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Simple Truths: Unchain the Elephant The message in Unchain the Elephant is simple: to fully experience all life has to offer, we need to break free from our chains and rediscover our inner creativity…

Build habits that will lead you to excellence.

What do your teachers really know about project based learning or using projects to assess mastery? Check out this informative article.

Instead of focusing on the desired learning outcomes, this approach merely seeks out tasks that might be fun, or at least keep kids busy: “The activities, though fun and engaging, do not lead anywhere intellectually. (They) lack an explicit focus on important ideas and appropriate evidence of learning.”

Is Your Lesson a Grecian Urn? Far too many students are doing projects that look creative but offer almost no opportunity for real learning. Time for the Grecian Urns to go.