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Effective Chaos = better Learning
Professional Development can be dreaded by teachers, and what's more, the enormous investment from districts doesn't necessarily translate to better teaching. No one wants to spend hours being subjected to slide presentations with 10 pt text and a droning voice that is not even focused on your specific content area! Or realizing for all of the time that you put in, there is no support available when you go to implement those new strategies you just learned about!
Don't settle with feeling like PD means you have to go to detention -- Join in on the CHAOS to get hands-on, project-based, just-in-time modeled learning that you can implement with your students and in your community. We support you even after the workshop is done, so the time that you invest doesn't go to waste. Be the innovator of new strategies that foster critical thinking at your school, and have your students excited to talk to you about their projects, regardless of the crazy mess that it might look like from the outside.
Don't settle with feeling like PD means you have to go to detention -- Join in on the CHAOS to get hands-on, project-based, just-in-time modeled learning that you can implement with your students and in your community. We support you even after the workshop is done, so the time that you invest doesn't go to waste. Be the innovator of new strategies that foster critical thinking at your school, and have your students excited to talk to you about their projects, regardless of the crazy mess that it might look like from the outside.
It starts with Disruptive Teaching
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EXPERIENCE What Good Chaos Means
Good CHAOS means authentic learning experiences designed with the flexibility to prepare teachers like you with the tools to localize your focus to the needs and issues important to your students and your communities. This means that students and teachers dig in to self-led, directly relevant, project-based learning that fosters collaborative engagement. We encourage starting from the students interests that are meaningful to them, to directly engage them in projects that they want to work on instead of projects that they have to work on.
The learning tools and experiences that we share align with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Common Core State Standards (CCSS), and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).
The learning tools and experiences that we share align with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Common Core State Standards (CCSS), and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).
What Teachers Have to Say
I was worried students wouldn't buy into it. I hadn't heard of Etextiles before. . . I hadn't thought about how it works. How energy flows through the circuit, how it's used throughout, that all is part of the curriculum that I would teach -- that's how I tie it in." |
I think it's an awesome opportunity for students to be exposed to some diversity and different ways of thinking and confronting issues and problems surrounding immigration migration and forced relocation.” |
Before, I was like 'I don't know how to teach them this,' so we did a lot more book work. As I did it, I noticed that the half of the class that got this ESTITCH stuff, that they excelled! Everyone was running to class, willing to do their homework -- they just loved it -- telling all their friends..." |
I was having to go through that investigative process and that deduction of figuring out where my problems are, just like my students do.” |
We attract a lot of students to science that don't normally see themselves as belonging in Science and Computing." |
It's hard, but it's exciting, and it's things that the kids are going to have to know with jobs that are coming out for them.” |
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