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Social Emotional Learning

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Community Based LearningPBL
October 18, 2023

New Method of Learning Engages Students in a Dropout Prevention & Recovery Program

Mahoning Valley Transformational Learning Educators at the Mahoning Valley Community School use Korda Institute's methodology to engage and empower their students, leading to transformational learning. With this radically different method of teaching, students learn while solving real and urgent problems for their community, developing critical skills and confidence. Watch below…
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PBL
October 27, 2022

Real World Challenge Provokes Deep Learning in Students

Local News Station Challenges Students, Provokes Deep Learning When Taylor Rush’s summer school students were given a challenge by their local NBC station to come up with a plan for a community garden, she didn’t expect the profound and deep learning that would result. By taking on a complex problem…
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21st Century LearningCommunity Based Learning
November 3, 2020

First Graders Collaborate Remotely to Solve Community Challenge

As teachers shifted in March to distance learning, a first-grade teacher at Kingsville Elementary School in Ohio was committed to keeping the learning her students experienced meaningful and engaging. Jacqueline Jenks used the training she received from Korda Institute for Teaching to integrate real challenges from organizations in her community…
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February 14, 2020

Teaching Social Emotional Skills with Team-Based Learning

Watch how this high school Entrepreneurship teacher uses team-based learning to develop her students' social-emotional skills. The students experienced deeper learning as a result of collaborating to solve problems for real businesses in their community. "Student realtionships formulated in a way I never expected.  We cannot be the same likeminded…
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High Quality Teaching
September 11, 2019

Going Beyond PBL to Teach History

IF THERE WERE NO SCHOOL, BUT CHILDREN LEARNED THE STORIES OF HISTORY, WE WOULD HAVE A WELL-EDUCATED SOCIETY. You’ve heard Edmund Burke’s quote, “those who don’t learn history are doomed to repeat it.” And you’ve likely seen the roving reporters asking 20 random American college students and finding 17 of…
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School Redesign
August 4, 2019

Integrating New Teaching Methods Inside a School

At a school where students are sent in lieu of being suspended or expelled, a bold administrator wanted to give these students a learning experience that had more purpose. Dr. Bomar and her teachers then implemented two pilot projects using a new method of teaching and learning that integrated community-based…
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PBL
June 14, 2019

8th Graders Create Solutions for Homeless Shelter

8th grade students experience social emotional learning when given a challenge by a local homeless shelter. Designing solutions for real people in their community caused these middle school students to engage deeper in the complexities of homelessness. Watch as these teachers used a proven teaching method to focus on individual…
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