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  • Experiment YOU

    Experiment You engages students in solving problems that matter to them.

  • The Importance of Being Insistent

    Improving school environments requires insistence and verification that changes are implemented at schools. Students can provide this verification through STEM or science projects benchmarking the health and environmental conditions at their school.

  • Thinking Big: How Code in the Schools is helping kids learn to problem solve, collaborate and program computers.

    Think kids don’t like to learn? You must not have come to the Game Jam at Code in the Schools last Saturday. Students 12 years and up worked in small teams from 8 am to 8 pm to learn programming and to solve problems as they created their own video games. Volunteers with gaming and…

  • Transforming America

    Gar Alperovitz, co-founder of Democratic Collaborative, suggests that we are in a moment when transformation to make our economy and communities more democratic, just, and sustainable. He cites examples of cooperative businesses, credit unions and local institutions creating fair wages and sustainable communities as templates for creating better futures for Americans. Alperovitz states that “I’m…

  • Transforming America

    Gar Alperovitz, co-founder of Democratic Collaborative, suggests that we are in a moment when transformation to make our economy and communities more democratic, just, and sustainable. He cites examples of cooperative businesses, credit unions and local institutions creating fair wages and sustainable communities as templates for creating better futures for Americans.

  • Natural Learning vs School Training

    Natural Learning vs School Training

    Peter Senge details the difference between natural learning and the assembly-line training done at schools. Senge advocates for reforms which would make student learning more self directed and collaborative.

  • Children to Adults: “We Are Ready, Are You?”

    Children to Adults: “We Are Ready, Are You?”

    Peter Senge explains how an 11-year-old student challenged adults to help children improve our environment. “We are ready, are you?” Senge urged adults to give children a voice in decisions which will affect their future and their world.

  • Peter Senge on Sustainability and Education

    Peter Senge on Sustainability and Education

    Peter Senge talks about the intersection of sustainability and social justice issues as the Green Schools National Conference in Virginia Beach, VA.

  • Systems Thinking in Schools

    Systems Thinking in Schools

    Peter Senge explains how students can use systems thinking to understand and solve conflicts. Senge points out that systems thinking is key to solving social and environmental problems.