Let's advocate for our students like they're our own children. That's my motto. Students need champions. People who courageously speak on their behalf. I wholeheartedly believe the education system today is flawed, don't we all?A The system that was developed a hundred+ years ago was designed for the industrial age. We were preparing our youth for future factory jobs, which require repetitive and predictible tasks. But jobs have and will continue to change in the United State

How do you start project work? How do you incorporate standards into these projects? How do you control the chaos? These are the many questions I started with and hear often. Project work can be messy and difficult to start. Hopefully, this post will give you some tools to begin a project or find a way to weave standards into a project. We (Brooke Daniel- a 1st grade teacher at my school) just wrapped up a huge project we started back in November. When I think back to how thi