Micro-Strategies
A Tree Grows in Oaxaca
Paloma Udovic Ramos, Head of Firebird Fellowship, AIM
What is possible when you plant seeds?
That is the question the Academy for Impact through Music (AIM) team posed to parents after a week of working with children and teachers at Escuela Iniciación Musical de Santa Cecilia (EIMSC), a school one hour south of Oaxaca City, Mexico in Colonia Vicente Guerrero.
Sitting in the Student Seat at AIM’s Fire Up Residency
Olivia Romanet, Music Theory Teacher, MusicEnsemble, Conservatoire de Musique de Genève
That first day, I felt like a teenager: somewhat defiant, hesitant to initiate, eager to observe, even mistrusting…but also wanting to chat, meet people, laugh, and share.
AIM knew what they were doing. We’d found ourselves on the other side of the classroom, sitting in the student chair. And in experimenting with ways to develop our own community and agency—our capacity for action—as educators, we found ourselves viewing students’ needs with new empathy.
