Learn with SPLASH at Yale!

This semester for 7th-12th graders, Splash will take place on November 11th, 2017. This is an exciting opportunity to promote learning in a fun environment! Our teachers lead classes in all subjects, ranging from particle physics to cookie science to improv comedy. Our classes are taught on the historic Yale campus by passionate students. Participants are encouraged to fill their day with incredible classes of their choice! For more information, please visit our website, yale.learningu.org. Students who are interested in the program should make an account on our website. They will then receive updates as we approach student registration, which will occur in mid-October. We work to promote and encourage student agency and self-direction at our programs, so to that end we ask educators and parents help us by having students decide independently whether or not to attend, as well as choose their own courses if they come. 

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Airing Tonight on PBS NewsHour: Walking in a Student's 

Shoes (An Education Week Report)

If you're like most principals, about 70 percent of your time is spent on the 3 B's-buses, budgets, and behavior. What if, instead, you spent a day walking in your students' shoes? How might that experience change the way you look at school?

This spring, more than 1,400 school leaders from all 50 states and over 26 countries set out to answer that question in the first Shadow a Student Challenge. The idea comes from a partnership between the Institute of Design at Stanford University and IDEO, a leading design firm that also works with schools.

Among those who accepted the challenge was Assistant Principal Karen Ritter of East Leyden High, outside Chicago. Watch her put aside her walkie-talkie and follow one 9th grader through all of his classes-not to mention gym, the lunch line, and a full slate of homework.

What did she learn? John Tulenko of Education Week has that story tonight on the PBSNewsHour.

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Read this recentEducation Weekstory on the Shadow a Student project and catch up on related coverage on the Rulesfor Engagement blog.