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Meghan Cureton

How Being Part of a 'House' Within a School Helps Students Gain A Sense of Belonging - 0 views

  • sense of inclusion and engagement in a common enterprise can have academic benefits as well as social-emotional ones
  • each takes responsibility for advising 28 of the house’s students, whom they follow through the end of sophomore year.
  • houses have not just missions, colors, chants and symbols but also hand signs and mottos—each classroom contains four colored containers.
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  • In a paper on the topic,
  • requires a long-term commitment,” Hayes said, as well as whole-school involvement.
  • For a house system to succeed, there has to be something substantive behind it, an underlying ethos being reinforced.
  • “The houses are not just a thing that you do,” Kloczko agreed. “It’s really your whole school culture.”
T.J. Edwards

Emergent Curriculum Design: Beginning with Shared Vision - 0 views

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    Great protocol to use in house or in MVIFI consults work
T.J. Edwards

SMU disrupts design with new Master's in art and design innovation - 0 views

  • One of the mandatory classes places students in studio classes where they are given a client and a prompt to solve an open-ended problem using human-centered design.
    • T.J. Edwards
       
      Novel idea :)
  • The current client is Café Momentum, a nonprofit restaurant that trains and hires juvenile offenders. The problem students have to solve is that many of the young men who work at Café Momentum are unable to get a lease or live in unaffordable housing because of their age.
    • T.J. Edwards
       
      Sounds like fuse
  • Students can take two elective courses in almost any subject as long as they can justify why they are taking the classes. She also emphasized that MADI is for anyone.
    • T.J. Edwards
       
      Could this be a model for iD. Make room for more electives, and students should show how those electives will further work in iD
Meghan Cureton

The 5 C's of innovation ecosystems | Devex - 0 views

  • We’ve supported such process by bringing multiple organizations together for face-to-face learning exchanges, which are designed to provide targeted learning opportunities for innovators.
    • Meghan Cureton
       
      I like this idea for MVIFI - starting in-house with "learning exchanges" across divisions, expanding to schools outside MV, expanding beyond...
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