Focusing On Neighborhood Assets — One Of My Favorite Lessons!
We’re in the middle of one of my favorite units — where we focus on our neighborhood’s assets instead of its deficits.
I explain it more in detail at A Lesson Highlighting Community Assets — Not Deficits, and have a complete lesson plan, including hand-outs, in my book on Helping Students Motivate Themselves. In short, students compare our lower-income school neighborhood with the Fabulous Forties, commonly considered the most wealthy area of Sacramento, and they decide which neighborhood is the better one. Typically, about 95% of my students choose our neighborhood (though this year the percentage was a little lower — about 80$ choose the school neighborhood.
Today, students completed a response to the question “Which neighborhood was better?” using the “ABC”