Gotta Be In It To Win It
Update 11/6/14: KI Furniture has released our commercial! We always encourage our students to take a risk, but when is the last time you took a risk for them? With them? As I’ve started to...
View ArticleThe Skills to Pay the Bills
Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them...
View ArticleThe Impact of Passion-Based Learning A Year Later
This time last year, my students took the stage to talk about their yearlong Passion-Based Learning assignment: the Be About It project. In just a few weeks, some of those students will hit the stage...
View ArticleISTE, A Reflection
With ISTE behind us, it’s fun to reflect on the event that was. I think my ISTE style is unique; I don’t attend sessions. The older I get, the less I can sit still. For me, ISTE is about making new...
View ArticleFirst Reflection From The Innovation Labs
We are about a month into Innovation Lab, and even though that may sound like a lot, I only see each class once a week for an hour. In all, since we’ve had some days off since the start of school, I’ve...
View ArticleEvolving Our Makerspace: An EdCorp Designing for Slack
When I got to Fair Haven two years ago, I started our version of a makerspace called The Innovation Lab. In The Innovation Lab, we use design thinking to make for others as we expose kids to computer...
View ArticleEvolving our Makerspace: 3 Lessons Learned Designing for Slack
The Slack Design Challenge continues! If you haven’t been following my last few posts, I have decided to take entrepreneurship in our makerspace, called The Innovation Lab (under construction), to the...
View ArticleThe Struggle is Real (Learning)
At FH Gizmos, our 6th grade edcorp, our slogan is your problem is our project. It turns out, however, that our own problems turn into our projects, too. Over a year ago, FH Gizmos was hired by Slack to...
View Article5 Ways I’ve Redesigned My Rubric And You Should Too
In Fair Haven Innovates, students from 4th to 8th grade follow the same design process. They use our design process to solve problems, create solutions, and turn these solutions into real products that...
View ArticleWhat Student Passion Looks Like
In my Fair Haven Innovates program, I use social entrepreneurship to help expose students to design, computer science, engineering, and the digital arts while also helping them develop their soft...
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