Savannah Barker

Over the last few years, I’ve been thinking more intentionally about how the work already happening in my classes could become a starting point for something larger. I was reminded that change does not always begin with a big announcement or a perfect plan. Sometimes it begins by noticing what is already within reach, making…

Introduction How might we reframe the current middle school health program to explore healthy masculinities and better address students’ evolving needs, making it more relevant to their lives? This question became the foundation of my Cohort 21 Action Plan journey. My motivation stemmed from several key aspirations: to create a stronger sense of belonging for…

HOW MIGHT WE reframe the current middle school health program to explore healthy masculinities and better address students’ evolving needs, making it more relevant to their lives? The Evolution of my Thinking: I really enjoyed using Flint as a design thinking coach to help me develop my HMW question further, and also to generate solutions…

Urgent vs Important This year I’ve come back to Cohort 21 as a coach. I felt like the face-to-face sessions and this community helped to motivate and inspire me to focus on continuous improvement of my practice and program(s). I wanted to continue to grow in a community that supported me and also held me…

1) What question guided your inquiry and action plan? (HMW?)  How might we design a health program using a lens of positive masculinity to promote equity and inclusion of all learners? 2) What did you do and what impact did it have? The biggest impact that I think this project had was the work I’ve…

It would probably have been easier writing this post if I’d done it right after the second F2F in November, but here we are. HOW MIGHT WE… apply a lens of positive masculinity to the design of health curriculum to promote equity and inclusion of all learners? As we moved through the second F2F, I…