How Real World Learning Is Equipping Solutionaries In Kansas City
[…] students take is project management where they learn design thinking and skills critical to successful projects. Then students pick a topic of interest and work with a teacher to develop a plan and launch a project. Recent topics have includes peer mentoring for mental health, recycling, mobility for disabled youth, and the physics of […]
An Emphasis on Place: The International School Grounds Alliance
The International School Grounds Alliance works with schools across the world to instill a sense of place, community and belonging in learners.
A Lifeboat in an Education Crisis: Supporting Educators through Inclusive Actions
[…] quality education is provided for students, while also maintaining their own well-being. After I left, I began searching for ways to continue to support struggling students—and the teachers like me, treading the waters of the system—to help provide a lifeboat, of sorts. Then, I joined the efforts of the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA for […]
School With a View: Vistas, Movement, and Learner Well-being
I recently visited a high school and asked a teacher why the blinds were closed. His reply, “to prevent students from being distracted,” is one that we’ve heard over and over again in our school visits around the world. I then asked the students how they felt about it. One young woman replied, “It’s […]
NFT in Edu: What Does the Future Hold?
[…] unique and cannot be traded as an equal value. In my eighth grade STEAM class, I shared this video explainer which provides some examples to help students and teachers better understand NFTs. One example shows how a $100 bill can be divided up into different amounts but keeps the same value. However, when it comes […]
3 Tips to Build Student’s STEM Confidence and Curiosity from America’s Top Young Scientist
Student Sarah Park shares her story of curiosity and how it led to a purposeful passion.
Ma Ka Hana Ka ʻIke: In Working, One Learns
[…] such as tiny homes and cottages for the elderly, alternative energy systems, educational facilities for Hāna School, and other urgent community needs that arise. Lyman, a graduate teacher, and a student apprentice milling wood for Building & Construction projects (2021) Students at Mahele Farm learn soil sciences, planting and harvesting cycles, food safety and […]
Community is Learning: How The Act of Learning is Rooted in Neighbors, Family and Place
[…] formative to who I have become and why I am an educator. Learning was communal, and was rooted in human connection and relationships. Family friends were my teachers. They tapped into my joy for nature and people, as we explored, sung together and learned as a cohort, team, and family. With Mahlathini & Mahotella […]
The Cognitive Age: Building Brains that Learn Better
[…] to what was now needed in the workforce. And worse, it failed to develop any understanding or sense that we can all change our brains and our cognitive effectiveness. “Today nobody even knows what people are going to need to know tomorrow. As new concepts keep entering the economy faster and faster, it’s like living […]
Real World Learning in Action
[…] Real World Learning attendees were recently able to tour high schools in the Kansas City area to see high-level learning in action. Participants engaged with students and teachers, toured facilities and learned about the joys and challenges happening in each district. Although each school was different, the centering message of being community focused and […]
