The Benefits of Play-Based Learning For All Ages
[…] connections to career success and the concepts around play. “Helping kids play more will equip them to be relevant to the workplace and to society,” said John Goodwin, CEO of the Lego Foundation and the former CFO for The Lego Group. According to the CEOs of the Fortune 500 companies, collaboration and teamwork are […]
Embedding Growth Mindset Practices: The Toolkit Version
[…] will learn and gather insights into how students feel about themselves and how they learned or didn’t learn on a particular day. The Brain and How Learning Works Strategies and Considerations to Grow Practice: This can include a phased approach to teaching the science, but the most important part is explicitly teaching that the […]
How Design Thinking Transforms Communities, One Project at a Time
[…] a later stage. Using the ‘25 ideas in 10 minutes’ challenge, Maggie got some teams to create over 100 ideas around developing flood and earthquake-proof housing. Other good frameworks for ideation include the ‘Yes, and’ strategy, where one team develops a series of solutions and then passes the sheet to another group to affirm […]
Youth Corps SC: An Afterschool Program Creating Equity for All
[…] our own if we are introverted or feel insecure about ourselves, especially with someone who is different from us. But put students in a real-life experience, challenge, work project, or activity, and now they are working side by side and they are on one team. The other person is no longer just someone who […]
Student Voice and Co-Leadership: What They Mean to Students
[…] the pandemic I was as eager as ever to jump right back into what I love, so I decided to create an internship opportunity for myself to work alongside the Crosstown High Instructional Leadership Team in the development of school-wide project-based and competency-based learning goals. Throughout the course of the summer, I participated in […]
Five Benefits of a Global Virtual Internship
[…] address challenges that we still might not even be able to imagine today. Here are the top five benefits of joining a virtual internship: 1. Gain real-life, work experience with an international organization. 2. Broaden your global perspective and ability to collaborate with international teams and professionals. 3. Develop key 21st-century skills necessary to […]
Rethinking Urban Education: Tacoma Public Schools of Choice
Tacoma Public Schools features a net work of three specialized high schools providing a wide range of students with an entirely unique high school experience. One that is dedicated to framing the system around the learner while emphasizing trusting relationships, authentic student interest, and the real-world application of learning, while also creating community connections and partnerships to […]
Turning Points: New Mental Models, New Learning Models
[…] civilization.” It was one of the first signals that every rule based procedure was being automated and that every sector was growing more complex. Seven years later, work in most sectors is done by diverse teams working on new problems using smart machines. While smart tools are producing valuable benefits, they accelerate inequity and, […]
Five Tips to Creating Equitable Learning Ecosystems
[…] school student in Denver, but when we first met her she was in 5th grade and contemplating where she wanted to go to middle school. Chiara’s dad works for a hospital that partners with our nonprofit organization, RESCHOOL, to offer its employees the benefit of advocates who support working parents to access and navigate […]
Community is Learning: How The Act of Learning is Rooted in Neighbors, Family and Place
[…] with the belief that not all answers lay in the west. My mother helped found a primary school in Eswatini (at the time Swaziland) and my father worked for the Basotho government helping to build out higher education programs. They were educators who were always seeking community and authenticity. These first seven years of […]
