Making Learning Relevant for the Whole Child
21st century skills development can offer new platforms for students to explore through project-based learning, to integrate the use of real world information, and apply newly acquired knowledge and skills to address the most pressing problems of our time; the very challenges our young people are already engaged in and will need to solve for us and for future generations.
Encourage and Ensure Engagement
To many students, school is just a place they go. How do we create engaging learning experiences that make school more personal for them?
The Academic Service-Learning Answer to Student Engagement
Service-learning engages students in powerful ways, helping them to increase their academic engagement and performance, civic engagement and social-emotional learning.
Best Questions: Engaging Learning Strategies
Our culture relentlessly pursues achievement at the moment. What could happen if, instead, we relentlessly pursued learning?
Keeping It Real: Giving Students Opportunities to Extend and Apply Their Knowledge with Authentic Tasks
Teachers now have a context for using the 'notable nine' categories of teaching strategies and can apply them purposefully as they assess, teach, and mentor their students.
How Project-Based Learning Educates the Whole Child
Project-based learning is built on the same foundation as whole child education. Inquiry into adolescent mental health, youth development, and developmental psychology has revealed the three core conditions required for young people to develop a 'drive and thrive' outlook that leads to successful adulthood.
Project-Based Learning and Common Core Standards
States and professional development organizations recognize that the kind of transformative professional preparation necessary to meet the challenge of teaching the new standards is not yet in place. But for those teachers and schools who want to jump start the process, a solution is already in place: Project-based learning.
Ensuring Critical Thinking in Project-Based Learning
Project-based learning can create engaging learning for all students, but that depth of learning requires careful, specific design. Part of this engagement is the element of critical thinking.
Free Webinar: Designing Learning Activities in a Standards-Based System
Many teaching practices are "inherited" from previous generations of teachers, but not all of these fit well into a standards-based system that requires all parts of the learning process to be aligned with those standards.
Tell the President What You Know (and He Doesn't)
Tell Washington leaders to focus on what really matters -- our children's long-term futures -- by creating a President's Cou
