Uploaded by Agenda for Children Out-Of-School-Time on 2018-04-13.
“In September of 2017, I was hired by the city of Cambridge to highlight best practices in culturally proficient family engagement in the form of a digital storytelling portfolio. The city’s “Agenda for Children,” is responsible for providing professional development services for educators. The digital storytelling portfolio that I’m creating falls under the umbrella of the “Agenda for Children,” and is intended to support the Agenda’s workshops, training and general professional development efforts. I conducted all storyboarding, interviewing, filming and editing for the videos and audio stories shared on this page.”
----This is a screenshot from the Agenda for Children website, where we published the audio story featured to the left. The framing questions that accompany the audio story are intended to help Cambridge educators use this content in training and workshops---
Joseph Corbie, director of the Fletcher-Maynard community school in Cambridge, Ma shares about his experience empathizing with parents. Empathy, he explains, is the corner stone of making parents feel welcome and is key to overcoming challenges related to family disengagement: "I try to come from a place of encouragement, whether that person was there yesterday, was there from day one with this child or just got there.
Youth enrolled at the Gately Youth Center in Cambridge, MA share about the importance of their relationships with staff at Gately. We learn that these relationships play a meaningful role in a young person's journey of self discovery.