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In this article, two educators from Avenues The World School in São Paulo share how a community-themed project gave their students genuine agency—with results that range from hosting science fairs to cooking breakfast for the school kitchen team.

Third graders at High Tech Elementary designed and built cardboard arcade games based on simple machines like levers, pulleys, and inclined planes

Fifth graders designed themed park lands based on cultural characteristics to inform their engineering and design choices.

Last spring I was standing in my fifth-grade classroom, mid-project, rearranging student groups when I realized we had a problem. My students were building scale models of dog houses and cat condos that they had designed—and would ultimately build—to donate to a pet-adoption event later that spring.

Students explored personal and inspirational forms of power through reflection, research, and creative storytelling.

Craft activism to foster empathy, critical thinking, and civic engagement, encouraging students to express themselves on social issues through art

First graders worked as naturalists to connect the community to the ants that share our environment

"I learned that animals are not just creatures, they can be a big part of your family and life."

Students researched one of the 63 US National Parks focusing on information that other 4th graders would enjoy learning about

Inspired by the picture book A is for Activist, in this project students explored the power of “muralism” to create change in communities