This week’s Beyond the Syllabus brings together of-the-moment public debates, critical research, and retellings of history that cause us to renew our perspective on and passion for discourse in the classroom and beyond.

After a pandemic, and an election, what does work look like for teenagers, and how can educators and employers work together to (re)imagine the future of teen work?

The value of norms, respect, and safety, in our country as in our schools.

Mythologies, debunked: how newly clarified information can inspire teachers and students to discuss, and learn, better.

Beyond the Syllabus posts offer a round-up of resources that are “practice-adjacent,” as Katherine often says. We offer recs for podcasts, fiction and non, and

Nourish yourself.

“Optimism is an explanatory process… it’s the narrative you tell that allows you to move forward.”

A style guide that should be ubiquitous in schools, new research in Black girls’ experiences in PWIs, and a call to courage from Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring.”

Three voices embrace the complexities of life and learning at this moment — and encourage us to push through them.

Arguing that the commonly upheld binary between logic and emotion is false, Eugenia Cheng suggests that we would all communicate clearly if we actively integrated both.