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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my students who were failing remote learning<\/a>. In the end, as I approach my grading deadline, only six students will fail. That seems like a success relative to the 22 who were in danger of failing two weeks ago, particularly since I saw four of the six only once or twice the whole term. But rather than focusing on failing, I’d like to highlight some of the successes – some of the most impressive final projects I’ve seen over my four years teaching on Chicago’s southwest side. Although remote learning has been a struggle, in the end, most students demonstrated powerful learning remotely on a variety of important topics that I’m going to highlight below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Global Politics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Global Politics is an International Baccalaureate<\/a> Diploma Programme<\/a> course with a wide scope and a lot left up to individual teachers of the subject. As a core internal assessment, students complete a political engagement activity, a service learning-oriented project, focused on learning about a political issue through secondary source research, interviews, and taking action. Students then analyze their learning and synthesize the variety of experiences they had. Students can focus on just about anything, although I recommend they focus on something with a local dimension. A few of the many interesting topics they focused on follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n