Melanie Wiggins // From A to the D and pursuing her childhood dream

Time Stamp:

• 00:25 - Drea's Check in

• 04:32 - Luna's Check in

• 10:08 - Introducing Melanie Wiggins

• 15:00 - What is the Collective?

• 17:39 - Melanie's journey in education

• 31:31 - Why Detroit?

• 37:39 - What's next for Melanie?

Back in November Luna and Drea recorded a conversation with Detroit educator and the Detroit Collective’s chair Melanie Wiggins.

Tune in as we explore a range of questions. Where has her education journey taken her? What can access to the arts in school provide for future success? What does it mean to follow through on a childhood dream of a profession? What is it like teaching in a place you never visited before making it into a home? As we teach on a pandemic, what is the work to do?

We laugh, we  ...