GUERILLA EDUCATORS IS DEDICATED TO REALTIME EDUCATIONAL BEST PRACTICES IN ACTION. WE ARE A GLOBAL LEADER IN THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF EFFECTIVE PROJECT BASED LEARNING ON THE FRONTLINES IN AND OUT OF CLASSROOMS. WE ALSO CONNECT EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES PLANNERS WITH THE TEACHERS/LEARNERS WHO USE THOSE SPACES.
This video is a Project Based Service Learning compilation of 5 world class projects conducted by students across a variety of grade levels at 4 public schools in Philadelphia. The thread running through the projects in this film is that they are all centered around various aspects of green, sustainable themes and activities. You will witness in about 10 compelling minutes, projects which have taken over 200 hours to complete, from planning through to reporting out/celebration. Take a look...
These projects, in total, authentically delineate many of the 12 Hallmarks of Effective Teaching and Learning and demonstrate some of the reasons that PBSL is the most effective pedagogical strategy for ALL students to achieve at rigorous levels.
The grand finale of the first Scott Collegiate Dinner Theater
was an original rap called "So Far, So Good." The song is about life in
what Macleans Magazine called "Canada's Worst Neighbourhood." The song
was written by three students at Scott in response to their home's
dubious (and inaccurate) "claim to fame". Take a look...
Canadian Idol'sFarley Flex was at Scott Collegiate recently to assist Scott Principal Mr. Rod Allen, students and teachers in a hands-on, project based educational initiative beginning in the '08-'09 school year called "Project Hip Hop". Read all about it in the Regina Leader Post. Click here to go to the Scott Hip Hip blog.
To see other student created hip hop videos, take a look at this...
The Fielding Nair Internationaldesign team returned to the beautiful city of Regina, in Saskatchewan, Canada to continue working with the Steering Committee there to assist in the re-design of the community of North Central. This video documents our meeting in April, '08 that continues to refine the vision for the project. Take a look...
As part of the design team focused on the educational aspects of the North Central project, we here at Guerilla Educators address the incredible opportunities that the re-design will have on the neighborhood by an exercise in imagining. The list below, in no particular order, is a synthesis of outcomes developed after listening to and working with the North Central Shared Facility Steering Committee.
Imagine…
• Imagine teaching and learning spaces that connect directly and authentically to the community. • Where students learn by addressing real-world issues that are important to them in a variety of ways. • Where they have ownership in their educational processes. • Where they are engaged, invested, and interested in what and how they learn. • Where they achieve mastery of grade appropriate curricular objectives across a variety of disciplines. • Where daily attendance and participation at their Personalized Learning Communities becomes a vital part of the student’s day (rather than the opposite being true). • Where their Service Learning projects allow them to see citizenship/leadership modeled from their world-class Community Partners. • Where development of good citizenship skills is part of the fabric of teaching and learning and becomes critical to the long term, real-life success of our students. • Where these civic skills enhance and give greater depth, context and meaning to student mastery of curriculum and standards. • Where students who are working cooperatively to successfully realize the goals of a project are more inclined to negotiate with their peers and make persuasive arguments to get their point of view adopted by the group. • Where the cooperative nature of small groups working together for successful completion of the project has an extremely positive effect on the classroom climate and where behavior issues are significantly mitigated. • Where students are motivated to succeed. • Where critical thinking, hypothesis, trial and error, and extension of learning become commonplace pedagogical strategies. • Where teaching and learning happens in a safe, nurturing environment in the midst of a vital, active community. • Where law enforcement is perceived as a vital community asset and students are mentored by police officers. • Where the rich diversity of cultures, including First Nations, Meti, and European are mutually respected and cooperatively enhance, reinforce, and inform teaching, learning, and citizenship development in our students. • Where all of the Community Partners in the Shared Facility work together for the greater good and improvement in the quality of life of North Central. • Where technology (the no.2 pencil of the 21st century) is suffused throughout all teaching and learning initiatives. • Where ALL learners are expected to demonstrate proficiency at rigorous levels of literacy and numeracy –no excuses- and teachers have the resources and professional training to guide them in achieving mastery of those skills. • Where Business, Industry, and Government sectors actively seek out our graduates for leadership positions based on their Project Based Service Learning experiences in high school.
