Curriculum
Diplomacy, policy, and governance today requires understanding the intricacies of national origins.
Diplomacy, policy, and governance today requires understanding the intricacies of national origins. What would a nation look like if the relative influence of its founders — or the actions of pivotal leaders along the way — varied from the course of events we recognize as history? High school students tackle a PBL addressing this theme applied to Modern Israel.
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Chuteless Skydiver? Artist? Tech Guru? Kid personalities inform how to best teach them coding.
Knowing the personalities of your young coders — from the chuteless skydiver to the angst-ridden artist — is the first step toward creating positive instructional experiences in computer science.
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Seniors giving their culminating Egg Crash Helmet presentation.
Conducting their problem-solving in an applied context showed students that computing a final velocity or a “delta t” is not the end of a problem, but the beginning of a solution – the solution to protecting heads from crash injuries.
Read MoreThe decline of civics education, coupled with the ability of unchecked social media communications to make every voice count – regardless of whether that voice is researched and reasoned or not — is undermining our democracy.
Read MoreHuman capital matters. Showcase your teachers to parents, and potential parents, frequently.
Read MoreWhat if history were taught not as a series of static facts imbuing its learners with “knowledge,” but as a collection of information and interconnections which can be reshuffled and replayed to provide insights and inform strategies relevant to today’s world?
Read More"How did woolly mammoths go extinct?" Examining the delicate balance of life in the most recent ice age, middle schoolers engage in systems modeling, using STELLA software, to understand interacting variables and their impacts on the fate of the mammoths.
Read More“It seems obvious how abstracting the game can lead to me building a soccer app, or even writing control code for a soccer-playing robot." — Leanne
Read MoreWhat emerged from the Cold War -- an automated, industrialized, top-down approach to teaching and learning -- is opposite the inventive, progressive environments we embrace in all other facts of life from business to entertainment. You can't create new ideas if you're constantly herded back to the beaten path.
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