As I dive back into my imperfect journey of writing, I will attempt to capture a shift in learning that I hope all of you experience as soon as possible. If you have already experienced it, I encourage you to recreate it or hand your students the […]
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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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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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Imagine you’re a middle school student sitting in science class. Which of the following two scenarios would engage you the most? Which would ignite your curiosity and cause you to ask questions?