Building Socially Engaged Classrooms: How Students Taking Action Together (STAT) Helps Facilitate Conversations around Contemporary Issues for Youth’s Civic Action

Current events and sociopolitical tensions have demonstrated the need to recognize and address the social injustices affecting students, including their self-understanding, dialogue, and learning in the classroom. As students witness and navigate the contemporary challenges within their environments, they are practicing critical awareness and constructing valuable perceptions, which they bring with them to their classrooms. Moving forward, administrators and educators must be vigilant and proactive about the ways in which we encourage and facilitate conversations on social justice and civic action in our school climates.