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Fifth grade teacher Linda Amici's most 'dreaded standards' became her favorite after making one simple shift.... She turned them over to her students. With this new agency, students worked harder than they ever had before. Learn about Linda'
How do you design learning in your classroom/school? Imagine inviting student input on everything from the way the timetable is organized, to the design of learning experiences, even to how they are assessed and evaluated. That's the kind o
What is deep learning? Is it students engrossed in semester long units or learning experiences? Inquiring, probing, investigating, and making meaning of their learning. Perhaps. But most of us don't have that kind of time, or freedom with our
Imagine a school where you take your shoes off every time you enter the classroom. You shared the space with local bugs, insects, bees, and biodiversity surrounding you. You rode a bus to school powered by used vegetable oil. The curriculum was
How do we EMPOWER our SEN learners? What if by accomodating for their unique needs, we were able to create a more student-centered environment for ALL learners? Provided alternative methods of assessment. Allowed for hands-on projects. Built
How do we cultivate and unleash student creativity in our classrooms? Right now it's happening on the peripheries. In makerspaces, STEM projects, electives, and arts/music/drama classes. But how do we make creativity a core part of day to day l
How do we EMPOWER adolescent learners? Anyone who works with this age group, knows that they have a unique set of needs. Adolescent learners have unique needs for increased social connections, purpose, autonomy, ownership, and real-world purpo
Taking the first steps 👣 into design project-based experiences can be a scary thought for a lot of teachers... It certainly was for me. How will I ensure students acquire the mandated curriculum? Assess learning? Where will I find the time to
What if you could re-imagine schooling to be student-centered? Build from the ground up? That's what Connect Academy did when it was given carte blanche to re-imagine schooling for students in the Poway District. It re-imagined: How we organi
How are you finishing off the semester before Winter Break? While many classrooms finish with final exams, as learner-centered practitioners, we understand that it's far more POWERFUL to let our students share their learning. Public Exhibitio
How do we better include learners and learning profiles often left behind in traditional settings? What if we could custom-fit learning experiences around their unique strengths, gifts, capabilities and needs? What if understanding the brain's
How much voice and ownership do you provide students in their learning journey? I understand the fears the fears of inviting too much input: What if students go in a direction I can’t support? Steer too far away from mandated curriculum? Deci
There are several skills that are hard to build in students within the walls of a classroom. Skills like leadership, community building, survival, mentorship, global citizenship, and expedition planning. On expeditions outside of the classroom
Designing a learner-centered experience isn't that complicated. It requires only a few shifts in the way we currently design projects, units, and lessons. Building a learner-centered environment to allows the experience to fly? That takes year
AI is here. And while many schools are still wrapping their heads around how to best use it, some classrooms are already using it to enhance learning experiences. Whether that's in animating student written memoirs; or acting as a co-pilot in
What happens when we co-design learning experiences with our students? Give them choice over the product they create. Questions they pursue. Teammates they assemble. This was Maheen's big pondering when she began sharing ownership of PBL exper
We talk a lot about tips, strategies, frameworks, and components of project-based experiences, but we don't talk a lot about mindsets. How do you develop the mindsets that allow for creativity, agility, uncertainty, and experiences that move
As an edu-transformer, if someone asked you point blank, what are the top 10 ways to re-imagine the schooling experience, what would you tell them? That's what I asked longtime experiential educator, innovator, school designer, podcaster and p
Why do we still use traditional transcripts to report on learning? As if academic marks are all that matter. Transcripts don't tell the story of a learner's strengths, special talents, competencies, certifications, or skills. Or their abilitie
As learner-centered practitioners, I imagine we are all firm believers in the benefits, and postive outcomes project-based experiences have on our students. But what about our learners? Do they feel the same way? In this short podcast interview
What do all of these assessments have in common? 💡 A field guide to the of the local flora and fauna in the region. 💡 A community garden. 💡 A recipe book for healthy meals using only 5 ingredients. 💡 A tourist handbook of the ‘hidden gems’
Why do we grade students? Is it to measure and evaluate learning? Provide students an incentive to do their work? Reflect the ‘rigour’ of our classroom? Research shows that grades don’t accomplish any of these things. What if there was a bet
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have become a focal point for many schools. But few are taking real ACTION on a local level to make these goals become a reality. What would happen if we shifted the focus away from seemingly out of
It's not unusual to find MakerSpaces popping up on several school campuses as a way to offer students hands on learning opportunities. But does 'making' have to be confined to the MakerSpace for only a few classes per week? What would happen i
It's easy in project-based experiences to get caught up in the shiny final 'product' at the end. But just like the tip of an iceberg, the product is only a small part of a much deeper PROCESS of learning taking place underneath. How do we captu
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