American Daughters Collective’s Challenge Based Learning Framework.
This Challenge Based Learning (CBL) framework provides an opportunity for young people to solve some of society’s most pressing problems. It allows for collaboration and reciprocity among students, teachers, and community members. The process starts by engaging young and adult learners through a shared experience and then moves through an indefinite cycle of learning: planning, working and reflecting. A CBL experience culminates in a presentation to a real and natural audience.
Are Womxn the Answer to Climate Change? Curriculum
This interdisciplinary student-facing lesson set explores the climate crisis in the context of one’s own identities. It challenges young people to investigate the root of each problem they discover, seek environmental justice, and promote ancestral ways of interacting with the land. This lesson set aligns with learning progressions I organized for high school level curriculum around cross-disciplinary competencies and concepts that reflect the science of learning.
Restoration 61 Self-Esteem Learning Modules built with Rise 360.
An outdated, college-level curriculum from the 90s was converted to a modern-day self-esteem building experience that appeals to a diverse group of trafficking survivors. Initiated during a global pandemic by Restoration 61, an anti-trafficking organization in Chicago, a new approach to this project was needed: curriculum that can be taught 100% in person, 100% virtually, or through a hybrid model.
All Girls Considered’s Inquiry-based Learning Model.
Leaning on Mezirow’s Transformative Learning theory, the All Girl’s Considered inquiry-based learning framework puts learners in disorienting dilemmas that challenge their assumptions and worldviews. Through critical analysis learners come to new understandings about themselves and the world around them. They take action within an intergenerational coalition to effect change and reenter their lives having transformed their communities and themselves.
