sites & seeds

April 17, 2011

Plant a ‘seed’ of a CAS website on your school’s web page. Nurture it with visuals, and keep it alive – updated – regularly. Water it with challenges and reflections. Fertilize it with good ideas. Cultivate the audience that reads it,...

“evidence and engagement”

April 15, 2011

What happens when we give consumers, including our students, more control? Especially control of their “footprints”. A community in the UK has achieved some interesting change via an awareness campaign and real street action. Your task : Get your CAS kids...

“ideals and ideas”

April 12, 2011

I’d been invited to prepare a presentation on service learning to my school’s leadership team. We were discussing a proposal to make community service an ‘expectation’ for all graduating seniors. It was 1996, the pre power-point era, and my supporting visuals were...

“A tool kit for projects”

April 5, 2011

The arc of any project lends itself to close analysis. From the first step planning stage, through active experiential learning, then a culminating event or production, and, finally a reflection, the role of the teacher as mentor and facilitator is crucial. At each of...

“Earth Hour – 8.30 pm e.s.t. – March 26, 2011.”

March 25, 2011

From its debut in one city in one country, viz. Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million individuals turned off their lights to take a stand against climate change, Earth Hour has become truly global, embracing 128 countries and territories in 2010. This Saturday March 26,...

“Spread the seed”

Challenge your CAS kids to get a focus on Earth Day, April 22. Task : Get everyone in your learning community to start thinking in terms of water consumption. Invite the CAS group to spread a ‘seed’. Ask them to invite your whole learning community –...