Pushing Praxis brings together instructional practices, interdisciplinary curriculum, research, writing, and conversations about transforming teaching and learning. Founded by educator, researcher, and writer Nina Hike, it draws on more than 30 years of teaching, scholarship, and community engagement.
Teaching • Justice • Inquiry • Community
30 Praxes from 30 Years of Teaching
Praxis #1: Meet the People Behind Science
Introduce students to the people behind scientific discoveries. Students select a scientist, explore one of their quotes, and meet classmates through a Scientists Mingle.
Praxis #2: What Lens Do You Bring to Science?
Help students consider how their identities, experiences, families, and communities shape how they see and participate in science.
Praxis #3: Safe Science Starts Here
Build trust and confidence in the laboratory through a safety orientation, classroom safety diagram, and hands-on practice with scientific tools and techniques.
Pushing Praxis Podcast — Season 3 Coming Soon
Theme: Legacy and Sustainability-Conversations with educators, families, organizers, and community leaders exploring how we carry the work forward.
About Pushing Praxis
Paulo Freire (1970) described praxis as “reflection and action directed at the structures to be transformed.”
Pushing Praxis is a space for exploring teaching, learning, inquiry, justice, and community through dialogue, curriculum, public scholarship, and action. Through podcast conversations, classroom resources, writing, and professional learning, I share instructional practices that invite educators to think deeply about their classroom decisions and the experiences those decisions create for students.
Grounded in Freire’s vision of critical consciousness, Pushing Praxis explores how race, racism, identity, power, culture, and community shape teaching and learning. Drawing from culturally relevant science teaching and justice-centered science education, the work encourages educators to question dominant assumptions, value multiple ways of knowing, foster student and epistemic agency, and create conditions for rightful presence in which all learners are recognized as contributors to knowledge.
The classroom resources, reflections, and praxes shared here are grounded in the belief that instructional decisions matter. By making instructional decision-making visible, Pushing Praxis helps educators thoughtfully adapt ideas to support their own students, classrooms, and communities. Pushing Praxis invites you to reflect, experiment, and take action toward more equitable, intellectually engaging, and humanizing learning environments.
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