What We’ve Done

Summer Program
The Rethinkers meet every day for six weeks in the summer. Our summer school develops a different kind of leader for rethinking our schools. We don’t believe in power over or power under. We believe in power among.

News conferences
At the end of the summer, Rethinkers design their own news conference to tell the city what we want changed in our schools and why. We’ve gotten good at it.

Our speeches from news conference #2.
Our speeches from news conference #1.
All the coverage we got from these news conferences.

Evaluating schools
We handed out surveys to hundreds of students. Then we wrote a really good evaluation of New Orleans public schools. Click here to read our report.

Some of us like to write
Check out our poetry book about bathrooms! Read some of our monthly columns in a newspaper called The Trumpet.

Some of us are photographers
Here are some self-portraits and pictures of abandoned schools we took with the Kid Camera Project. Click here to see them.

We are all public speakers
The Rethinkers speak at rallies and all kinds of events. Last summer we did a workshop about New Orleans public schools at the US Social Forum in Atlanta.