In this podcast, I talk with Jamie, who shares her experience teaching and celebrating the Unearthing Humanity project, and what it felt like to “put her classroom on display” by inviting the community to see a representation of her students’ thinking and learning in the…
Compose Our World Posts
In today’s Windsor Now, James Redmond features Janelle Duvall’s experiences working with the Compose Our World team as she explores new ways of approaching essential skills with her students. Here’s a short excerpt: When the process started the concept felt different enough to be confusing…
By Rebecca G. Kaplan On March 9th, preservice teachers, professors, researchers, parents, and friends all packed into a presentation room inside the School of Education at the University of Colorado to watch the premier of the Olde Columbine High School English Language Arts class documentary…
Back in December, one of our team leaders was interviewing some students about their experiences in a Compose Our World PBL-based classroom. The students had just completed some work in the Unearthing Humanity project, a project that helps students explore what it means to be human…
I’ve been wrestling with a design challenge for one of our projects. I’m wondering if you can help. The Origin of a Design Challenge: Pulling back the curtain on Compose Our World, it is thrilling that—over the past year and a half—we’ve had the privilege…
By Rebecca G. Kaplan A good meal is a response to what’s in the fridge and who’s sitting at the table. Adaptation matters – in cooking AND in teaching and learning. Even our favorite recipes require flexibility depending on the stove, the pots, and the…
There’s much to say about the learning we did together at the Lucas Education Research Fall 2016 Colloquium – but I just wanted to take a quick moment to share a piece of media those of us here made together today. Several of us spent…
In my last blog post I wrote about how attending to relationships and the emotional cues therein are the cornerstone for implementing accessible project based learning. But, how can teachers systematically attend to relationships in ways that explicitly inform their practice? Is there a science…