It is almost 12 years to the day since I facilitated my first PBL workshop in China. The teachers in a gleaming Shanghai high school were smart and disciplined and eagerly asked questions. I loved the experience. Flash forward to 2024. Last week I visited Hangzhou for a PBL conference sponsored by the Zhejiang provincial […]
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Written by Reggie Ellison an 11th grade student at Napa New Technology High School. Introduction Living in Napa all my life, a city that is based on agriculture, I have seen first hand how much space we use to grow crops, as vineyards stretch across most of the valley. With the ever increasing rise
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Over the last nine months the blogs I’ve written for this space have focused on one topic: The need for teachers, administrators, parents, and students to become adept at using generative artificial intelligence to improve educational outcomes. We have explored the need to rewrite policy, revise curriculum standards, initiate professional development programs, amend definitions, adopt
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More than 30 years ago I entered the profession as a sixth-grade language arts and social studies teacher at a gritty middle school in Los Angeles. Since that time I have noticed a slow, relentless disempowering of teachers. Economics and technology as well as societal attitudes that have been in place for more than a
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Project Based Learning & ‘I Can…’ Statements In the realm of education, particularly in project-based learning, the clarity of goals and objectives plays a crucial role in guiding students towards success. This clarity is often best achieved through the use of “I Can” statements, a simple yet powerful tool that helps both educators and students
