A group of CEHD faculty, staff, and graduate students recently published an op/ed in Minnpost which aims to emphasize the importance of building trust between students and educators as K-12 schools return to in-person learning.
Peter Demerath, OLPD Associate Professor; Sara Kemper, CAREI Research Associate; Eskender Yousuf, OLPD PhD student; and Bodunrin Banwo, OLPD adjunct instructor and PhD alumnus drew upon their qualitative research collaboration at Harding High School in St. Paul to inform their arguments in the op/ed.
In the piece, the authors argue that educators build trust by responding to six unspoken queries they had learned were often on the minds of their students: “Why are you here?,” “How much do you know and care about me?,” “How much do you respect me?,” “How real are you?,” “Do you know how to help me learn?,” and “What are you willing to do to help me?”
