Giving students public roles transforms how adults see them in the community.

Evidence

Before I was involved as a facilitator for the Community Gathering, I would walk down the street and adults looked at me like I was some trouble-causing kid. Now when I walk down the street, adults that I didn’t know before say hi to me, stop me to tell me what a great job I did and talk to me about the conversations of that weekend. — David Sobel, Place-Based Education, 50

Categorization

• CANDY: A short humanizing story of a student facilitator gaining community respect.
• XREF: connects to: Authentic community audiences can evaluate student work as real professional stakeholders — David Sobel, Place-Based Education: Connecting…, 114; Genuine civic participation can transform how a community perceives its young people; Facilitating a community event can transform a young person’s standing within their town. (+2 more)

Related

• Civic participation transforms how adults perceive and treat local youth. (similarity 0.92)
• Facilitating a community event can transform a young person’s standing within their town. (similarity 0.91)
• Genuine civic participation can transform how a community perceives its young people (similarity 0.90)

Broader Connections

• Social systems can enable change, and new roles redefine group stereotypes #expands (0.85) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 226