Literacy in PBL

Literacy in PBL

Reading with purpose Writing to learn Writing to demonstrate learning Engaging in academic discourse Noting observations Because PBL stresses having students engage as and with experts in the field, CTL’s content literacy framework lends itself to supporting students...
Questioning: Is Teaching a Science or an Art?

Questioning: Is Teaching a Science or an Art?

Recently I recorded and posted a great Google Hangout on our YouTube channel with Jill Ackers of the Dallas Spanish House in which we explored project based learning in her elementary and pre-K Spanish immersion school. One of the things we touched on was how...
Advice from Authentic Learning and PBL Experts

Advice from Authentic Learning and PBL Experts

As Google Hangouts on Air has evolved it’s become a great tool to curate and share learning. I’ve certainly enjoyed the live panel discussions I’ve done around the Next Generation Science Standards and Literacy for 21st Century Learners pulling...

Was Life in the Middle Ages Really a Fairy Tale?

Guest Blogger Stella Baker is an English Language Arts teacher at Owsley County Middle School. She has been teaching in Kentucky schools for 29 years. Over that period of time she has taught a variety of subjects and grade levels, but has always returned to middle...
Authentic and Project Based Learning

Authentic and Project Based Learning

The Collaborative for Teaching and Learning had its inception in 1994 as a public-private partnership aimed at equipping Kentucky elementary teachers to implement the primary program, a key provision of the Kentucky Education Reform Act. The primary program grouped...