CES Fall Forum 2016

In this high-stakes accountability climate, how is learning made visible when students actually get to choose, design, and reflect on their own questions, projects, and collaborations? How do students enact agency and creativity during their work and play during project time? How do teachers use descriptive review to reflect on the ways we nurture authentic choice while also holding expectations? Join us in collaborative inquiry into project time in a NYC public progressive elementary school. Using a descriptive review of work process, participants will view photos and videos of project time in action, listen to students' recorded reflections, and explore examples of student work and project journals. You will leave with inspiration, tools, and habits of work and mind for cultivating children's work-play, and for engaging in collaborative inquiry with your colleagues.