We've Learned to Live in the Moment The last two years were clearly the most challenging I can recall in my 30 years in education. Facing a global pandemic, educators…
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How summer internships are impacting Seattle youth I took an incredible journey last week. I sat in a gondola beneath a giant stratospheric weather balloon, soaring upward, higher and higher, until…
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One of the most challenging pieces that comes with adulthood is busyness. Whenever I talk with my friends or family and ask “how’s life?” one answer very likely to come…
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Summer 2018 was a Busy Summer of Professional Learning - For us and our teachers! The practices of rigorous project-based learning and the skills and dispositions necessary for students to…
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My colleague at Educurious, Jenny Aguilar asked me to write a blog post for our new website. The questions she asked me were, “What is project-based learning? And why is…
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“I will remember how to look at different perspectives and consider what people want.” - 7th grade student, Showalter Middle School, Tukwila, WA “What we did was a real-life situation and…
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“As teachers, we need to free our young people from the crippling idea that they must not fail, that they cannot mess up, that only some students can be good…
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A key characteristic of rigorous project-based learning is the exhibition. In the Educurious world, this may not be a live event but could be that students post their projects on…
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