What does it take to create a school where teachers love to teach and students love to learn?
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Modeling Mammoth Extinction
"How did woolly mammoths go extinct?" Examining the delicate balance of life in the most recent ice age, middle schoolers engage in systems modeling, using STELLA software, to understand interacting variables and their impacts on the fate of the mammoths.
Read MoreLeanne's Soccer Abstraction
“It seems obvious how abstracting the game can lead to me building a soccer app, or even writing control code for a soccer-playing robot." — Leanne
Read MoreKids, not Widgets
What emerged from the Cold War -- an automated, industrialized, top-down approach to teaching and learning -- is opposite the inventive, progressive environments we embrace in all other facts of life from business to entertainment. You can't create new ideas if you're constantly herded back to the beaten path.
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