{"id":68401,"date":"2019-10-04T10:35:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T14:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=68401"},"modified":"2019-10-04T11:02:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T15:02:48","slug":"in-dc-teachers-run-the-jail-its-turning-inmates-into-students-koenig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/10\/04\/in-dc-teachers-run-the-jail-its-turning-inmates-into-students-koenig\/","title":{"rendered":"In DC, teachers run the jail. It\u2019s turning inmates into students. [Koenig]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2019-10-03-in-dc-teachers-run-the-jail-it-s-turning-inmates-into-students?utm_source=EdSurgeNext&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=10-04-2019&amp;mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWWpkbU5HVTNZV001TnpGbSIsInQiOiIwTFhtNlYzQzc1bUxNckh2WkdIdkFaUmRnaWdsbEtYbCtzeERHRzJTVzIycGtCcFcyM1RGYndcLzFoZEJ1dk90V05uQnZDYmlMR0JKMXNUbWJ3MENQZFVcL2FQRlNvWmhWSm16TGQwQ3Bqa0daNjNMQmNnXC9mdnZBWHYrXC9QakxFZG4ifQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>In DC, teachers run the jail. It\u2019s turning inmates into students.<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from edsurge.com by Rebecca Koenig<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">That was before Amy Lopez showed up. In 2017, the petite Texan arrived at the jail with an armada of plans and the energy to launch them. She invited college professors to teach for-credit classes inside, in person. She purchased tablets to offer short-term learning opportunities to transient inmates. And she created a residential learning bloc named for the phoenix, the mythical bird who rises from its ashes to have a second chance at life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cEvery single person I talk to\u2014staff members or incarcerated students\u2014will say it was a game-changer when she arrived,\u201d says Marc M. Howard, director of the Prisons and Justice Initiative at Georgetown University. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen an administration, a staff, an agency so supportive of programming for its incarcerated residents. I think they\u2019re a model of what corrections officials around the country should be.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It turns out, people in jail love TED Talks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The videos are inspiring, informative and\u2014perhaps most importantly\u2014available any time on the tablets they can borrow for hours on end.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201cA lot of people come to jail and just leave with nothing. They don\u2019t know nothing but what they knew before they came,\u201d he says. \u201cIf you had something to go out there and look forward to, there\u2019s less chance you\u2019ll be turned back.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also see:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v05S9v_JKt0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In DC, teachers run the jail. It\u2019s turning inmates into students. &#8212; from edsurge.com by Rebecca Koenig Excerpts: That was before Amy Lopez showed up. In 2017, the petite Texan arrived at the jail with an armada of plans and the energy to launch them. She invited college professors to teach for-credit classes inside, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[374,174,115,302,102,7,559,15,436,480,310,66,212,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-learning","category-career-development","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-hubs","category-lifelong-learning","category-reinvent","category-society","category-staying-relevant","category-student-related","category-surviving","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68403,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68401\/revisions\/68403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}