Alec Patton talks to Lincoln High School Principal Melissa Agudelo about the challenges of bringing exhibitions of student learning to a large urban high school, and how they made it successful by literally doing everything all at once.
Students strengthen their learning by practicing skills that may not fit directly into a project but build the foundation for authentic, high-quality work.
The product, and the audience it is intended for, provides a focus for student work from the beginning, and students continue to develop it over multiple drafts, until they have created something worthy of exhibiting.
Essential questions are open-ended points of inquiry—relevant to academia, students’ lives and the world beyond school—expressed in student-friendly language.
