Where to Start with Re- Designing Your Space

So where do you start in re-envisioning or modifying your learning spaces? Start by bringing in stakeholders across your community. Uncover their shared values for learning spaces by discussing their (s) specific needs. Distribute pictures of several innovative spaces...
How to Master PBL in 5 steps

How to Master PBL in 5 steps

For as long as I can remember, I was really good at school. Not because I fully understood the concepts, but because I was REALLY GOOD at playing the game. I knew all the rules. ‘Fold your hands nicely.’ ‘Do all your homework.’ ‘Get the...
Two simple strategies for school transformation

Two simple strategies for school transformation

The Wright Brothers were the greatest innovators the world has ever known. Period. I know that’s a bold claim, but let me explain why… Back in 1903 the race was on all around the world to invent the first plane that could fly. In the engineering of the...
“What’s in our water?” Use the world as your classroom.

“What’s in our water?” Use the world as your classroom.

Leaning over the banks of the Wenyu River, students carefully lower their water collection devices, created last week as part of an innovative design challenge to collect water samples. Some manage to collect surface water, while other devices plunge deep in the abyss...