Students Take Action in the Community
By Suzie Boss
5/28/09
When New York City's 1.1 million public school students return from summer vacation, they can look forward to rolling up their sleeves and getting busy improving the world, or at least their corner of it.
Teachers as Curators of Learning
By Suzie Boss
5/5/09Quick: Name ten excellent Web sites related to the grade level or subject area you teach.
An Environmental Educator Makes a Splash Challenging Students
By Suzie Boss
4/7/09Christopher Swain describes himself as an ordinary guy. Maybe. But how many of us ordinary folks would consider swimming 1,000 miles along the Atlantic coast to raise awareness about the planet's fragile health?
Teachers Step Up and Assist with Global Issues
By Suzie Boss
3/6/09In southern Sudan, a region wracked by decades of civil war and famine, hope is rising. A new secondary school is going up in the village of Marial Bai.
Students Participate in Professional Development -- and Their Own Education
By Suzie Boss
2/10/09Long before I arrived in Philadelphia for Educon 2.1, I was picking up clues that this was going to be a different kind of education conference. There would be no sit-and-get workshops, according to organizer extraordinaire Chris Lehmann, principal of the Science Leadership Academy, which hosts this annual event.
Retired Teachers Put Life Lessons to Good Use
By Suzie Boss
1/28/09Michele McRae retired from a long and enjoyable career as a professor of English and French, only to find herself bored silly as a retiree. "I lasted about three weeks," she says. And so she got busy.
Taking the Plunge: Diving into a Collaborative Project
By Suzie Boss
12/18/08Months before Americans chose Barack Obama as their forty-fourth president, Crista Lawson, from Aubrey Park Elementary School, in Eugene, Oregon, had a hunch that the 2008 election would prove to be historic. "I wanted my kids to pay attention and be informed about this election," she says.
Teaching with Visuals: Students Respond to Images
By Suzie Boss
11/13/08Dan Meyer knows that textbook-driven teaching hasn't served his students well. That's why they wind up taking remedial algebra with him in ninth grade. "They either need more time on content, or they've really been burned by traditional math instruction," says the teacher from San Lorenzo Valley High School, near Santa Cruz, California.
Inspiring Young Leaders: Girls Take the Challenge
By Suzie Boss
9/30/08Before she attended a summer leadership event sponsored by Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., Allie, a sixteen-year-old from Pasadena, California, says she had heard both of these words: social and entrepreneur. "But," she adds, "I had never put them together before." Now, after taking part in the Girl Scouts Challenge and Change program, she feels inspired to become a social entrepreneur herself.
Hungry for Solutions: Can the Youth Fix the Future?
By Suzie Boss
9/11/08On a recent late summer morning in Portland, Oregon, I walked past the downtown farmers' market, where vendors were setting up their lush displays of fruits and vegetables. Food was on my mind, but for a different reason. I was on my way to a forum for young people about how they could help fight world hunger.
