K-12 Learning with Projects & Service

Constructing Innovative Teaching

2008-09-06T15:35:00Z

Service Learning: Community Café The Community Café is a table-service soup kitchen that has served more than 15,000 meals to needy residents since December 2006. Kristen Allcorn founded the Café as part of a high school community service project. Project Based Learning: Digital-age projects give students room to follow their own interests. Elise Mueller is a Bellingham, Wash., teacher who seems to be in an ideal setting for project-based learning to thrive. She and two fellow elementary teachers...(read more)

Moving Forward: Rewiring K-12 Lessons

2008-09-05T04:14:00Z

This video clip is worth a view for three reasons minimum .... 1. You will know exactly what the financial commitment of politicians is today for K-12 education. 2. You will gain some ideas in designing K-12 lessons 3. Your ideas of what education "is" will be refreshed. Enjoy! Click here to view the YouTube video. Want Your Students To Increase Participation? Here's A Quick Way To Collaborate With K-12 Educators On Facebook....(read more)

Global Ed Village: International Perspectives on K-12 Education

2008-09-02T22:22:00Z

A different cut today at viewing K-12 education. Let’s take a look at what is in the international news: here and here .. After all, the world really is a global village. We need some earnest dialogues and efforts about sharing success of education with all countries. That will help shorten the learning curve and build a brighter future for the younger generations. If you are aware of any efforts and/or dialogues please tell me so I can follow them. Americans say U.S. schools don't teach needed skills...(read more)

Do You Find Yourself Saying: "I Wish I Knew How My Students Are Thinking?"

2008-09-01T15:57:00Z

Student feedback is essential for teachers to grasp the class knowledge and to determine the correct strategy for teaching. Taking that feedback personally can shatter or inflate an ego. Instead, look at the news objectively …. as sign posts on the road of improvement. Teachers, to excel, we need to know what methods and strategies to hang onto cause they work, and what to let go of. Our students are our best mechanism for understanding our teaching successes and/or gaps. Click here to watch this...(read more)

Enriching Education By Connecting K-12 Teachers

2008-08-31T15:45:00Z

Okay, I've taken the leap and started a group on Facebook: Quality K-12 Education: Taking the Next Steps . Yes, I did "do" some serious thinking about it but in the end, social media is what more students are interested in. Don't believe me? Ask your students how many have a page in Facebook and/or My Space. These outlets are here to stay. I am thinking it's time to harness a tool like this for teachers to band together. The purpose of my group is to provide information that includes current reports...(read more)

Spotlighting Innovative Strategies and Teachers

2008-08-30T16:29:00Z

Technology, Cross Curriculum Learning Such is life in Whyville, a Web-based virtual world that provides inquiry-based education for middle school students. Created by University of Texas professor Jim Bower -- a former professor at the California Institute of Technology and founder of CalTech's Pre-College Science Initiative -- Whyville looks and feels like a game to the kids who use it. For teachers, it is one more tool for delivering lessons in a package that delights their students. The EAST Initiative:...(read more)

Startling Facts - Real News - On High School Graduation

2008-08-28T20:03:00Z

"If three out of every 10 students in the nation failing to graduate is reason for concern, then the fact that just half of those educated in America’s largest cities are finishing high school truly raises cause for alarm. And the much higher rates of high school completion among their suburban counterparts – who may literally live and attend school right around the corner – place in a particularly harsh and unflattering light the deep undercurrents of inequity that plague American public education."...(read more)

A Secret to Building an Improved Learning Environment

2008-08-28T19:42:00Z

Students have stimulation form so many sources .... flashy billboards, television shows that carrying four plus character streams per episode, advertisements blitzing volumes of images in barely seconds, and so forth. They have so many choices, that's why as K-12 educators the key to capturing their attention is by relating the lesson material to their life. To obtain a free eReport with information about using Project Based and Service Based Learning in K-12 classes click here . Check out this current...(read more)

A Secret to Building an Improved Learning Environment

2008-08-28T19:20:00Z

Startling Facts - Real News - On High School Graduation

2008-08-28T18:51:00Z

Understand Learning Results ...In Less Than 10 Minutes

2008-08-28T18:50:00Z

I think everyone will agree that results are probably the key to understanding how effective K-12 education is or isn't. The question becomes what results need to be analyzed. How can we be sure the examination of performance provides valid and reliable data? That is to say, will the examination measure the same data each year again and do all participants have an equal opportunity? Here is a site, Measuring Up , that provides result data on every state for K-12 over a number of years on a variety...(read more)

Understand Learning Results ...In Less Than 10 Minutes

2008-08-28T18:30:00Z

The Powwer of Education

2008-08-17T14:42:00Z

High school must include teaching academic skills with life skills to students. But how does that translate to college? Well, take a gander at the links below. Herein lies the evidence that just having academic skills won’t cut it. Sure, they are a good start, but being successful in the projects described below means a student brings some quality life skills too. Examine Killer Bugs Students work in state-of-the-art labs to learn about infectious diseases. Working with Monkeys Work here has created...(read more)

The Power of Education

2008-08-17T14:35:00Z

Books & Laptops - tools that keep on giving

2008-08-11T13:57:00Z

As a former educator from an inner city high school, where students of less privilege are the majority, I have learned more about myself in four short years than I knew possible. At the same time, I discovered acres about smart kids in bad circumstances, the power of hope, along with streams about what to hang onto and what to let go of…. This last week I finished reading A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind. A truly remarkable story of a remarkable student … particular poignant for me as it brought...(read more)