Your lesson, should you choose to accept it, is to incorporate Project Based Learning into your teaching to support, among many amazing things, the Social-Emotional Development of your students. The special agent assigned to help you with this task is Mike Kaechele

In our conversation we discuss:

1️⃣ Responding to school and community needs, such as reacting to an ICE raid, or helping farmers choose their next potato crops

2️⃣ Giving students agency and hope for the future, such as a Chemistry, English, US History project looking at poverty in America or returning the rapids to Grand Rapids

3️⃣ Making it work by providing structure, connecting to standards, learning from mistakes, adapting year-to-year, and having the students ask rather than the adults

Links to check out/mentioned in the episode:

• More about PBL from Edutopia

• The fundamentals of SEL from CASEL

• Strategies for helping students impacted by ICE raids from IDRA

• Book: The Power of Making Thinking Visible: Practices to Engage and Empower All Learners

• Project Zero’s thinking routines

• Previous podcast episode with Lewis Mayday-Travis

How to connect with Mike:

• Twitter

• Website

• Facebook

• LinkedIn