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Experiential Education Books: 10 Great Reads for Innovative Teachers and Parents

5/14/2025

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Experiential education is taking the world by storm, especially our post-pandemic world. 

If you are an aspiring or even practicing experiential educator looking for more information about experiential learning or could use a boost of inspiration, I highly recommend that you start by reading some books about experiential education written by the experiential learning greats!

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14 Community Action Project Ideas to Wrap Up the School Year

5/13/2025

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Community action projects are student and personal learning experience favorites all times of year, but spring time is an especially great time for them for a variety of reasons.

Spring is here, the weather is warming, and students are getting antsy. The school year is wrapping up for many. Teachers want to end the year on a high note, but are also exhausted and don't know how much more they have left to give!

It's testing season, graduation season, grade report season. Ah! Spring is bonkers in the world of education. 

So what better way to cruise through the rest of the year than with a community action project (CAP)?

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How to Teach High School Entrepreneurs to Start and Run their Own Successful Businesses

5/6/2025

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Teaching high school entrepreneurs to start their own businesses is a great idea! Just reading this blog post is a great first step. But teaching students how to create their own high school businesses can be slightly overwhelming, and I get it.

​Let's talk high school entrepreneurship that is engaging, effective, and not overly complicated for anyone involved.

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Four Life Skills Example Projects for High School Students

4/25/2025

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What are some essential life skills and how can you as a teacher help your high school students build these essential skills? With experiential learning! This post offers some life skills example projects to inspire you! Let’s take a look!

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How to Unlock Student Potential with Experimental Inquiry in Education

4/8/2025

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If you've been hanging around my blog for a while, you know that inquiry-based learning is one of the pillars of experiential education. 

It’s student-centered, empowering, and deeply engaging. 
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One of the most powerful forms of inquiry-based learning that I personally use all the time in my high school science seminars is experimental inquiry.

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20 Innovative Mental Health Awareness Month Activities for Students

4/2/2025

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Awareness around mental health has evolved significantly over recent years. The stigma around mental health has changed dramatically between now and when I was a child, but there's still more work to be done, especially as it relates to teen mental health. Inside this post, you'll find 20 mental health awareness activities for students!

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How to Help Students Build 21st-Century Skills with Inquiry-Based Learning Strategies

3/17/2025

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Creating opportunities in the classroom for students to build 21st-century skills should be a priority for today's educators. ALL of them.

How do you infuse 21st-century skills seamlessly into the curriculum or learning day? I like to promote 21st-century skill-building with inquiry-based learning strategies.

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What are 21st-Century Skills in Education and Why are They So Important to Teach?

3/11/2025

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What are 21st century skills in education? Teaching 21st-century skills to 21st-century learners is essential and this blog post shares why.
What are 21st-century skills in education and why are they so darn important to teach to our kids and teens? In short, these skills are essential for modern day life and the workplace. Therefore, teaching 21st- century skills, in my experience, is as important, if not more (unpopular opinion) than teaching content.

But why? Let me paint you a little picture...

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How To Scaffold Inquiry-Based Learning in the Classroom with One Super Simple Question

3/10/2025

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Do your students often look for the easy way out, asking you for answers instead of searching for them? That mindset contradicts the essence of classroom inquiry-based learning.

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Top 12 Young Adult Books for High School Women's Studies Units

3/4/2025

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About ten years ago I picked up a book called "Half the Sky". Within the first chapter I read this quote: "More than 100 million women are missing..." at any given time. This is because of trafficking, gendercide, domestic violence, etc. This quote, and this book, really struck me. I mentioned it, and the PBS documentary that goes along with it, to a few of my high school students.

​They were interested, largely because many of the issues resonated with them personally. These students led project-based learning experiences on some of the issues and shared their final products with the school community. 
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