🎉🎉 #Celebrate with us Wednesday, November 20th with a public viewing of Beyond Debate, A Revolution in Education, a new PBS documentary (airing NATIONWIDE) featuring our Debate-Inspired Classrooms™ program. Following the screening, we'll have a conversation with featured educators and other special guests. Reserve your seat today (using the QR code in the invitation below or the link in the comments) for our special fundraising event -- BDL Bright Lights: A Night to Celebrate Debate-Inspired Classrooms™ on the Big Screen. We'd love to welcome individuals and companies as sponsors of this spectacular event, too. Follow the same links to learn more about how you can help make this night a success and invest in this research-backed program that is yielding transformational outcomes for students in Boston Public Schools. We'll see you at the movies! #BeyondDebate #impact
Boston Debate League
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Developing critical thinkers ready for college, career, and engagement with the world around them.
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The Boston Debate League (BDL) is a non-profit organization that works in partnership with the Boston Public Schools (BPS) to support policy debate teams in middle and high schools and to train BPS teachers to use debate as part of their classroom practice. For the last 15 years, the BDL has been bringing together an active community of students, teachers, administrators, and community leaders devoted to improving education and life skills of young people in Boston. The BDL’s mission is to integrate argumentation and competitive debate into BPS schools to develop critical thinkers ready for college, career, and engagement with the world around them. The BDL’s focus is to make a significant impact on the schools it serves by implementing two core programs, each with a proven track record of success over the last several years. After-School Debate (ASD), the BDL’s flagship program, builds debate teams open to all students who then have the opportunity to compete with students across the city. Through the Debate-Inspired Classrooms program, the BDL supports teachers with professional development sessions and instructional coaching as they use debate and argumentation to transform the academic atmosphere in their classrooms. Results have consistently shown the positive impact of debate and argumentation on students and classrooms. For example, students who participate in debate teams have demonstrated significantly higher performance on many of the standard indicators of college readiness, including standardized tests, GPAs, and Advanced Placement tests. BDL’s long term vision is a world where all young people are engaged in critical discourse, informed by evidence, and empowered to lead. View the rest of our social media profiles here: https://linktr.ee/bostondebate
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#Learn more about how debate-inspired instruction helps teachers create classroom environments that foster critical thinking and civil discourse, enhanced #literacy and communication skills, and collaboration amongst students. Check out the #trailer of the PBS #documentary that features our Debate-Inspired Classrooms program and team - Marisa Suescun, Sarah Mayper, and Carlos J Monteiro - and some amazing Boston Public Schools teachers, plus the work of Les Lynn with Argument-Centered Education in Chicago. #BDL #debate #classrooms #publiceducation #BeyondDebate 💡 🎥 🎬
Beyond Debate - Trailer
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🗣🗣 Big news alert!!! 🎉🎉 It may be a rainy day in Boston, but the Boston Debate League is radiating with excitement. We are delighted to announce that our Debate-Inspired Classrooms™ program is featured in a documentary that begins airing #NATIONWIDE on PBS stations today. The film captures the transformation that happens in classrooms - critical thinking and civil discourse, enhanced communication skills, and collaboration amongst students - when #educators integrate #debate into their #teaching practice. Viewers will get to see similar work taking place in Chicago, as well as our amazing and thoughtful #BDL Instructional Coaches working in #classrooms with Boston Public Schools #teachers. Stay tuned this week for an official trailer and more info about our BDL Bright Lights: A Night to Celebrate Debate-Inspired Classrooms™ on the Big Screen event. We'll see you at the movies!
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The BDL is thrilled to bring the experiences and passion of Julie Kurd and Maddy Rodriguez to our Board of Directors. We're excited for all that we'll accomplish together!
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This summer, BDL Executive Director Kimberly Willingham traveled to Ghana with Debate-Inspired educator and BDL Board Member Mary Dibinga for a global educators summit. Read Kim's reflections on taking the BDL international. #ASCDGhana #IES2024 #LearnTeachLead #BDLinGhana
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The BDL is thrilled to welcome BDL alum Valeria Pereira as our new Volunteer Manager! Please give her a warm welcome.
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We are thrilled to announce that, thanks to the unwavering support of our champions in the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives, $150,000 has been allocated in the FY2025 state budget to support Boston Debate League’s programming for Boston Public Schools students and professional development for educators. #BDL cultivates learning communities both in and outside of classrooms where student leadership and collaboration are applied to real-world issues. Our core programs - After-School Debate, Debate-Inspired Classrooms, and Resolved - provide unique learning opportunities that develop students into critical thinkers ready for college, career, and engagement in the world. We are deeply #grateful to every legislator, staffer, and supporter who believes in the power of the BDL model and the value of investing in our impact. Special thanks to House Ways & Means Chair Aaron Michlewitz, House Speaker Ronald Mariano, Senate President Karen Spilka, Representative Adrian Madaro, Senate Ways & Means Chair Michael J. Rodrigues, and Senator Lydia Edwards.
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The power of debate!
Sure, there are lessons learned from #competition, but what we're prioritizing at the Boston Debate League is skill acquisition. And the research speaks for itself. In this Education Next article, researchers Beth Schueler and Kate Larned share their findings: "When students are on a debate team, their reading scores improve by 13 percent of a standard deviation, or about two-thirds of a typical year of learning. We find the biggest gains are for students with the lowest elementary-school test scores and reflect improvements in literacy skills related to critical thinking and reading comprehension," and "Debaters are 17 percent more likely to graduate high school within five years and 29 percent more likely to enroll in a postsecondary institution." Check out the full article to learn more. #Literacy #College #Graduation #CriticalThinking #BeyondDebate
Resolved: Debate Programs Boost Literacy and College Enrollment - Education Next
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Kudos to Debate-Inspired Classrooms Senior Instructional Coach Sarah Mayper, who recently celebrated 10 years with the BDL, on leading our program evaluation efforts! To learn what the team of researchers who work with Sarah shared about our Debate-Inspired Classrooms program at Educational Researcher - AERA's annual meeting, click on the link in the comments.
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Our Managing Director of Programs, Marisa Suescun, shares all the reasons why you should enhance your teaching toolkit with the Boston Debate League's Debate-Inspired Educator Summer Institute! On August 21-22, come to Suffolk University for two days of hands-on workshops, innovative ideas, and networking with fellow educators, plus enjoy free lunch and earn professional development credits. Register at the link in the comments below: