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The student feedback showed us kids felt respected when we gave them the choice of how to learn.
We also noticed they started developing unique and personal ways to decide what to learn, when, and how.
A good teacher inspires, captivates, and gets kids to think by sharing profound knowledge and perfectly crafted questions. A bad teacher is boring and so the information she presents seems irrelevant and meaningless.
as a parent, my biggest takeaway is this: my child will learn more and perform better in school
if he has a lot of knowledge to begin with.
Learning begins with curiosity. When a person genuinely has a question, the next logical thing to do is to seek an answer to it.
Simply put, when we enable kids to follow their curiosities and interests, they learn much more. As they learn much more, they get better at
learning. It becomes a virtuous cycle.
Instead of a chicken-and-egg problem, Brody got into a virtuous cycle of learning.
Brody’s “sparks” required two things: time and access. The absence of either would have blocked his pursuit.
And yet, we block time and access all the
time without really thinkin...
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Exposure provides the spark of interest.
Most schools work hard to expose students to ideas, interests, and experiences. Exposure alone isn’t enough, though, and so we offer students opportunities to explore what interests
them—so a spark of interest about an abundance of dead dry trees on our camping trip, for instance, turns into a Passion Project wherein the student spends weeks or months studying forest fires and giving a TED-like talk on how they intend to make an impact.
The New Childhood: Raising Kids to Thrive in a Connected World
When people are solving real problems, answering big questions, and doing real work, it’s never perfect. That’s not the point. It’s always about growth.
Someone had been there for me, I’d been there for Mateo, and now he was going to be there for countless other kids.
On average the cost of a four-year college degree today is $40,0006 and 70 percent of
students take on debt to earn the degree.
students need to mentally build a picture of themselves doing different things.
The more colorful and complete the picture,
the more they will be able to explore how it makes them feel and if it aligns with who they are and what they value. These insights are crucial as students begin to create ...
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In the fall of 2015, we launched the Summit Learning Program as a way of sharing our curriculum, professional development, and training and technology for free with other public schools who wanted
to move toward real-world, project-based learning, self-direction, and reflective mentoring.
We know it’s one thing to read a book but something entirely different to
bring this book to life for you and your family.
Ask why of yourself, too. Why is it so important to you that something happen in a certain way?
if something sparks their curiosity, help your child to
explore it more deeply and try it beyond that first experience. And, if the spark turns into an interest, open the doors to help them pursue it further.
