Popular Tag: Project-based learning

April 22, 2016

Earth Day is year-round in our network!

Earth Day is an annual event celebrated around the world to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It was first celebrated in 1970, and is now celebrated in more than 193 countries each yea…
Leap Year: advance to prevent falling behind

February 29, 2016

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…
What is project-based learning?

February 19, 2016

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…

January 6, 2016

48 hours to change the world

“What have you learned from this project?” “I learned that I can change the world.” That was the exchange between a visitor to our school and a student she was questioning as he and h…

July 15, 2015

Industry Day connects teachers and coffee

What could education and coffee have in common? I thought about this question in preparation for my visit to S&D Coffee and Tea during last month's STEM Industry Day. After speaking with p…

July 13, 2015

Translating PBL for younger classrooms

Instructional Coach Dan Miller wrote last month about the value of taking risks in the classroom. Powerful teaching and learning sometimes demands that we step out of what's comfortable to do what is …

January 28, 2015

Why engage students in creating?

You've probably heard of the Maker Movement in recent years. With articles like “Maker Movement Conquers the Classroom” and TED talks like “We are Makers,” it is hard to deny that making is th…