When students say they want to change the world, listen: Angela Maiers — from dmlcentral.net by Howard Rheingold

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Ask any teacher why they teach, and for all their other reasons, I bet they agree that teaching matters. Doing something that matters is being someone that matters. How could young learners today learn that they can teach and contribute to others’ learning? How could they learn that what they are doing – and they, themselves – matter? Angela Maiers has been igniting a movement around what she and others are calling Genius Hour. Maiers, a former teacher and now full time education advocate, activist, and consultant, brings together passion-based learning, activist learning, and the peer learning of show and tell through Choose2Matter and Quest2Matter, programs for students, parents, teachers, and schools.