Project Blue Flame
What is the point of school?
How can we educate students to set them up for happy, healthy, successful lives?
PBF focuses on development of a student’s internal compass, creativity, self-efficacy, and capacity for perseverance. I aim to reach grade 6-12 students and teachers through my work.
Primary PBF Concept Modules:
Self-Identification
Goal Setting
Taking Action
Foreseeing Obstacles
Habits
Comfort Zone
Planning
Aligning Choices with your Goals
Delaying Gratification
Assessing Obstacles
Frame of Reference
Adversity & Grit
Empathy
Working with Others
PBF Concept Map
Any public educator’s task involves assessing and problem solving on a daily basis to serve students. I have worked with a variety of districts each unique in culture, demographics, and structure in the context of a rapidly evolving world.
The insights I have collected over the past 10 years through a design-led approach to teaching and learning have brought me to this working conclusion:
The best way to educate students is to create learning experiences that facilitate their personal construction of meaning about the world, their place in it, and how to navigate through it.
Selected Lessons & Concepts:
