#detroitfuture

[twodetroits]

Detroit has a national reputation for its spunky organizers, innovators, ingenious leaders and problem solvers. But these innovators have not been included in planning Detroit’s future.

Gloria House (source)

[twodetroits]

You May Not Know These 11 Black Millennials, But They're Reviving Detroit

Stories of Detroit's revival have continually left out the black residents working to improve the city they've called home for decades.

You May Not Know These 11 Black Millennials, But They're Reviving Detroit

[twodetroits]

Encourage our generation to stay in the city. People our age will have great ideas about how they can start a business here, but people don’t want to give resources to young black people. They want to give resources to young white people because they get the backing of bigger investors. When the older black community invests in young black people, I think it makes the brain drain much less likely to happen.

Camille Johnson (NPR)

[justmaybecome]

From Screens to Windows: Technology as Part of a Real-World Curriculum

Taking from lessons from the work of Detroit Future Schools and their Transformative Guide to Education toolkit, I've been interested in ways we can to recognize the role technology and new media can play in our ability to provide a relevant, authentic learning experience for our students.

[n8paper]

DFS Toolkit

This summer I spent a good chunk of time working with Ammerah Saidi, DFS program coordinator, on developing tools and a zine that educators could use to implement DFS Root Practices.

This is 1/2 of the results -- the 1st ever DFS toolkit! All the DFS teachers received toolkits, at the start of the year (along with a beta version of our zine as a PDF).

Its pretty amazing to walk into a classroom and have materials on the wall that reflect the work that we have been doing over the last two years. The toolkit makes it easier to access the practices DFS key elements and the root practices. I no longer have to write these by hand and stick them on the wall, when I walk in "BOOM" there they are!

I am very happy to have been apart of this project and have a hand in making it look pretty good!

Go DFS team!

Debate Rule no.2

11 ES poster

[soradfabmedia]

Twitter!!!!

Follow us on the Twitter! We are all new at it but quickly catching up!

[theheru]

My Story: An accomplished professional record producer/hip hop performing artist redirects his career path from pursuing grammys to building community and nurturing families, through sustainable entertainment art. Through his youth media literacy organization (the HERU Organization) his mission is to serve Detroit's economic and cultural renaissance through developing a new population of conscious youth media makers that will serve the establishment of a new sustainable entertainment industry in Detroit.

[karai-cakes]

the truth