By Breanna Morsadi There’s a lot of talk lately around the future of education. With many leaning into hybrid learning due to the pandemic, new considerations for best practice in education have more recently come to light. What these practices share is they put students at the center of their…

How do I know? — By Breanna Morsadi When introducing students to project based learning (PBL), we often get pushback. Students moan, “Can’t you just tell us the answer?”, “Why is this so hard?”, or “Why do we have to do this?” Understandably, I would lash out too if I didn’t know the benefits of…

TED inspires student passion projects — By Breanna Morsadi I felt the true power of learner-centered education for the first time around ten years ago. My students from THINK Global School had just presented their own TED style talks to a local community in Athens, Greece, and had brought the audience to laughter, tears, and critical…

Negative correlation proves students associate the difficulty of active learning with feelings of learning less — By Breanna Morsadi Extensive research supports that students in active environments learn more than in passive, lecture based classrooms. Despite these findings, most institutions still follow traditional teaching methods. In addressing why schools remain resistant to active learning, the 2019 PNAS research correlates that while “students in active classrooms learn…

Headrush helps chart and track independent paths of study — By Breanna Morsadi Article originally published by Community Health Magazine, Educational Services and Staff Development Association of Central Kansas (ESSDACK), Autumn 2020 Even before the pandemic, rural communities were wrestling with how to expand educational options to students without having access to resources, funding, and additional specialty teachers. …

How PBL in local communities nurtures more empathetic leaders and creative problem-solvers — By Gaia Ines Fassò Learning is an experience. Social. Emotional. Multi-sensory. It took nothing short of a global pandemic to re-centre the educational discourse around this important premise. But what kind of experiences foster effective, lasting learning? During the lockdowns, I have been interviewing students around the world about their…

By Breanna Morsadi Writer Antony Jay poses that “The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.” With 850 million students having migrated to remote learning last spring, and in anticipating more COVID related school closures this fall, many schools and…

Empower your Learning Community — By Breanna Morsadi and Chloë Fraser Cultivating a learner-centric environment isn’t always easy. With COVID lingering and back-to-school plans in full swing, are we taking the time to bring our learning communities together? By creating opportunities for school-wide challenges, collaboration, and co-design, we can unite our learning communities, fuel intrinsic…

dis-PLACEd Guide to Fall Planning — By Breanna Morsadi With an unprecedented displacement in education, there are many conversations — formal and informal — contemplating what to do next. One of those conversations happened as a group of educationalists gathered to discuss plans for fall and beyond by asking, “How will we co-create new places of…