Hannah Emmanuele

  From PBS NewsHour: Much has been written about Maine’s Expeditionary Learning program and state-wide 1:1 laptop program which has been in place since 2004.  Read more here and here and here.  Information about other expeditionary schools throughout the US ...

From Edutopia:  Every student at Helen King Middle School and Casco Bay High School in Portland, Maine, has a laptop. But that’s not the whole story — they use it in project-learning curricula that takes them outside the confines of ...

Science Leadership Academy is often cited as one of the “most amazing schools in the world”  where learning is deeply ingrained in the school’s culture.   The school has received world-wide recognition for reinventing the traditional school model and creating a rigorous, ...

High Tech High In San Diego is nationally recognized as the high school of the future.  It offers a student-centered, inquiry based learning environment where student engagement is remarkable. Edutopia: Since 2000, the charter public school has evolved into a ...

In 2010, Monument Mountain Regional High School in Massachusetts supported a diverse group of students on a journey to design and run their own school.  The ‘school within a school’ was inquiry-based and the students taught each other and evaluated themselves.  ...

From PBS, MediaShift’s Aran Levasseur :

After a laboratory mishap, Canadian high school seniors, Miranda Wang and Jeany Yao, made a ‘serendipitous’ discovered a bacterial process to breakdown plastics which led to a science award for most promising commercial potential.  Kids already changing the world. Einstein:  ...

A Teenager’s Promising New Test for Pancreatic Cancer 15 year old  Jack Andraka discovered a cheap, quick and noninvasive way to detect pancreatic cancer, setting the stage for possibly eradicating the disease altogether.  How could someone so young make such ...