This year, I was very lucky to have the opportunity to teach entrepreneurship. I used the opportunity to experiment and reflect on proficiency-based assessment as it relates to project-based learning. The driving question for this semester long course was what businesses make the best Shark Tank pitches? This overarching idea was broken into four parts. I developed a learning scale …
Four strategies for increasing student engagement
If you are someone who thinks kids should just suck it up and do school because it’s just part of the process, you won’t want to read this post. I believe every kid deserves to have meaningful school experiences. I think that it is entirely possible that we have no clue what these kids are going to need to know …