wordsmithing – New Learning Infrastructure

68. Creating an Enlightened Local Curriculum

This district’s teachers model those characteristics and behaviors. They create dynamic classroom activities in which students sense the value of their own talents — as extensions of the society in which they are a significant part.

61. Wordsmithing and Curricular Centrality

Real learning is the product of both cognitive and emotional engagement. A kind of connectedness that transforms us. Even transcends our mundane existence into a panoply of possibilities.

60. The Wordsmithing Begins

For content to be meaningful in a curriculum there must be a clear expression of what will influence a change — in student perspective, performance, or deep knowledge.