EPS Ideas Blog

I know we aren't beholden to state standards, but the new common core focuses on broad skills - worth a look.

Some things to consider as we look at our 'no homework' experiment.

Some considerations in all your spare time.

Here's some inspiration for the Design Lab.

There are some great links in this article.

So many choices, of which letter grades are probably the worst for many, many reasons.

By way, if you haven't read Thinking Fast and Slow yet, you're missing out.

I haven't checked the sources,  but damn!

If we're going to re-align our science curriculum, should we re-align our expectations as well?

Not much new here - but some interesting ideas that fall in between too much and none.

How does one set priorities? I think this is probably one of the biggest skills that gets overlooked in most curriculum. Is there a way for us to explicitly teach this to our kids?

This sounds oddly familiar :)

This is essentially what we're up to in the Fabrication Studio. If you interested in getting involved, please let me know.

I'll take five of these, please.

Um...yeah!? I know there was a reason, but why aren't our math and science curricula integrated as tightly as our humanities are?

This is how kids will get an A in my class. 

This is simple enough it might actually work.

We had been talking about character education, but I haven't heard much in a while. Late iGrant, anyone?

Pretty cool math lesson.

Would like to work on changing this perception for students. I think it will require some rethinking of the way things are done in math class though.