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Last year's trip to Costa Rica showed us that education can, and should, be a life-altering experience. This year, a largely new group of students, have decided to learn about and travel to Puerto Rico. With this new topic and destination in mind, we have developed a year-long interdisciplinary class that is based on the same three core principles:

1) Travel to expand students' horizons
2) An explicit connection between the classroom and real world
3) The use of sweat equity for students to see that their efforts can make a difference

During the early fall, the curriculum was largely focused on developing the 21st Century Skills of problem solving, critical thinking, decision-making, and collaboration. This was initially done using group challenges in the classroom, but then became vitally important once we started raking lawns. In addition to being our major fundraiser, this hard work put students in positions that required group problem solving, as well as perseverance and responsibility – traits that we all know are central to changing the trajectory of their lives.

During the winter and spring, each student will be developing an independent research project on a chosen aspect of Puerto Rico.
We hope that you will keep checking back as we share our learning, growth and adventures.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Introduction To My Project

I have taken a poll from every one in my school to see what was the most interesting thing to do a project on and I got caves. Many people wanted me to do other things but in the end most wanted me to do caves. I have conducted a project that I want to do. I gathered different information about different things. So I want to use all of the information so I want to do a project on how they were formed, what life forms are inside of the caves, how the species live in there, and how the caves here and there are different. i have organized all of the information into different categories on what the information contains. I am very exited to go to Puerto Rico and learn all of the different things there is to learn down there. I want to do all the things there are to do down there. When we go I will be able to say I did something that means something to me.

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