Community Engaged Learning: Brooklyn Every year, I take my Grade 12 Green Industries students to NYC for a weekend of experiential learning about...
#TeachCities: NYC Edition Why should we #teachcities to young people? For me, today was a perfect illustration of how the city, in...
Community Garden, Community Service *originally posted on the Greenwood College School website on May 22, 2014. Over the past year, students in Grade...
Choose Your Own Adventure: Student Designed Curriculum Last week, my grade 12 students presented their final "deliverables" created in their "Choose Your Own Adventure" (CYOA) unit...
Design Thinking in the Classroom * This article was originally posted on the Greenwood College School blog, PersonalizedLearning.ca In a recent New York Times...
The Great Green Roof Debate At the start of the third term, I was approached by a colleague seeking to collaborate on a new...
Keeping it Real: Regent Park Revitalization As mentioned in my previous post, engaging students through social action has always been one of my goals. This...
Keeping It Real: The Green Line Competition One of my priorities as an educator is to connect students to the real world while also making...
Choose Your Own Adventure At the end of my second year of teaching, I met with my instructional leader and the coordinator of...
“I love trees” I love the way that somethings just happen naturally. This year, my Green Industries class seemed to grow organically...
Student Vote: Democracy in Action Once again this year, I had the good fortune of having an election take place during my Civics course....
The Farm Project As part of the projects-bases focus of the Grade 11 Green Industries course, I designed a project that would...
Engaging Students Through Social Action As Coordinator of Service Learning, it is always my goal to engage students in the wider community, helping them...