As we continue voicing our support for the National Writing Project (NWP) and calling on the federal government to restore the NWP’s funding in the next budget, I look forward to learning more from all of you about how the NWP has impacted your teaching and enlivened your students’ learning.
As I think about how best [...]
I wanted to share a few updates on our arts-infused work.
First, here’s an example of a completed citizen-artist project.
Here’s is the student’s writing about corporate citizenship – the student wrote about a video game production company as a citizen-artist.
Bioware Is a Canadian electronics company. It was founded In February of 1995 by Ray Muzyka, Greg [...]
We started our study of the Cold War last week with a video called “Pretty Much the Cold War.” Imagine Napoleon Dynamite narrating Dr. Strangelove and you get the picture.
After watching the video, students chose three Cold War topics to research and interrelate in a student-designed project.
What I love about student choice is that teachers [...]
My wife got a new bike last week, so we brought out the tricycle for our little girl, and I dusted off my circa 1991 Lance Mountain Powell Peralta skateboard for our son.
Without over-sharing, I’m amazed at how my son is learning skateboarding. Every time he falls, he gets back up. He picks [...]
This Monday we dedicated a station to analyzing our data from last week’s small-group gaming.
Students used a formula to determine each group’s live lost to levels won ratio.
Students analyzed the differences in observed and noted behaviors between the groups with the highest and lowest ratios.
Students analyzed their own behavior to see if it aligned more [...]
Chad teaches humanities at a charter school and blogs on reforming classroom practice and democratic education.
