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Difference Making
Why Your Community Needs an Environmental Sustainability Coordinator
This Seed To Table program offered in a southern California school demonstrates the potential of compelling community-connected learning.
Project-Based Learning
Why Schools Should Promote Applied Learning
By: Mark Siegel. Schools should promote applied learning—learning through experience—to help students develop transferable problem-solving skills. Here’s how.
Difference Making
24 Goals to Save the Planet (+1 in Case We Don’t)
Studying the Global Goals students can develop leadership and problem-solving skills, and identify how they can become difference makers.
Future of Learning
Real World Learning at Dubiski Career High School
CTE-focused high schools like Dubiski Career High School create career pathways through industry-specific academies, internships and entrepreneurship opportunities.