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School-schools & learning-schools

So, the whole pitch idea and citizen-artist project a moving along okay. We’ve started with lots of interactive-notebook-like visualizations of concepts and terms related to citizenship and some initial analysis of Jacob Lawrence’s life and work. I think maybe this project will take longer than I thought and become more episodic. For example, every Friday [...]

¶ Posted 05 September 2010 † Chad § Blog post ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: Authentic engagement, Citizen-artists, Civics & economics, Education reform, Jacob Lawrence, Life is Beautiful, Monster, Nancy Farmer, School culture, Self-directed learning, Suzanne Collins, Teaching reading, The House of the Scorpion, The Hunger Games, Unit planning, Walter Dean Myers, Young adult lit

SPACE PANDA 2010

As I work on this year’s curriculum map, I’m trying to set up a learning space bounded by the minimum number of teacher-imposed, useful constraints necessary to promote student-directed democracy, community, and learning.
My map this year will look more course-specific than last year’s meta-map, which I think is still a useful model for project-based work. [...]

¶ Posted 02 July 2010 † Chad § Blog post ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: #abolishgrades, Atlassian Days, Classroom management, Coaching, Curriculum map, Dan Pink, Democratic education, Drive, Edmodo, Google time, Instructional technology, Monkseaton High School, Paul Kelly, Scratch, Self-directed learning, Spaced learning, Standards, Student discipline, Timely feedback, Useful constraints