#8: Model Congress, Ten Years Later – Part 1

The Bad Chinese Teacher Podcast

On air December 2nd, 2019. Recorded November 29th, 2019.

There aren’t many things that can compel a group of people to wake up before 9am the day after Thanksgiving to record a podcast, which is why I’m so grateful and glad that these five good high school friends were game to guest on this week’s episode. We’re coming up on ten years since we graduated high school, and we spent a couple of hours this weekend reflecting on our shared memories of participating in Model Congress during our high school years.

It was really neat to see the different spaces each of us has carved out in the world over the ten years since leaving high school, but what proved particularly poignant was how continually relevant this one high school extracurricular proved to be in all of our lives. As I’m preparing to take my own students to their first Model Congress conference of the year this week, I’m again reminded of the power in experiential learning and what it truly means to equip your students to succeed.

This is a two-part episode; the second hour of our conversation will be posted in two weeks.

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