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Maker Movement Spreads Innovation One Project at a Time
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Peppler, Kylie; Bender, Sophia – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
The maker movement consists of a growing culture of hands-on making, creating, designing, and innovating. A hallmark of the maker movement is its do-it-yourself (or do-it-with-others) mindset that brings individuals together around a range of activities, both high- and low-tech, all involving some form of creation or repair. The movement's…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Development, Hands on Science, Communities of Practice
Getting to Know a Good Middle School: Shoreham-Wading River.
Maeroff, Gene I. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1990
Shoreham-Wading River Middle School in Long Island, New York, is a place where team teaching, experiential learning, teacher participation, and teachers lunching with students are everyday events. Youngsters do community service, work on a small school-owned farm, take trips to explore career options, and almost never cut school. Strong faculty…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Services, Experiential Learning, Junior High Schools
Making Walkabout a Community Reality.
Jipp, Lester F.; Weinhold, Marjorie – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
Outlines steps that must be taken for a school to implement a Walkabout experiential learning program in a community. (IRT)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Experiential Learning, Guidelines, Secondary Education
Education Down and Dirty
Stranix, Edward L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Describes an environmental action program taking place in the schools of five counties in Pennsylvania. The program deals with environmental problems on a practical level and offers technical and consultant assistance to schools and individual teachers. Specific action programs are described. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Community Action, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Experiential Learning
Reform of the High School in the Mid-1970s
Van Til, William – Phi Delta Kappan, 1975
Discusses the proposals of some American educational authorities who favor smaller, more diverse high schools with greater emphasis on action learning, career education, and alternative educational programs. (JG)
Descriptors: Career Education, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Experiential Learning
Building School Communities: An Experience-Based Model.
Westheimer, Joel; Kahne, Joseph – Phi Delta Kappan, 1993
To foster community among students, teachers require training that gives them a positive community experience and equips them with experience-based pedagogical and curricular tools. Stanford University's Experiential Curricula Project embodies five principles: moving from students' experience to theory; engaging students in common projects;…
Descriptors: Community, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
The Humanities Walkabout at Broad Ripple High School.
Johnson, Leigh – Phi Delta Kappan, 1984
The operation of a "Walkabout" program at a large urban magnet school is reviewed. After frequent exposure to supervised community experiences in regular humanities courses students may undertake independent, semester-long Walkabout projects, usually career-oriented. (MJL)
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Community Involvement, Educational Administration, Experiential Learning
Teaching Basic Skills through Art and Music.
Dean, Jodi; Gross, Ila Lane – Phi Delta Kappan, 1992
LEAP (Learning through an Expanded Arts Program), a nonprofit educational organization aimed at improving educational quality in New York City's five boroughs, has served over 400,000 students over the past 12 years. LEAP projects such as Promoting Success and fraction quilts provide hands-on experience with art and music that help students learn…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Basic Skills, Community Organizations, Elementary Secondary Education