Why We Need to Make Self-Care a Priority: Four Ideas to Start
[…] areas that we can work on and enable us to think through our experiences. Talk about things. A couple years ago I thought about doing my own podcast but what stopped me was that I wasn’t sure about what I would talk about or the benefit for others. However, last September I finally started […]
What Happens when you Launch Students’ Interests into the World?
[…] in Rhode Island, who, through my relationship with the Assistant Superintendent, Paula Dillon, were invited to be part the second season of our A Revolution in Education podcast series, with my good friend and co-host Jim McCue. After much discussion, Jack Culton, Xan Maddock-Mark, and Hunter Kuchenbaur decided to joi the team and, in […]
Students as Coauthors of Learning: A Resources Guide
[…] with Respect, a book by Starr Sackstein, outlines the benefits of co-constructing success criteria with students. Sackstein discusses the topic with Jennifer Gonzales on the Cult of Pedagogy podcast. Systems That Support Coauthored Experiences New Tech Network: 200 K-12 schools (90% in districts) with wall-to-wall team-taught integrated projects. A great set of rubrics guide the incorporation […]
Teaching Social Justice and Anti-Racism: 5 Engaging Project Ideas
[…] experiences teachers are using to teach these themes and five provocative questions as you consider designing your own: Project #1: Creating More Just Laws: The ‘Broken Laws’ Podcast Project Driving Question: How can we make our society better for everyone? Age group: 8th grade This eigth-grade ILEAD project began with a compelling provocation: How have laws […]
Citizenship Skills Support Durable Pathways
[…] employer and employee, organizations that can integrate citizenship skills into their pathways will support both a robust and well-informed workplace and vibrant communities. As Baratunde, host of How To Citizen Podcast, said on an episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, “Schools are training grounds for how we show up. We hold onto principles, ideals, a sense of […]
How Challenge Based Learning Helps Students Around the World Make a Difference on the Sustainable Development Goals
[…] mobile devices and the internet. Students at Eveline High School interview their peers at school. Based on the results of their research, they created Ilifa Lethu, a podcast through which they share information from difficult-to-access textbooks, local museums, people in their community who hold historical and cultural knowledge, and others with expertise in Zimbabwean […]
The State of the American High School in 2024
[…] add fractions, learn long division, or factor polynomials when computers can calculate. Instead, “humans should learn to use computing tools to address increasingly complex problems.” (See 2020 podcast with Wolfram and stay tuned for an update). Our school visits showed very little math instruction relevant to career pathways. It’s admittedly hard for schools to […]
Santa Ynez Valley Union High: An Organic Project-Based Learning Journey
This chronicles one high school’s new and recent journey in an organic implementation of problem and project-based learning. Teachers and students are pushing forward with student voice and choice, civic engagement, student ownership and sharing high quality, public work.
