A few weeks ago, during a QUESTion Day assembly at one of our partner schools in the Bronx, a group of students stood on stage and spoke to an audience of 500 peers about their experience in the QUESTion Class. A Muslim […]
Students are leading the QUESTion Class! Over the course of this semester, more and more students are taking on greater responsibility in the classroom as teaching assistants. This role, however, is not new. During the QUESTion Project’s first year at […]
By Angelina Arias
Student, Bronx High School for Law and Community Service
Tom eagerly stepped through the doors of the train and sat in a nearby seat. […]
We have some big news: the Open Future Institute is expanding to California! In July we completed a very moving training with ten teachers from Alliance Marine – Innovation & Technology, a public charter school in the largest Charter Network […]
“Your team did a wonderful job of exposing our incoming freshmen to new ways of thinking about themselves, others and the world around them through the QUESTion workshops. We are excited to see how this new cohort grows intellectually, socially […]
Passing along an early green of summer trees, we reviewed our presentation one last time. Amherst College had invited us to present the QUESTion Project to a group of alumni interested in the holistic, human side of education. Three ambassadors […]
By Katery Castelan
Student, Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics
There has never been anything more admiring.
You are complex.
The way you define […]
By Levi Lamb
Student, Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics
Isolation,
such a commonly used word.
But do I feel
isolated?
How can you not,
lonely nights, tragic deaths.
Constant reminders that this is your
life.
And you shape it the way you want.
Yes,
I feel isolated,
even though there are many […]
Students began class by organizing their chairs into a circle. When everyone got quiet, the teacher silently stepped into the spotlight, placed an envelope on the floor, and then walked away. In the silence that followed, the mysterious envelope seemed […]
The answer: incredible communication.
“How do boys feel about girls’ insecurities?” “Why do guys not show sensitivity?” “Why don’t you tell me what the problem is instead of ignoring me?” “What does it mean to be masculine?” These […]
