How an Ocean's Journey Inspires One School
Blogger Bob Lenz profiles how the principles of the Polynesian Voyaging Society have been adopted by a school in Hawaii. Aloha! This past year, our new division, Envision Learning Partners, has been...
View ArticleVideo Resources for PBL and Deeper Learning
Blogger Bob Lenz offers up video examples of project-based learning from Envision Schools. I am excited to announce that Envision Schools is now Envision Education. Envision Education encompasses our...
View ArticlePowerful PD: Teachers Take the Learner's Seat
Blogger Bob Lenz proposes that schools give teachers opportunity firsthand to experience project learning. "What does it take to get really good at something?" Envision Schools teachers and leaders...
View ArticleResources for Designing a Political Ad Campaign Project
Blogger Bob Lenz shares valuable resources for helping teachers develop project-based-learning for the upcoming political elections. I learned that you can lie and people will believe you. -- Greg, an...
View ArticleStudents Track an Ocean Voyage
Blogger Bob Lenz highlights the worldwide voyage of the canoe Hokule'a, and encouraged teachers and students to follow the journey In my post, How an Ocean's Journey Inspires One School, I highlighted...
View ArticleHow Authentic Assessment Heightens Accountability in Our Schools
Blogger Bob Lenz explains how making assessment public leads to higher performance by both students and teachers. How do we foster intrinsic motivation, for both teachers and students, to work towards...
View ArticleHow Common Assessments Boost Accountability
Blogger Bob Lenz describes how teacher-designed common assessments create more accountability for both students and instructors. In my last post, I discussed how schools and systems can use a...
View ArticleDeeper Learning: Authentic Student Assessment
Blogger Bob Lenz outlines how graduating seniors at his community of schools exhibit deeper learning through authentic, comprehensive assessment. Is it possible to systemically embed deeper learning...
View ArticleIs Educational Technology Worth the Hype?
Blogger Bob Lenz and his college students weigh the benefits and challenges of educational technology. Each January, I have the opportunity to facilitate a course in Leading and Managing Technology...
View ArticleHow Does Your School Have Fun?
Blogger and charter school CEO Bob Lenz shares how his organization keeps faculty spirits high. Recently, I listened to a story on NPR's All Things Considered called "'Serendipitous Interaction' Key...
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Two Paths: How Will You See the Common Core?
Bob Lenz and Ken Kay propose schools and districts help teachers understand what is visionary about Common Core standards and how they can help drive college and career success for students....
View ArticleOpen Door Policy: College Success Portfolio Defenses
Blogger Bob Lenz describes how Envision offers other educators a chance to observe their schools several times a year to witness their innovative assessment model. How do you inspire teachers and...
View ArticleFour Highlights from the Reimagining Education Summit
Bob Lenz shines the spotlight on education innovations from this year's Reimagining Education Summit. How would you reimagine education? Last week, I attended a Reimagining Education Summit with...
View ArticleSummer Planning for Successful PBL
Bob Lenz suggests that teachers spend a few additional summertime hours planning for successful project-based learning -- this practice can help them reap bigger benefits during the year. It is often...
View ArticleClassroom Connections: Arts Integration Up Close
Edutopia blogger Bob Lenz profiles how a California elementary school used music, dance, and visual arts to connect the content-learning in all its classrooms. Last spring, 450 elementary students in...
View ArticleProject-Based Learning: Debunking the Myths and Fallacies
Edutopia blogger Bob Lenz makes a case for confronting all the misleading beliefs about project-based learning. More than 20 years of teaching and leading schools that rely on project-based learning...
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UC Study: 5 Findings on College Success for Low-Income Youth
Blogger Bob Lenz shares how urban high schools can increase the number of low-income youth graduating and attending college. http://www.flickr.com/photos/slumadridcampus/5736489595Zip codes matter. It...
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How Teachers Can Share Their Own Learning
Edutopia blogger Bob Lenz outlines the teacher defense -- an innovative approach to educators publicly sharing their learning from professional development....
View ArticleEncouraging Teacher Leaders to Become Principals
Edutopia blogger Bob Lenz discusses how a recent report offers a road map for system leaders to establish new standards, practices, and management structures for growing a strong pipeline of...
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A Case for Student-Centered Learning
Edutopia blogger Bob Lenz shares Stanford findings that show deeper learning strategies and student-centered practices increase academic achievement....
View ArticleRevisiting if Educational Technology Is Worth the Hype
Each January, I have the opportunity to facilitate a course in Leading and Managing Technology for the Educational Leadership Program at the Kalmanovitz School of Education at Saint Mary's College of...
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How Assessment Can Lead to Deeper Learning
Edutopia Bob Lenz explains the importance of engaging students directly in assessing their own progress. http://flickr.com/photos/innovationschool/9662734940Most educators, policymakers, and parents...
View ArticleThe Power of Performance Assessments
Edutopia blogger Bob Lenz shares the Envision Schools' framework for assessing high school students during their four-year academic journey. Education is, of course, about so much more than filling...
View ArticleWatch What's Working: A New Deeper Learning Resource
Blogger Bob Lenz outlines deeper learning while also introducing a video series from Teaching Channel that shows it in action at various school sites. At Envision Education, we believe that deeper...
View ArticleA Defense of Deeper Learning: Watch What's Working, Part 2
In this series on deeper learning, Edutopia blogger Bob Lenz describes his high school's College Success Portfolio and presents a video featuring an interview with two seniors from the school....
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