Project-Based Learning

By: Kelly Niccolls and Rebecca Midles. Kelly and Rebecca take us on a tour of select Puget Sound schools that adopt the Whole Child Initiative, focused on community partnership and rearing the next generation of local industry expertise.

David Ross, formerly the Senior Director for the Buck Institute for Education and CEO of the Partnership for 21st Century Learning, continues a monthly series chronicling his decision to go from classroom to boardroom and back again.  In this edition, he focuses on the rugged persistence of misconceptions.

Rebecca explores how Dallas ISD is providing students with choice through P-techs - schools that are a partnership between high schools, colleges, and industry partners.

Emily Liebtag and Lauren Barry visit Boston Day and Evening Academy to learn how they are paving new roads to college & career readiness.

By: Terra Tarango. Learning becomes relevant to students when instilled with purpose. It also helps them make a positive impact on the world.

Dr. Eric Williams, Superintendent of Loudoun County Public Schools, talks about the benefits of contributing to local communities in this podcast.

Iowa BIG connects students to their communities, enabling the learning of core academics and 21st century skills through real-world projects.

Project-based learning may be the ultimate instructional approach for many reasons, but none possibly more important than its ability to propel a learner’s journey toward self-actualization.

ConnectEd is taking Linked Learning national through long-term often grant-funded district partnerships. This month we observed two of these partnerships in action.  

New models are enabling students to acquire practical foundational skills for the future of work—a future that is increasingly distributed, diverse, device-agnostic and asynchronous in nature.