Humans of Sophomore Honors" interview project, I interviewed Samantha Sweet. I found that she had a deep passion for animals, engraved in her since the beginning of her life.
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Our Democracy

This post is about what democracy means to me. This photo represents democracy, how each state comes together to make a final decision and how we are the people who give the flag meaning.
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Masks (Still) Hang in Our Hallway

Thinking about the changing symbolic meaning of masks over the course of the pandemic
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Our Democracy

Our soccer team shows democracy, the coming together of a group of people, all equal, one team, with different backgrounds, different opinions, different education, yet one community.
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What democracy means to me

To me Democracy means a way of government where the citizens get to pick the people that get to rule over them and have a say in what happens with their society and laws.
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Democracy

This image symbolizes democracy because by someone raising their hand proves freedom of speech in our country. People have the right to say whatever they want to say without being persecuted for speaking your piece.
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Democracy

The Horses represent democracy by the way they work together to come up with ideas and decide what to do. The horses converse in some way before coming to an agreement.
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Our Democracy

Should costumes be allowed in school? Who should be allowed to make that decision?
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Our Democracy

I found a notebook that represented Democracy, I wrote how it represented it and what it means to me.
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Our Democracy

Should costumes be allowed in school? Who should be allowed to make that decision?
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Django Everta

This is my post for the "Our Democracy" assignment for my 1st period Sophomore Honors class.
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Our Democracy

A simple tree can represent our democracy in many ways. It symbolizes growth, the people, and our elected officials. Our democracy is a pivotal part of our culture and there is many ways to represent it.

From Common to Uncommon

For my Passion Project with the Morehead Writing Project, I decided to focus on the heart-breaking reality of child abuse. Wanting to make change for the future of my community, I reached out to my peers and told the unforgiving truth behind abuse.
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Our Democracy

To me, democracy means that everyone is equal and has the same amount of power. In this post, I showed how my picture represents democracy.
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what is a democracy

I believe that a democracy is any group that can influence the balance of its state and the hearts of the people.
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Humans of Sophomore Honors English: Kaitlin Giacone

In an interview I had with Kaitlin Giacone, you get to know about her inspiring story of how she wants to help change an issue she is passionate about. She explains a past issue of hers, and how she is planning on preventing others going through it.
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Our Democracy

I express my learning about democracy through soccer and how I now have many real world skills due to that environment.
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Our Democracy

In this post, I express what democracy means to me. Democracy is who we are and allows us to have many rights we didn't have before. Democracy allows different forms of freedom, power, and equality.

Our Democracy

The Our Democracy Education Project is a partnership with the National Writing Project and PhotoWings. PhotoWings' mission is to help photography to be better understood, created, utilized, seen, and saved. The project is also supported by the National Geographic Society and Catchlight, and explores the question, “What does democracy look like?” through the creation of a multimedia record of the state of local, everyday democracy today.