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A review by leahchole
What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen by Kate Fagan
4.0
What Made Maddy Run should be required reading for all graduating high school senior athletes. As so many of my students show so much of the same mindset as Madison Holleran - this causes me so much concern even at the Freshmen level where students place so much of their self worth on their grades and accomplishments and overload their schedules so that they execute a life plan mapped out by their parents.
Happiness and creativity is something that we rarely allow our students to explore and identify so much so that we've become wrapped up in a culture of "points". It inspired me to reflect on how I run my own classroom and reminded me of the lens of humanity I should continue to view my students through.
Fagan investigates so much of how social media impacts our perceived, projected, and internalized selves that really got me thinking about my own life with social media and how it's impacting my students' lives. I hope all of my students who value themselves in this way and create so much anxiety from what they see/post on social media get a chance to read this book.
This book allowed me to investigate the mind of Madison Holleran, but also forced me to look inwardly at how I utilize social media to a point of feeling disconnectedness and how much it can contribute to the mental health famine that our country is facing right now.
Happiness and creativity is something that we rarely allow our students to explore and identify so much so that we've become wrapped up in a culture of "points". It inspired me to reflect on how I run my own classroom and reminded me of the lens of humanity I should continue to view my students through.
Fagan investigates so much of how social media impacts our perceived, projected, and internalized selves that really got me thinking about my own life with social media and how it's impacting my students' lives. I hope all of my students who value themselves in this way and create so much anxiety from what they see/post on social media get a chance to read this book.
This book allowed me to investigate the mind of Madison Holleran, but also forced me to look inwardly at how I utilize social media to a point of feeling disconnectedness and how much it can contribute to the mental health famine that our country is facing right now.