"I’ve spent my professional life as a teacher and as an advocate for fairness and equality in our laws and democratic systems," says Betsy Smith, "and RQI has such meaningful contributions to make on both of these fronts."
Teaching + Learning
Betsy Smith brings more than 30 years of experience as a nonprofit director and educator and will take over executive leadership from Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana, who will remain at RQI as co-directors of the institute’s Democracy-Building Program.
Our April newsletter includes a lesson idea from a calculus teacher and a new video that features LA students asking questions about an 1899 editorial cartoon.
In our March newsletter: Opportunities to learn with Harvard and National Geographic, "innovative practices for systems transformation," and a conversation with parents about voting.
In February's newsletter we share resources for Black History Month and share a story about working with adult learner around the issue of voting.
In January's newsletter, a kindergarten teacher in Georgia discusses how to use the Question Formulation Technique with young learners, and we explore some resources for teaching difficult current events.