Jan
09
2012
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Tweenteacher Class on Project Based Writing

Hey all, Guess what?  I'm going to be facilitating a class for Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach's Powerful Learning Practice.  The six-week course is on Project Based Writing, a strategic way to bring in authentic assessments and meaningful learning into any Language Arts program, ...
Sep
24
2011
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Teaching the Executive Summary: Applying Real Life to School Life

OK, so there they are: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. They are in your audience and have their checkbooks out looking for a new cause to fund. Will it be yours? So began my schpeel on writing an Executive ...
Sep
18
2011
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DARPA project con’t: Research and Questioning

As my readers may know, my students are planning for the future of the human species. This year, as I have described in an earlier post, I am dedicating much of the year to Project-Based Learning and trying to ...
Sep
06
2011
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The Power of Teaching Something You Know Nothing About

This year, I have decided to teach solely in Project-Based Writing. I’m defining Project-Based Writing as a series of constructed units built around authentic assessment, authentic audience, and authentic learning that incorporates the multiple writing genres. That ...
Jun
29
2010
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Picking a Start of the Year Project for PBL

So just as school started to wrap up, I decided that at the start of next year, we would be picking a local cause and trying to solve it. Now, I was entertaining the thought that the kids would ...
Jan
10
2010
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How do we “Fix the Schools?”

Ellen Berg, my colleague in The Teacher Leaders asked this very simple question the other day. I had so much fun in answering and I believe so deeply in the power of this simple question that I wanted to ...
Nov
16
2008
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CUE 2009

I have two sessions that I will be presenting at CUE in March this year.  I thought I'd share a little of what I sent to them to give you a little preview of what I'm going to be talking ...

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