Engaged Learning

Germs! We’re here, there, everywhere!

My K-1 class dove into learning about germs in the past couple of weeks in order to become “experts” and present their learning at Chicago Friends School community health day.  Community health day is where each class teaches the others about some aspects of how to stay healthy.  We began with an activity where, unbeknownst…

Chicago Friends School Student Newsletter

My class is currently composing the second edition of the Chicago Friends School newsletter. This is an entirely kid-generated project, with the entire project proposed and then planned by my students, with only very light editing imposed by me on the final product. The concept was first brought up by a student over a month…