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Culture Cornucopia

Designed as inquiry, investigation, then creation, this learning experience gives learners an opportunity to discover and understand how...

Stop Motion Summaries

Take writing summaries to a whole new level! Consider having your kids produce stop motion summaries, giving them the opportunity to...

Digital Age Skill: Create Video Tutorials

Have your learners be online content creators and contribute to others by teaching them how to write and produce video tutorials. 1...

Create. Design. Build. A Maker’s Showcase.

Students become designers and engineers by trying different design challenges based on STEM subjects of interest. #STEMchallenge...

What Bugs Me? A Design Thinking Lesson

Design thinking is a buzz word right now in education. It is a creative skill set/mindset that every child should learn and practice. Not...

Engage the Imagination

I’m fairly convinced that all high school students are brilliant in their own unique way. Maybe not in obvious ways like an IQ score,...

Interview Your Students

Not long ago, I asked a few students the question, “What do you like about school?” A chair, a camera and a conversation. I was fully...

“Would You Teach Me, Please?

My morning was typical. Quick meetings, delivering completed items on my to do list, connecting with teachers on needs for the day. Total...

Foundations for “Re”

For the past several months, I’ve had the privilege of being part of an amazing team of innovative educators who are in the process of...

The Recess Report #28daysofwriting

I’m passionate about teaching students to tell story. Not just story in terms of “once upon a time” but more about the stories that are...

A Sound Exploration

Today I facilitated three breakout sessions with Studio Two (second grade) on sound and circuits using the MaKey MaKey and the online...

EPiC Elementary and Project Bright Spots

For the month of September, EPiC was invited to participate in Project Bright Spots, a collaborative platform created by The Lean Lab (an...

The Workshop Model Redesigned

I’ve been thinking about the workshop model in light of today’s learner, specifically the self-directed learner in a personalized...

Unpacking the Standards *WITH* Our Students

I realize standards are not going anywhere. At least not for now, even as we continue to venture into the wild frontier of the “21st...

Creative Collaboration

Collaboration is a huge buzz word in education today. Well, actually, it has been for quite awhile. I remember going to “cooperative...

Every Person Inspired to Create

“They say” that hindsight is 20/20. We are suddenly in the know because we have moved forward, and we have had time to reflect and...

Cultivating Designers

Once we had created our rockets, we walked from CAKC to Barney Allis Plaza and with the wonderful surprise audience of CAKC...

Creative Environments

As an educator, I have always steered clear of using teachery/stock curriculum in the classroom. I learned long ago that the more organic...

Story is Everywhere.

Story. I think this is one of the greatest and most profound words in our culture. Story is everywhere–our neighborhood, our city, our...

Research as a Creative Process

Our learning journey began last September when my students expressed interest in researching a topic of their choice. As I thought...

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