A TMS School Vision Production:
Students from the PS 130 Youth Equity Congress get behind the camera and ask what family and community means to the folks at a Family Friday cultural event at PS 130 The Parkside School in Brooklyn.
This is part of a series of TMS-PS 130 collaborative school vision media productions. Here’s how they come together:
Identify School Goals
TMS works with PS 130 administrators and teachers to outline initiatives where they want to spread the word, and evaluate the community experience and impact of their efforts among students, families and teachers.
Empower Student Voice & Media Literacy through Community Media Making
We find existing student programs with student voice at the center, like the Youth Equity Congress that was already engaged in supporting upstanders in their community, and work with them to interact within the community through video productions to find out what’s on people’s minds, investigate a theme, and share with audiences what’s going on at their school and how it is impacting families.
Evaluate the Results
By critically viewing the resulting videos: teachers check their own understanding of the outlined goals and share with their peers as in-house professional development, administrators analyze the state of their initiatives, and students celebrate their production, and with each viewing, when the metacognitive media literacy skills are firing, they internalize how they used media to collaborate, interact with the community, and unlock knowledge to impact the direction of their school.
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