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…
Category: Reflection
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…
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…
Today, the COW All Design Team held a meeting at Windsor High School. Part of our time together was spent hearing from each of the unit teams and giving some feedback based on what we heard. You can review that entire pile of feedback and…
To reflect is to pause, to take a moment to check in with yourself to see how, or what, or why, you’re doing what it is that you’re doing. When you reflect, you’re considering where you’ve been, where you are, and where you might go.…
When we started this project, the leadership team identified six core principles that should live in whatever curriculum resources emerged from the work. They are these: Creation (media creation) products authentic to me, to others, and using real world tools. Reflection Empathy Perspective Taking Collaboration…