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.
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.
