1. What question guided your inquiry and action plan? (HMW?)
How might we build student capacity for empathy through writers’ workshops?
2. What did you do and what impact did it have?
I continued to work on a draft proposal in response to my research question. I made a list of potential collaborators and collected more resources.
3. What did you learn in the process?
I learned that, while this isn’t the biggest project, it will require people and time to implement. I collected the following resources to read: Suzanne Keen’s work on narrative empathy, Unsettling the Settler Within by Paulette Regan, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Heath Justice.
4. What is your big takeaway and what questions do you still have?
I’m still very passionate about this project and excited about the opportunity to work with potential partners/ collaborators, I just need to find the right time to implement it.
There are some big questions I still need to find answers to:
- Is my school interested in supporting this project?
- Are organizations and school partnerships interested in supporting this project?
- How will this work with the school’s schedule?
- How will the school’s schedule line up with the schedules of the outside organizations we hope to partner with?
- How will this work with my schedule?