Adrienne Barberg
Education, Culture, and Society, M.S.Ed.
Community Action and Social Change
University of Pennsylvania
I am Adrienne Barberg, an elementary school teacher living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For the past 5 years, I have taught in Madison, Wisconsin.
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As a scholar-practitioner, I aim to support other educators to expand upon existing curricula and practices to address issues like teaching to the test, rote curricula, content bans, marginalization of untested subjects, and the siloing of disciplines. I want to do this by examining what individual teachers can do, as I see this as the most practical way to address the problem while we address the issues on a more systemic level.
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Learn more about my background, positionality, and educational experiences.
Read the reflective essay that brought me to the subject of expansive curriculum practices, the conceptual framework that lays out the theoretical and practical grounding, and the recommendations for expansive curricular practices.
Listen to a podcast on creating Inquiry Design Models, read about the history of assessment in American schools, explore a project-based learning unit on voting, and more.
Read about the coursework that led me to this topic and guided my understanding throughout the capstone development process.
