Emily Pilloton gave an excellent talk for TED ("Teaching design for change") to share her innovative work in design to improve education and rural communities. Teaching children to change their world is perhaps the best [...]
This story is a perfect example of how our schools are fulfilling our mission of collaborating to grow seats of quality education city by city. STC Milwaukee has pledged to grow to 20,000 seats of [...]
We’ve looked at technology in the classroom in quite a few posts here at STC (See a TED speaker advocating computers for math, Shafeen Charania on Turning Technology Change into Advantage, and How to Create [...]
As school bullying continues to make the nation’s headlines, our school has looked for opportunities to open up the dialogue and take a pro-active stance on bullying. In my own 2nd grade classroom at Russell [...]
Let me first describe what we're doing in Detroit with one simple word: Transformational. This school year is beginning with the transformation of DEPSA (Detroit Edison Public School Academy) from a K-8 Academy into [...]