Curiosity Led Learning
Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) is an instructional practice applicable in any area in which critical thinking is supported. There are many different models and levels of inquiry. The common thread is …
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Leap Year: advance to prevent falling behind
Nearly every four years, we add an extra day to the calendar in the form of February 29, also known as Leap Day. Put simply, these additional 24 hours are built into the calendar to ensure that it sta…
Graduating students college and career ready: The Education and Workforce Innovation Fund
To prepare a workforce in a thriving community, collaborative partnerships for sharing information and resources must exist between schools, institutes of higher education, and businesses and industri…
What is project-based learning?
It was the presence of disenchanted learners that started the Project-Based Learning (PBL) movement in the 1960s (Barrows, 1996; Neville, 2009). PBL allows students to move away from passively listeni…
ISTG | SISTEM one-on-one from Raleigh, North Carolina with Mr. David Schwenker, Principal of Wake STEM Early College High School (ECHS)
As the principal at Wake STEM Early College High School (ECHS), Mr. David Schwenker is bringing with him over 20 years of school leadership experience in cutting edge educational settings. He began hi…
Our grandchildren’s watershed
Tri-County Early College High School is an NC New Schools/Breakthrough Learning network school.
As an Early College science teacher, I strive to use a variety of researched-based approaches to teach …
Recognizing sustainable innovation in schools
How do you define innovation?
This is a question that comes up a lot in my work as an Education Innovation Specialist, but it is not one with a straightforward answer. Education innovation by its …
Is Curiosity Dead? Sparking student interest through better questions
Christie Wuebbles, a math teacher at Wallace-Rose Hill High School in Duplin County, began using project-based learning (PBL) to teach her math classes last year. She expected this approach would …
