While lesson planning late on a Sunday night last year, East High School social studies teacher Anisa Yudawanti texted a friend, teacher Amy Wilson, with a “wild idea.”
Months later, Yudawanti’s freshmen students and Wilson’s second- and third-graders at John Muir Elementary School held copies of the books they co-created, “What Does it Mean to Tell the Truth?”
“I was asking students for a very different kind of demonstration of learning, a very different kind of assignment that was very closely tied to their personal dreams, their ideas,” Yudawanti said. “A lot of them were not used to that and I think that was a really exciting thing to do.”