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Personal stories about how educators are bringing the real world into classrooms.

Shifting Mindset: You Don’t Need to be the "Sage on the Stage"

2/17/2022

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First, let’s discuss what the “Sage on the Stage” is and what this looks like in a K-12 classroom. When I was a student, I assumed my teacher knew everything. And I mean, everything. I suppose as a kid we assume that our parents and other adults are the holders of knowledge and they will impart their wisdom on us when we are old enough to understand and retain that information. To some extent, this is true. Our parents and other adults teach us how to walk, talk, and interact with the world by modeling that behavior for us. As children, we are taught right from wrong, right from left, and how to write and read.
This doesn’t mean that the adults in our lives know everything. But we are often convinced that they do when we are young because someone with the ability to teach us how to tie our shoes and do simple arithmetic must also know everything else about the world to be able to teach it. ​
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What the heck is project-based learning?

1/20/2022

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That's exactly what I asked myself when I was asked to start my student teaching at a project-based learning school. Project-based learning (or PBL for short) is a method of teaching that allows for multiple access points for diverse student learners. It's pretty much that simple. Depending on the school or method of instructional practice, PBL comes in all shapes and sizes. I'm going to share my version of project-based learning with you.

Through the project launch, students become initially engaged in the overall problem or question being addressed by the project and then work in collaborative teams to design and iterate solutions through feedback and refinement. The focus for project-based learning is on skill mastery through deep dives instead of broad content coverage. In true project-based learning environments, students are thirsty for more information and will even ask the teacher to provide more information in order to complete a task. This can be an authentic inquiry moment or pre-planned by Jedi mind tricking kids into asking you to teach them content.

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Lab to Table: The Future of Agriculture Immersed with Project-Based Learning

1/14/2022

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Guest Blogger: Stephanie Klixbull, M.Ed.
Stephanie is an Elementary STEM education specialist from Summerville, South Carolina. During her time as a teacher, Stephanie received multiple prestigious awards such as Teacher of the Year for the state of South Carolina Independent Schools, 2019 and an International STEM education award for her STEM curriculum for early childhood education. Recently, Stephanie has left the classroom to complete a fellowship with the Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator program with the Department of Defense in Washington D.C. 
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The power of speech is amazing. Someone else's words can uplift you or give you the motivation to make a difference. For me, I was inspired by a TED Talk at an educational conference. The first words from the speaker told the truth about our produce in our grocery stores. He said, “Did you know that the average apple at the grocery store is anywhere from 6-14 months old from the time it was picked off a tree.” At that moment, I was hooked. I kept listening and I couldn’t believe the engrossing facts about our food. In fact, I didn’t want to believe it and so I did my research. Sure enough, the presenter was right. 

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