Hannah Emmanuele

In 2002, a new school opened its doors to over 600 children with no walls, literally or figuratively.  Instead of desks in rows, students get to choose from dozens of nurturing and comfortable learning spaces to suit their personal learning ...

  App-smashing, co-creating artifacts of learning, fighting the boring monster, developing perseverance and grit–this teacher gets it. Parents seeking to understand how modern learning culture presents in a public school setting will be richly rewarded by hearing London, Ontario elementary ...

Is it time to reinvent the classroom? Reflections from Stockbridge Elementary, where they are using a PBL curriculum for a 3rd-5th grade program.  Another example of a ‘school within a school’ model.

One of many innovative public schools throughout the country, New York City’s Quest to Learn (Q2L) is a unique partnership between the Department of Education, New Visions for Public Schools, and the Institute of Play.  The school serves students in ...

In today’s changing world, students need to be fluent in a different set of skills than in the past in order to lead successful adult lives.  In response, public schools across the country are reinventing themselves into models of 21st ...

Being a high performing school district and regularly achieving top standardized test scores is no longer enough to meet the needs of 21st century learners.  Tamalpais Union High School District discusses the effectiveness and integration for Learners and Leaders (PBL=project-based ...

The Classics Academy program at Morristown High School offers a unique, cross-curricular experience for seniors who wish to explore the deeply-seeded connections of ancient Greece and Rome both to western intellectual history and, more personally, to their own lives. Through ...

Kettle Moraine School District in the southeast region of Wisconsin has been on an amazing journey of transformation.  This school district spans from 4 year old kindergarten through 12th grade with an enrollment of about 4,300 students. In 2005, the Kettle ...

Some exciting developments are occurring in the Kettle Morraine public schools.  Based on long established scientific research into human development and how children learn, Wisconsin’s new KM Explore School was founded on the principle of helping students become architects of ...

Located in a suburb of Boston, Burlington High Schoool decided a few years ago “to give its students access to resources that would allow them to do great things.”  In short, that meant eliminating textbooks and implementing a 1:1 iPad ...