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11 Lessons for Re-Imagining the Schooling Experience with Steve Shapiro

The Student-Centered Shift: Empowered International Schools and Classrooms Through Project-Based Learning

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The Most Memorable Experiences of a Teacher

As a student teacher, I basically said to my students in this school, what is it you want to know about? What in the world are you curious about? And kids broke into groups and started exploring things they were interested in. One thing that made a huge impression on me was during the homeless crisis of the 80s. They wanted to go to a homeless shelter one night but their parents had to take them and approve it. But when they came back,. they were like, whoa, like this was really different from most traditional classrooms. The kind of experiential learning is really different away from it being classroom based.

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