Education for Well-being Education as if people and the planet mattered

I love alternative assessments because generally, they are an alternative to crappy assessments. And more often than not, they measure qualities that we claim actually matter. One that sticks in my mind, although I forget who gave it, (Bill Gross at Idealab?) was to give prospective employees a set of obscure hand tools and ask [...]

I guess one of the few good things about the world having many problems is that it gives teachers many options to choose from when looking for engaging projects. It is hoped, through this project, that students will learn valuable information literacy skills, mathematics, science, political science, writing….and very importantly: that they can be agents [...]