Effective Scaffolding By: Riley Johnson- Originally posted at http://www.projectbasedliving.com with permission from Napa New Tech High School Principal Riley Johnson Effective scaffolding within project-based learning can be a tricky animal. Many times, we struggle finding the happy spot between a student-centered free for all and the worst monotonous traditional approach. The difficulty with scaffolding effectively […]
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5 Steps to Introduce Sustainable PBL Into Your Curriculum By Brad Sever Note– Blog post first posted by The Core Collaborative and reposted here with permission by partner and author Brad Sever. We would highly encourage the purchase of his newly released book “Sustainable PBL (Project Based Learning)” as his work aligns with our work
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Students Missing Work For many schools this time of year is when progress reports are due and parents are made aware of how their learner is doing in school. It is also a point in time when many students are aware of how many missing assignments show up on their reports. How we as educators
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The Project Holy Grail The holy grail of projects design is to have interdisciplinary projects where learners can see and uncover that content isn’t utilized in a silo. “In the real world” (as we often say) we don’t have set “math time” or “Social Studies” time, we use content knowledge interwoven throughout our day to
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PBL in a Public School One of the biggest misnomers about our work at New Technology High School is people understanding who we are. Locally, we struggle with people having a clear perception of what we do. We have heard New Tech High is: The small alternative school for weird students Only for students that
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