What are alternatives to positioning teachers as experts and students as passive learners? What happens when teachers position themselves next to students, as co-learners? What changes when we invite students to teach teachers?

“It was a powerful book. It really hit me. I cried at some parts … It also explained what some transgender people go through” — Amissa, Delta Student

As we celebrate Pride this month (and always!), we are looking back at the film, Gender is Like an Ocean, made from our work with grade 8 students in 2016. The film shows grade 8 students from Delta Alternative School, alongside Masters of Teaching (MT) students from OISE, create arts-based projects connected to their experiences of gender as a response to Kirstin Cronn-Mills’ book Beautiful Music for Ugly Children (2012).

What does it mean to re-imagine curriculum without predetermined outcomes?

What happens when teachers encourage students to raise questions and follow where those questions lead them?

Teachers often experience curriculum imposed on them from outside their schools and classrooms. Ranging from recommended titles to instructional mandates, curriculum in schools is often backwards mapped from prefigured outcomes.

How can expanding what counts as curriculum help to challenge and change power relationships in schools?