I’m going to illustrate steps teachers, librarians, community leaders, and parents can take to help guide children and teens through a successful project-based initiative. Many passionate young people have a desire for change but get stuck in the weeds when it comes to following through with a clear strategic plan. Meanwhile, adults are grappling with how to help kids and teens take action while still keeping them safe and emotionally well. They are taking to the streets and demanding adults act on guns, climate, racism, poverty, and other big-picture issues confronting our world. Our children are growing up during a time when massive social tectonic plates are shifting all around them. While the novel centers around eighth grader Molly Frost’s efforts to address her middle school’s unjust dress code, I intended the book to be a blueprint for student activism. I wrote DRESS CODED to shed light on the pervasive problem of unfair and unequally enforced dress coding policies that disproportionately target students who identify as girls.
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