Teaching Transcendence Campaign

Education must go beyond what it is now in order to become a truly liberating force. Humanization is our ends, and critical thinking is our means. Let's start transcending, y'all.

Critical Missions, initiatives at the heart of this educational campaign

Critical philosophy,

foundational thought that

facilitates meaningful education

Critical Methods, techniques to evoke humane thinking, learning & teaching

Critical Objectives, the agenda driving the trajectory of all curriculum

Critical commitments, pledges to connect ideals to meaningful action

Critical Missions

Initiatives at the heart of the campaign

Critical Mission

Anatomy of Humanity

When we look closely at what it means to be human, we discover many elements of our experience that we have in common, that can connect us to one another.

RIPE Thinking & Being

Our critical thinking skills are RIPE
for the taking in the modes of being that humanize us the most— Reverence, Imagination, Problematization & Enhancement.

Critical Philosophy

Schools could use a new story, and there's one waiting for us in how we learn. We are knowledge-builders; we build on our knowledge & use our knowledge to build the world.

When we are critically thinking, our world & our lives become truly vibrant. We evoke this enriching color by thinking with more shades of Intention, Essentials, Consequences, Independence & Empowerment.

Colors of Critical Thinking

Knowledge-Builder Narrative

Everyone's an Educator Approach

The Adventure of Democracy

Each of us is both a learner & a teacher at once, and by embracing this fact, we are liberated to reach the highest levels of critical thinking. You in?

Democracy is the endeavor through
which humanity becomes sovereign, as individuals & communities. Freedom must be understood to be secured, so democracy is a subject & method to learn at school!

Critical Philosophy

foundational thought for critical learning

Learn & Live, practice praxis

Praxis Of By For the People

Critical Methods

When we are true to education & embody how it is of all people, by all people, and for all people, we discover much about the power of democracy as the ultimate method & challenge.

We do not learn for learning's sake; we learn to apply knowledge to our lives. The thinking we learn to do is inextricably linked to how we live.

Let's learn to do both well!

Humans are transcendently capable,

able to go beyond what has been done before and enter spaces that were never before dreamed of. If together we learn

how, we can be more transcendent!

Humans are transcendently capable, able to go beyond what has been done before and enter spaces that were never before dreamed of. If together we learn how, we can be more transcendent!

Storybook Empowerment

Treating our life like a story we

are writing allows us to seize the protagonist spirit within us, so each chapter of our lives can become truly novel.

Self through the Social Studies

Looking in the mirror teaches us about being human, much like how looking at other humans reveals what is in the mirror. We discover ourselves through others & in others.

Learning to ask the Critical Why

Other creatures have an under-standing of the who, what, when, where, and even how, but only humans can grasp the WHY, the greater story that transcends the facts in front of us.

Dialogue is Dynamism

Philosophy as Method

Other creatures have an under-standing of the who, what, when, where, and even how, but only humans can grasp the WHY, the greater story that transcends the facts in front of us.

We are all philosophers, because
philosophy is about asking WHY in a way that nourishes our need for knowledge that transcends the cold facts & empowers us with context beyond content.

Adventure Strategy

Education is an exciting endeavor, but we've lost our sense of the adventure of the unknown. The critical curriculum is intended to bring this magic back!

Umbrella Method

Teachers don't persuade or convince. They help people discover the most useful tools at their disposable. All education is taught from this critical stance, not a false superior one.

Strategies for critically humane education

Critical Methods

Critical commitments, pledges to connect ideals to meaningful action

1. Cultivate humanizing practices 2. Develop critical sight and speech 3. Harness knowledge for transformation

Critical Objectives

Humanizing Practices-

Miss Adventure aims to keep an important question at the heart of all her work— what does it mean to humanize, both ourselves and others?

Our humanity frames everything we do, and knowledge-building of all kinds, including academic subjects, can be enriched through this focus.

Humanizing Practices- Miss Adventure aims to keep an important question at the heart of all her work— what does it mean to humanize, both ourselves and others? Our humanity frames everything we do, and knowledge-building of all kinds, including academic subjects, can be enriched through this focus.

Critical Sight & Speech- This educational aim concentrates on the human ability to analyze and name our world prior to transforming it. Learning to look for and speak to those things that are humanizing is a powerful way to harness our natural abilities to bring about a world of greater freedom.

Transformative Knowing- Critical educators believe in transcending traditional education, an enterprise that historically focused on describing the world, because naming the world is only half the work— the most important (and most difficult) part of knowing is using it to take action in the world.