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This project, although adult-based, sends a powerful message via video; I believe it could inspire children to create similar projects of their own with a powerful message to the world. In this way, it may be used as part of transformational learning in our classrooms. 

Research Research Summary:  Linda Darling-Hammond is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University where she has launched the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network. She has also served as faculty sponsor for the Stanford Teacher Education Program. She is a former president of the American Educational Research Association and member of the National Academy of Education. Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on issues of school restructuring, teacher quality and educational equity. From 1994-2001, she served as executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, a blue-ribbon panel whose 1996 report, What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future, led to sweeping policy changes affecting teaching and teacher education. In 2006, this report was named one of the most influential affecting U.S. education and Darling-Hammond was named one of the nation's ten most influential people affecting educational policy over the last decade. Among Darling-Hammond's more than 300 publications are Preparing Teachers for a Changing World: What Teachers Should Learn and be Able to Do (with John Bransford, for the National Academy of Education, winner of the Pomeroy Award from AACTE), Teaching as the Learning Profession: A Handbook of Policy and Practice (Jossey-Bass: 1999) (co-edited with Gary Sykes), which received the National Staff Development Council's Outstanding Book Award for 2000; and The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Schools that Work, recipient of the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award for 1998. Current Research:  Teacher education; school leadership development; school redesign; educational equity; instruction of diverse learners; education policy. Research Interests:  Professional / Staff Development Academic Restructuring Research Design Adolescent Development High-stakes Testing Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE)

Working as sound designers and story tellers, HTHMA 12th grade students created 1-2 minute abstract audio fictions. They were asked to design a vivid sound narrative without the use of any dialogue. They could only use sounds that they recorded in the field with a portable audio device and/or custom sounds they designed in the music creation program, Reason

Life stacked the odds firmly against Sampson Davis, George Jenkins and Rameck Hunt. That didn't stop three Newark, N.J., boys born to broken homes and housing projects from growing up to become doctors. Today, their story becomes the focus of a month-long discussion by students at Central and Logan high schools.