Academic Publications

Empowering Our Students for the Future

Student-centered practices empower students to become active members of society.

Encouraging Self-Direction and Life-Long Learning

Working toward the goal of empowering young people as active citizens, this collection of chapters presents voices from across the broad community of educators who share their successful individual work of methods and practices that empower young people to engage in their own agency.

Changing the Status Quo

Courage to Challenge the Education System

Assessment, technology, and race need to be challenged to change the status quo in education.

Assessment, technology, and racial discrimination are three status quos that negatively impact the way educators teach, and how students learn. The education system must change, and courage is required to speak out against ideas and practices that do not work so we can improve learning for all students.

The Power of Project-Based Learning

Helping Students Develop Important Life Skills

Project based learning teaches students important life skills like problem solving and communication.

Project-based learning motivates and inspires students to become self-directed learners over time. Students learn not only the content surrounding their projects, but also important life skills such as problem-solving, creativity, collaboration, communication, time management, and responsibility.

Teaching for Experiential Learning

These five experiential approaches help students become active learners which motivates them to learn.

Five Approaches That Work

Our current educational systems lack ways to reach today's learners in relevant, meaningful ways. The five approaches in this book inspire and motivate students to learn. Each approach includes an element of student involvement, and attempts to engage students in solving problems.

Time for Action

Stop Teaching to the Test and Start Teaching Skills

Test taking assessments are killing student motivation.

This book discusses why the education system needs to change now, and provides practical examples of teaching approaches, school models, and assessment systems that can move the education system forward in the right direction. Students deserve an education that teaches them how to solve challenging problems and inspires them to become life long learners.

Using Experiential Learning in the Classroom

Practical Ideas for All Educators

Tools and techniques are provided to help educators integrate more experiential learning.

While research tells us that experiential learning is more effective than the more traditional process of information assimilation (where teachers lecture, test, and grade), high school, college, and university teachers continue to use paper-and-pencil tests as their primary grading and assessment tool.

Articles and Abstracts

Measuring life skills, hope, and academic growth at project-based learning schools

Project Based Learning Schools that are Assessing more than Just Academic Achievement

Students' Perceptions of Life Skill Development in Project-Based Learning Schools

Enhancing College Students’ Life Skills Through Project Based Learning

Cultivating Life Skills at a Project Based Charter School

A Different Type of Success:Teaching Important Life Skills Through Project Based Learning

A Qualitative Study Using Project Based Learning in a Mainstream Middle School

Teaching Practices that Improve Student Learning: Five Experiential Approaches

A Practical and Progressive Pedagogy for Project Based Service Learning

How Project-Based Learning is Helping Change the Status Quo

Faculty Perceptions and Use of Experiential Learning In Higher Education