Recently I had the opportunity to record a Google Hangout with Jill Ackers, Primary School Director at the Spanish House in Dallas, TX, about the startup of her PBL Spanish immersion elementary and preschool. I’m excited to add this conversation to our Project Based Learning playlist.
We know that for students to be ready for the complexity of college and career texts, all students need opportunity to closely read literary and informational complex texts with appropriate and necessary scaffolding.
The National Adolescent Literacy Coalition (NALC) recently announced that CTL’s Ashley Perkins has been named to serve on its steering committee.
If we want to foster innovative thought, adaptability and complex problem solving on the part of our students, we need to engage them in activities that develop these various abilities.
When someone asks me why the arts are important to learning, I usually respond by describing my own experience in using the arts to excite learners. One such experience follows. Here is the scene: A narrow, windowless room in an urban middle school, with twelve desks and twelve teenage bodies that don’t quite fit sitting in them.
