P in PBL as Place, People, Purpose and Partnership w/ Dr. Jane Shore

What if before developing 'Projects' we first built Partnerships? Connected students with real People? Became more familar with our Place? Purpose?

This is what Dr. Jane Shore, Director of Community Partnerships at the Revolution School advocates for in her unique version of 'PBL.' 

Learn more about how she co-creates this space with learners and how to seamlessly: 

• Build partnerships with your own community
• Co-create curriculum with key community partners
• Engage students in learning experiences that connect them to place and purpose
• Attract the right kind of teachers (or as she calls 'unicorn ninjas') to facilitate the process

Learn more about Jane's work: schoolofthought.substack.com  , revolutionschool.org  

Connect with Jane: Twitter: @shorejaneshore, LinkedIn: @jane-r-shore

Fill out the Interest form for the global PBL community: https://forms.gle/WUqKY3ex8Yy4m9kb7 

Jane's Bio: 

Dr. Jane Shore is a corner sitter, energized by the perspectives gained at the intersections between research & practice, school & community, learning & leading, data & visuals. Jane loves to co-design and explore answers to research questions that cross boundaries like, “How might we meaningfully capture the impact of hard to measure things?”As a member of the founding team at a place-based, progressive high school in Philadelphia called Revolution School, Jane serves as the Director of Community Partnerships and Research. She loves connecting and building community, especially with and for young people. She is on a mission to open pathways between schools and communities so that the change-making things young people can do now. Her latest obsession is creating hand drawn visualizations representing research and stories. In her work, she has the desire, as @monachalabi puts it, “to take the numb out of numbers.” You can find them in her School of Thought blog, where she takes big evidence ideas and makes them usable. schoolofthought.substack.com She holds a doctorate in Bilingual Special Education from George Washington University, where she was a Title IV bilingual fellow, and a Master’s in Applied Linguistics from Georgetown University. She loves hiking, ocean swimming, and picnic foods. She lives in Philadelphia (and occasionally Massachusetts) with her husband, Walker, their two boys, Avery and Beckett. She just illustrated her first children's book, Imagine Song, with author Melissa Campesi.