Kelly Wilson, HTH GSE Dean, talks to Benjamin Freud, head of Upper School at Green School in Bali, about doing socially-meaningful, student-driven PBL grounded in the local community, in a school with bamboo buildings and no walls.
We wrote this chapter several years ago, in response to a request from the Sitra Foundation in Finland that we envision the school of the future. The chapter is dated in some respects, but apart from minimal updates and revisions for clarity, it appears here as written.
Alec talks to the XP Trust's Chief Academic Officer, Andy Sprakes, about how XP schools make sure every child's work makes it into the final product, and the hard lesson that made them take this so seriously.
Alec talks to the XP Trust's Chief Academic Officer, Andy Sprakes, about how XP schools make sure every child's work makes it into the final product, and the hard lesson that made them take this so seriously.
This is the longer "director's cut" version of this episode.