You Say You Want a Revolution? In this action-packed eight-week project, students used primary and secondary resources …
Superheroes Unite! The Superhero project explored what superhero qualities each student possessed and how …
Staircases to Nowhere Seniors used physics, art, and carpentry to plan and build model and life-sized …
Who Walks Here: The Journey of Our People and Our Land The Who Walks Here project came from the teachers’ passion for nature and wanting our …
The Bee Project Why do we need honey bees and how do they affect our world? In order to answer these …
Wat_er We Doing? A California Drought Story In this project students worked together to make a documentary about the current …
Portraits of Resilience “We learn a lot about the challenges and problems in the world, but what about how …
Best Project of All Time Using time as a theme, in this project we explored the mathematical concepts of …
3D Printed Timeline Ninth grade students in the MPX Program at Mid-Pacific Institute created a timeline of …
The Wicked Soap Company Students learned about saponification, chemical reactions, pH, strong bases, lab …
The Lantern Project In this project, the entire 6th grade learned about geometry, unit rate, expenses and …
Every Classroom Should Be A Maker Space Early on, I held up published books ranging from 50 to approximately 150 pages. “This…
Creativity Is A Decision Anyone Can Make How can we encourage students to decide for creativity? Students develop creativity not…
Writing “Downtown”: Student Voice in Teaching Writing Like my students must do in their writing, I must attend to my audience. Using what I…
When Exhibition Might Not Be Enough On the day of our second school-wide exhibition last year, a student’s words nearly…
Other People’s Children Are My Children To be clear, this is NOT a guide, and I do NOT have all the answers, or any answer for…
Breadth And Depth: Can We Have It Both Ways? That led us to give a talk about breadth and depth. I advocated for depth; she for…
Issue 14: Fall 2015 Four of our contributors reflect on the impact of student-teacher relationships and the importance of honoring student voice and building trust in order to create that safe space needed for students to take risks and grow.
Thank You Tiger! My Teacher Wake Up Call His dad had told him that he’d have a job with him as a bricklayer on the building…
Roland Barthes’ Mythologies In 1957, an extraordinary work of literature was published detailing concepts far ahead …
Colonies, Clusters, and Classrooms? Students researched a variety of animal communities through fieldwork, experts, …