Hawken School Archives - Korda Institute for Teaching

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Korda Method, environmental entrepreneurship course

August 14, 2017

Environmental Entrepreneurship Course Leads to New Way of Teaching Science

In this episode, Doris interviews Sarah Swain. Sarah describes the integration of environmental science into her entrepreneurship course and entrepreneurial skills into her core science courses. They discuss the importance of students learning to identify problems, reflect and collaborate.

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Korda Method - creative world history curriculum

July 31, 2017

Students Learn Ancient World History by Solving Modern Problems

Doris speaks with Julia Griffin, Humanities teacher and Assistant Director of Teaching and Learning at Hawken Upper School. Julia shares how her humanities department adopted a new academic method that transformed the way their students learned ancient world history and better equipped them with skills like writing, research, critical thinking…

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July 3, 2017

Students Learn Spanish through Real World Project

In this episode, Doris speaks with Rachel Mullen, Upper School Spanish Teacher at Hawken School. Rachel shares how her students advanced their Spanish communications, cultural awareness, and collaboration skills by working on a creative project for a multicultural marketing agency.

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Mastery Transcript Consortium, MTC, Korda Method

May 29, 2017

Movement to Create a New High School Transcript

Can a group of independent schools get colleges to accept a new kind of transcript without grades? In this episode, Scott Looney, Founder of the Mastery Transcript Consortium and Head of Hawken School discusses an initiative to bring important change to the college admissions process.

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Do School Better - K12 Education Podcast

February 15, 2016

This is Radically Different: Hawken School’s Entrepreneurial Studies Program

In this episode, Doris and Alison discuss the Hawken School Entrepreneurial Studies program and its radical method of entrepreneurship education. They reveal how a rigorous, academic program using real and urgent business problems is different than teaching “how to run a lemonade stand” or the traditional business courses.