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Snapshots of Innovation: Travels With Chen (After Steinbeck's Travels with Charley)
Milton ChenNovember 3, 2010
Tags Accountability, Achievement Gap, Comprehensive Assessment, Curriculum, Environmental Education, Expeditionary Learning, Field Trips, Formative Assessment, Integrated Studies, Place-Based Learning, Project-Based Learning, Technology Integration, Travel, Drama, All Grades, English Language Arts, Geography, History, Science, Visual Arts

One of my favorite books in high school was John Steinbeck's Travels With Charley, his account of his road trip around the U. S., late in his career, accompanied only by his French poodle Charley. Not having traveled much as a boy beyond my home state of Illinois, into Wisconsin and Indiana, I was mesmerized by his stories of the vastness and diversity of our country.

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The Mind's Eye: A Halloween Activity to Ignite Young Imaginations
Gaetan PappalardoOctober 27, 2010
Tags Arts Education, Integrated Studies, Lesson Plans, Literacy, Primary (K-2), Project-Based Learning, Student Engagement, Student Work Examples, Teacher Development, Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle (6-8), Drama, English Language Arts, Visual Arts

I want you to reach up and feel the bumps on your head. Let your fingers run along the hills and crevices of your dome; examine the terrain. End your exploration by palming your entire head like a basketball. Now I want you to unzip your skull. I can hear the slow clicking of each metal tooth. And inside your head you won't find a brain, but an eyeball: a large, gooey eyeball pivoting on an elastic tendon. Searching. Looking. Staring. It's your mind's eye. And it depends on you, my writing friend, as to how much that eyeball can see.

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A Web 2.0 Class: Students Learn 21st Century Skills, Collaboration, and Digital Citizenship
Andrew MarcinekOctober 11, 2010
Tags Classroom Technology, Comprehensive Assessment, Digital Citizenship, Global Education, Integrated Studies, Professional Learning Network (PLN), Project-Based Learning, Student Work Examples, Teacher Development, Technology Integration, High (9-12), English Language Arts, History

Christopher Columbus was wrong when he reported to the King and Queen that the world is round. In fact, the world is flat and so are many of our classrooms in this great nation.

For years, students learned within the parameters of a building, which then separated them into rooms. Students would attend class daily and the teacher would present the daily lesson. This is how a school day has progressed for years. And in many US classrooms, it still does. However, this not the case in three high schools in Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts.

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Not My Father's Shop Class: Fusing Career Tech with College Prep
EdutopiaSeptember 28, 2010
Tags Career and Technical Education, Integrated Studies, Project-Based Learning, Technology Integration, High (9-12)

In the late 1970s, when I moved into my very first apartment at the start of my junior year in college, my father gave me a gift. It was a gift fit for his daughter -- a box of nails, and a hammer to pound them with, pliers, a set of wrenches, a flat and a Phillips screwdriver, and a manual drill, all neatly arranged in a blue metal toolbox. The handsaw, being too large for the box, was packaged separately.

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The Path to Innovation: Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics and Science (TEAMS) Integration (5 of 5)
Jim Brodie BrazellAugust 23, 2010
Tags Classroom Technology, Education Reform, Integrated Studies, Math, Science

Editor's Note: Today's guest blogger is Jim Brazell, a technology forecaster, author, public speaker, and consultant. It is the fifth in a five-part series on the convergence of STEM education and the Arts (TEAMS).

The mandate of the 21st century and what everyone in the STEM game is pursuing is the capacity for "knowledge innovation." According to Debra Amidon, the mother of the knowledge economy, "Knowledge innovation is the creative process that delivers new knowledge, intellectual property and ultimately adaptation and survival." (Debra Amidon, July 28, 2010, Email Interview)

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TEAMS Model State: The Ohio Arts Integration and STEM Initiative (Part 4 of 5)
Jim Brodie BrazellAugust 20, 2010
Tags After-School Learning, Integrated Studies, Professional Learning Network (PLN), Teacher Development, Technology Integration, All Grades, Math, Science, Visual Arts, Ohio

Editor's Note: Today's guest blogger is Jim Brazell, a technology forecaster, author, public speaker, and consultant. It is the fourth in a five-part series on the convergence of STEM education and the Arts (TEAMS).

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Case Study: TEAMS Model School - Clark STEM Magnet in Glendale, CA
Jim Brodie BrazellAugust 13, 2010
Tags Career and Technical Education, Dropout Prevention, Integrated Studies, Professional Learning Network (PLN), Project-Based Learning, Technology Integration, Middle (6-8), High (9-12), California, Math, Science

Editor's Note: Today's guest blogger is Jim Brazell, a technology forecaster, author, public speaker, and consultant. It is the third in a five-part series on the convergence of STEM education and the Arts (TEAMS).

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The TEAMS Model: Unifying Arts, Academics, and Career and Technical Education
Jim Brodie BrazellAugust 6, 2010
Tags Dropout Prevention, Integrated Studies, Project-Based Learning, Technology Integration, Middle (6-8), High (9-12), All Grades, Math, Florida, Science, Visual Arts, New York, Texas

Editor's Note: Today's guest blogger is Jim Brazell, a technology forecaster, author, public speaker, and consultant. It is the second in a five-part series on the convergence of STEM education and the Arts (TEAMS).

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Bassline Buff Verbs
Gaetan PappalardoJuly 30, 2010
Tags Arts Education, Integrated Studies, Primary (K-2), Upper Elementary (3-5), English Language Arts, Music, Visual Arts

We found the groove. Make sure your seatbelts are fastened and have a good time.

 -- From the song "20th Century," by the band Brad

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Connecting STEM and Arts (TEAMS) to Spur U.S. Innovation: Part 1 of 5
Betty RayJuly 30, 2010
Tags Comprehensive Assessment, Integrated Studies, Online Learning, Professional Learning Network (PLN), Project-Based Learning, Technology Integration, All Grades, Math, Science, Visual Arts

Editor's Note: Today's guest blogger is Jim Brazell, a technology forecaster, author, public speaker, and consultant. This is the first article in a five-part series.

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