Madeline Newton Driscoll

Aug 6, 2023 | truthforteachers.com | Angela Watson |Jennifer Brinkmeyer |Melissa Forbes |Madeline Newton Driscoll

ANGELA: Deonna, what does it mean to be rooted in joy and how did you uncover what that looks like in your own life and work? DEONNA: I love this question because it really gets to the crux of my educational philosophy, and what it means to be rooted in joy is to really radically and unapologetically center joy in your classroom, in both the academic and the classroom culture experience. And I think that at first, that’s kind of a head-scratcher for people. They’re like, “Do we need that?