She may be the granddaughter, niece, and daughter of a math teacher and the twin sister of a math/science-oriented brother, but Jennifer Donais, K-8 STEM Coach at Amesbury Public Schools in Amesbury, Massachusetts did not consider herself a “STEM […]
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Over the past two school years, educators, students, and their families have experienced learning and living in new ways. There have been many challenges that we have all faced in education. For some educators, it was a necessary push to take risks, […]
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It’s not often that students find themselves unable to move, caught in a state of disbelief at something they’ve just discovered. It’s even rarer that they sprint across the classroom to share their discoveries with their teachers and classmates. […]
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Both experiences can result in meaningful learning—but they aren’t created equal.
The terms “performance tasks” and “projects,” in the context of project-based learning (PBL), are familiar to today’s educators. Like fraternal siblings, they […]
In my first post in this series, “Why PBL is Key to Meeting Profile of a Graduate Goals” I argued that project-based learning is one of the most effective ways to build the student competencies commonly listed on graduate profiles. In the second post
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“Empathy—the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.”
—Oxford Languages
Recently, I attended and facilitated sessions at the Association for International Schools in Africa’s (AISA) annual conference. Educators across the continent […]
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No matter who you are or where you’re from, the past few years have done some damage. It’s by no means the same for all of us and I count myself as one of the fortunate ones in so many respects. Yet even as fortunate as I am, every once in a while I […]
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In my last post, “Why PBL is Key to Meeting Profile of a Graduate Goals” I made the case for using project-based learning to build the student competencies commonly listed on graduate profiles created by schools and districts. In this and two […]
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Does your school or district have a “profile of a graduate”? They’re also called “ideal graduate” descriptions, and you might have heard of a “learner profile” and the older term “school-wide outcomes.” It’s a vision of what a school or district […]
Now that the school year is in full swing, teachers may be starting to come up for air to look for new ideas to try in the classroom. It's always fun to kick off a new school year with a new method or a digital tool, but there are always many other […]
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