Present.

Today is Day 3 of the LEAP Summit, and the team from HTH (Mike, Kristin, and myself) were asked to present a workshop on project-based learning. I confess to being wicked nervous to do this. I knew that I would be walking into a completely different culture, with different histories and ideas, and I am not PBL's biggest fan or anything. I have probably never felt least prepared to do a presentation, even though it was about something that I know very well.

The day was full of workshops, each one being repeated three times.
For the first session, the room began to fill up, and the LEAP director and visionary John Gilmour was in our session. We did an introduction, and then a journal on meaningful learning experiences, and through our sharing, I realized that we have so much in common, despite everything that is different.

Mike, Kristin and I each shared a project that we'd done, and I showed Oscar's poem and talked about the Word on the Street project. When we concluded, people were legitimately excited. Not to just take what we'd done, but to try to find ways to bring it into what they were already doing.

The day was exhausting, as teaching often is, but I felt so happy to be a part of their energetic conversations and their dreaming for something different in their classrooms and their community.

Learning is Doing: An introduction to project-based learning (A PowerPoint by Mike, Kristin & Kay)