What are you able to present or inform us that may assist clarify what it’s wish to be an educator or a scholar in a secondary college proper now?

That’s the broad query we’re asking anybody who’s keen on contributing to our first problem of the 2023-24 college yr. Our aim? To create a collective portrait of what it means to be in highschool at the moment, as informed by these residing it. You may study extra right here.

To get you impressed, we’re posing 15 further questions that ask for a bit of extra element. We wish to know who you’re and the way that id impacts your life in school. We wish to understand how you study, or educate, finest — and what challenges you face. And we wish to know what your college is like, what’s particular about it, what position it performs in your group, and the way the world exterior impacts what occurs within the classroom and hallways.

Reply all or any of those questions, as you want. Use them as journal prompts and reply within the privateness of your individual pocket book. Use them for dialogue, and begin a dialog with a classmate or colleague. Or, submit your ideas right here, in our feedback part, and be a part of what we hope will change into a energetic and helpful dialog. (You’re welcome to establish your self with initials in lieu of a full title.)

Need extra? Here’s a free assortment of latest New York Instances items on all points of schooling at the moment that may additional jump-start your concepts. Scroll by and see what will get your consideration.

Then, select a number of of those inquiries to reply:

Questions on college, studying and id:

• What’s difficult about your life at school? Why?

• The place do you discover that means or pleasure?

• The place in your campus do you’re feeling most snug? The place do you’re feeling least snug? Why?

• Who’re the folks you stay up for seeing throughout your college day? What position do they play in your life?

• Underneath what circumstances do you study, or educate, finest? What will get in the way in which of that?

• What’s one thing you will have realized, or taught, in 2023 that you simply particularly worth? Why?

• College students: What do you would like your lecturers knew? Educators: What do you would like your college students knew?

Questions on your college and its tradition:

• What’s particular or distinctive about your college — whether or not for good or for unwell?

• What small particulars about your college might inform a bigger story about its college students or lecturers, its tradition, or its position in your group?

• How would you alter your college or its tradition for those who had the ability to?

Questions concerning the information media and concerning the position of schooling in our society:

• How do you assume the instances we live in are shaping your instructional or instructing expertise? That’s, what exterior forces considerably have an effect on what occurs in your college?

• What do outsiders, together with the information media, get mistaken about what it’s wish to be an educator or scholar proper now?

• What are you able to present or inform us that may assist make that portrait extra fascinating, nuanced, full or actual?

One final query:

If addressing these questions helped you floor one thing you want to discover additional, contemplate collaborating in our contest. You may ship a submission about any side of your life in highschool, small or giant, and you are able to do it in phrases or pictures, audio or video. Study extra right here.

College students 13 and older in america and Britain, and 16 and older elsewhere, are invited to remark. All feedback are moderated by Studying Community employees, however please remember the fact that as soon as your remark is accepted, it is going to be made public and should seem in print.

Our common every day Pupil Opinion questions will resume in September. Discover many, many extra right here. Academics, try this information to study how one can incorporate these prompts into your classroom.