Student Voice: Experiencing Deeper Learning Through PBL
Although high school student Rahil had some academic struggles after immigrating from Fiji just a few years ago, he found opportunity and purpose in the project-based curriculum at Impact Academy.
January 21, 2013
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Go to My Saved Content.Rahil's school, the Impact Academy of Arts and Technology, is part of the Envision Education group of charter schools. Envision Education has a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to pursue a strategy called deeper learning, which encourages 21st-century skills. You may find resources at the Hewlett Foundation's Deeper Learning landing page. Get practical ideas on encouraging deeper learning in the classroom from our series:
- "A Deeper Learning Classroom: Aligning TED Talks to the Four Cs," by Heather Wolpert-Gawron
- "Deeper Learning: Performance Assessment and Authentic Audience," by Shawn Cornally
- "Deeper Learning: A Collaborative Classroom Is Key," by Rebecca Alber
- "Deeper Learning: Highlighting Student Work," by Ron Berger
- "Deeper Learning: Authentic Student Assessment," by Bob Lenz
- "Deeper Learning: Why Cross-Curricular Teaching is Essential," by Ben Johnson
- "Deeper Learning: Defining Twenty-First Century Literacy," by Rebecca Alber