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Boosting Engagement in Biology With Storylines Organizing curriculum around a central story motivates students to advance the narrative while mastering advanced material.

How did a community of creative educators come together to flip the script on AP Bio? As science teacher Noel Pauller explains, it’s a long story—involving a pet hamster, YouTube videos, & inquiry strategies more commonly found in #PBL. 🐹

@suzieboss.bsky.social breaks down his innovative approach:

Boosting Engagement in Biology With Storylines Organizing curriculum around a central story motivates students to advance the narrative while mastering advanced material.

New @edutopia.org Using storylines to boost engagement in AP Bio www.edutopia.org/article/usin...

The 2025 GLOW Conference Get tickets to The 2025 GLOW Conference, taking place 19/11/2025 to 20/11/2025. RingCentral Events is your source for engaging events and experiences.

The 2025 GLOW Conference #edusky #eduskyai

Connecting with colleagues is best part of ISTE-ASCD conference this week

The Watchlist: June 2025 - Words Without Borders Tobias Carroll on the June titles in translation you won't want to miss, from Peru, Tanzania, Tibet, and more.

Rosa Mistika is atop @wwborders.bsky.social's June Watchlist wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Eager to learn more about Maine Solutionaries Project from Julie Meltzer #istelive #ascd25 #pbl

Today at 2:30 pm, join me for Students to the Rescue in Stars at Night Ballroom. Let's dig into strategies for authentic problem solving, engaged learning #ISTElive #ASCD25

Impressive examples of student design/problem solving from Highlands School in El Salvador. Check out their posters! #istelive #pbl

Favorite part of ISTE/ASCD is catching up with friends (& making new ones) @scottmcleod.bsky.social #iste25

Looking forward to upcoming ASCD-ISTE conference in San Antonio. Join me for my session on Tuesday to hear how students are tackling problems to improve their communities #PBL

World Swahili Language Day is coming up on July 7th. I'll be reading from my English translation of Rosa Mistika at this wonderful event put together by @soasuni.bsky.social. Karibuni wote! www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Briefly Noted Book Reviews Short reviews of recent releases.

Honored to see a mini-review of Rosa Mistika in this week's issue of The New Yorker. "Playing in the space between social realism and fabulist storytelling" is a wonderfully apt description! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Translator’s Voice — Jay Boss Rubin on Translating Euphrase Kezilahabi’s “Rosa Mistika” - Chicago Review of Books The Translator’s Voice is a column from editor Ian J. Battaglia, dedicated to global literature and the translators who work tirelessly and too often thanklessly to bring these books to the English-re...

It's pub day for Rosa Mistika—and here is a lengthy interview about the novel (and much else!) with @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social chireviewofbooks.com/2025/06/17/t...

Finding Community Partners for PBL Here’s how to locate experts willing and eager to share their expertise and bring real-life experience to project-based learning.

Finding Community Partners for PBL | @suzieboss.bsky.social
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#edchat #k12 #edusky #pblchat #deeperlearning

Finding Community Partners for PBL Here’s how to locate experts willing and eager to share their expertise and bring real-life experience to project-based learning.

Connecting with community partners is a powerful way to design real-world PBL—but it’s easier said than done. That’s where this nonprofit comes in.

@suzieboss.bsky.social explains how CommunityShare supports teachers across the country in designing community-engaged projects. 🤝

#PBL #EduSky

Finding Community Partners for PBL Here’s how to locate experts willing and eager to share their expertise and bring real-life experience to project-based learning.

New @edutopia: How to connect with experts and partners for authentic PBL www.edutopia.org/article/wher...
@communityshare.bsky.social

Loss of funding for National History Day hurts international students, too #NHD

History Day. Half a million kids participate. Cancelled before national competition.

I’ve served as National History Day judge for 10 years. It’s been inspiring to see junior & high school students so excited about learning. More senseless destruction of (cheap!) programs that enrich people’s lives. And for what? To fund taxes cuts for those who are already wealthy. 😡 #NHD

Setting Up PBL for National History Day Middle and high school teachers can boost engagement in social studies with project-based learning units for National History Day.

Horrified to hear that this awesome program has been cut #NHD www.edutopia.org/article/nati...

NHD is one of the best opportunities for students to BE historians. Horrible news

A National History Day display: "Alice Paul: How She Rocked the Vote," from the 2020 contest.

A National History Day display: "D-Day: How the Allies Broke Hitler's Atlantic Barrier, from March 2020, SW Michigan regional competition.

I just got confirmation that National History Day, a program that does more to ignite K-12 students' love of history, learning, and yes, even the United States than anything else I've ever seen, had all its funding cut yesterday by the DOGE-axe at the NEH - including for this year's ongoing contest.

The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) is deeply disappointed in the recent decision to eliminate funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for the National History Day (NHD) program.
➡️ Full statement here: hubs.li/Q03g6D4r0

In new issue of EARCOS Journal, I talk with international educator Matt Elms about his award-winning work to teach students to think like historians through National History Day Projects #EduSky #PBL

"When someone hurts you, you’re obliged to write your grievances in the sand, so they’ll scatter as soon as the winds of forgiveness begin to blow." #SwahiliFiction by Fadhy Mtanga in the new issue of #LivinginLanguages. Karibuni hadithi scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/liljournal/v...

Look forward to presenting at ASCD/ISTE combined conference in July. My session--Students to the Rescue--will offer strategies for student-centered projects with real-world impact #edusky

Last gig of 2024 in the books--an early morning webinar with teachers from a network of 10 schools in Chile who are embracing #PBL and student-centered learning. Looking forward to seeing how they engage with their communities on authentic problem solving in 2025

Happy to join. Maybe in the new year?

2024 in Review, From Your Point of View The inspiring debates and powerful ideas that energized, worried, and motivated you—our readers—this year.

All you @edutopia.org readers out there, we put together a compilation of what you had to say on the biggest issues and debates raised by our content this year: www.edutopia.org/article/2024.... What a great community we have!

Hi Heidi! No PBL chats here yet--but I imagine it won't be long. Hope all's well in your world