Place-Based Education
Place Based Education
The Trail to Recovery: Addressing Learning Gaps Through Project-Based Learning
Teachers need to address COVID-caused learning gaps through pedagogical approaches associated with high-quality project-based learning.
Difference Making
Nalukai Academy: Harvesting Hawai’i’s Next Generation of Leaders
Whether the goal is to move off of the islands or lay roots in Hawaiʻi, Nalukai Academy prepares its youth for an entrepreneurial future that will lead to stewardship and a positive impact on their community.
Place Based Education
Town Hall Recap: Every Place is a Place
On this monthly town hall, we went long on place-based education and the ways in which it is a powerful tool for building community and inquiry. We also discussed the ways in which community-connected projects are an outstanding way to continue learning through the summer and beyond.
Difference Making
Dive Into a Virtual Ocean and Three Other Ways Young People Can Experience the Wonder of the World This Earth Day
Chief Education Officer of National Geographic, Vicki Phillips, explores the ways to engage with the planet from wherever you are this Earth Day.
Difference Making
Children’s Books That Focus on Climate Activists Help Us Appreciate Our Planet on Earth Day and Beyond
For Earth Day, the Getting Smart team's families reviewed a few Earth and climate-themed kids books.
Future of Learning
The Story of Transforming A System: Spring Grove Schools
By: Gina Meinertz. Globally, school systems are in need of shifting power, practices, and tradition to a more student-centered learning model.
Future of Learning
New Changemaking Strategy Energizes Real World Learning in Kansas City
The Real World Learning Initiative is centered around value community-connected projects, internships, entrepreneurial experiences, college credit, and industry-recognized credentials supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, in an effort to mobilize regional high school transformation.
Future of Learning
Transforming the Landscape of Education
By: Matt Piercy. The future of learning is all about options with greater access and equity. Matt shares how MYX offers an exploratory semester full of unique place-based learning.
Green Schools
Green School Infuses Nature-Based Learning For Sustainable Education
Green School incorporates ‘nature-based learning’ model - focused on ‘local to global’ - as means of developing sustainable educational experiences and planet.
Personalized Learning
A Platform to Support Competency-Based PBL
It’s hard to support and manage project-based learning in a competency-based environment. In this post, Erik Day shares a look at a platform designed to help.