ABSTRACT
To support youth engagement in physical activity in the borderlands of New Mexico and Texas, Youth on the Move offered professional development training for secondary physical education teachers to help them learn to use an Activist Approach to teaching in their classrooms. These teachers over the course of the year found importance not only for being able to integrate the approach in real time in their context with their own students but also importance in having a network of support to accompany the learning process. This chapter describes one teacher’s experience of encountering the principles of the approach, implementing it in her classes, and seeing the results of integrating student voice to respond to contextual needs, yielding a deeper understanding of the influence of listening and responding over time.
