Kids should help run their own schools
DK Holland |
TED Residency
• July 2016
What would schools look like if students had a say in how they are run? DK Holland wanted to find out, so she developed Kids' Council—a unique, free after-school program in which kids take the lead, setting up a micro-democracy right in their classrooms. Working with grades three to five at a public school in Brooklyn, New York, she has found that even the quietest, most challenged children tend to express natural generosity, inquisitiveness, individualism and fairness when given some freedom.