In September, 2007 a team from Fielding Nair International led a series of Discovery Workshops at Scott Collegiate High School in the North Central community of Regina, Saskatchewan (Download Scott_Discovery_Report.pdf). Guerilla Educators Founder, John Sole is part of the FNI team. The workshops consisted of a half day on site tours with school administrators, students, and North Central community partners. The Shared Vision that came from the September workshops deal with more effectively serving the present and future needs of Scott Collegiate's students within the realities of the North Central neighborhood. Scott's central role was affirmed within the larger context of a more inclusive community design which consists of increased community integration and participation, focused resources delivery for the Scott Collegiate family, and public health services to include physician care, midwifery, mental health and addiction services and other community outreach programs. The consensus Essential Question that emerged from these sessions can be framed in the following way; "What does "school" mean within the rich context of an engaged and integrated community facility". The FNI team will return to Regina in mid April, 2008 to continue dialogue and focus with the various Community Partners in North Central to prepare for an action plan going forward.
The Alliance to Save Energy's Green Schools program is a nationwide initiative that teaches students the importance of energy conservation.In Green Schools projects, students design realtime strategies for their schools to save energy. This video documents a Green Schools training for Philadelphia educators that was given in 2003. Take a look...
Many energy based projects were conducted in schools across the School District of Philadelphia as a result of this training. Here is a compilation of realtime activities from a project whose teachers were part of the training in the video, above. The project took place in an inner city middle school. Take a look...
These 2 videos show an authentic cycle from teacher training through student reporting out of a very strong Service Learning project.
In this video, Randall Fielding uses Edward de Bono's "6 Thinking Hats" with the stakeholders in Regina, Saskatchewan as they work through the processes of transforming the way they teach and learn in the Regina School District and beyond. Take a look...
Guerilla Educators is privileged to work with Randy and all the good people at Fielding Nair International.
This video is part of a workshop given to a diverse
group of stakeholders in the School District of Regina, Saskatchewan.
Representatives from
the community, students, educators, administrators, architectural
design, and aboriginal groups participated in the event presented by the Fielding Nair International team.
Contact us here at Guerilla Educators for cutting edge Educational Facilities Design Solutions that work. We'll work with you every step of the way.
Recently, Randy Fielding led a team from Fielding Nair International to the city of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. The FNI team met with educators and other interested community stakeholders to begin the process of making Regina Learning Centres more effective places to educate students. This video depicts a site visit to Scott Collegiate High Schooland a meeting with the great students there. It's significant that the first stakeholder group sought out by Randy was the student voices. Take a look... «
This project is unique in that the interested parties in Regina, from educational administrators to teachers to community groups to students to the indigenous peoples want a systemic, transformative change in their educational processes. The task then for Fielding Nair International will be to design their signature world class educational facilities to work with the educators as they begin the heavy lifting of delivering more effective teaching and learning to their students. The stakeholders want nothing less than for Scott Collegiate to be the change agent in the North Central Neighborhood to address many of the pressing needs of that Regina community which interfere with student achievement. Guerilla Educators is proud to be working with FNI and Regina Schoolsto assist in the effort to make Regina Public Schools a beacon of hope on the Canadian Prairie.
This project was conducted in a 5th grade Madison Wisconsin public school. We think it has value from a variety of educational perspectives. Take a look...
The project demonstrates the full spectrum of the project based learning methodology, from teacher planning to student participation to final reporting out/celebration. The students presented their finished designs to a group of school architects, planners, and designers which added a powerful level of real-world authenticity. With special thanks to Dr. Jeff Lackney.
In this video, 2nd grade students from an inner city public school in South Philadelphia are involved in a horticultural project. With critical support from the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, these students learned about the many aspects trees and the environment. The project also afforded many opportunities to achieve curricular proficiencies across a variety of disciplines. Take a look...
When their saplings were large enough half of the trees went back to the community and the other half stayed in the forest to enhance the native tree population there. This video is another clear example of the power of Project Based Service Learning in action.
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