CHAPTER 10IT TAKES COURAGE
Although it was scary at first, I stepped outside the “traditional way of learning” box, because I wanted a way to reach all students without their thinking they will fail. You can't fail with Design-Based Learning.
—Elementary school teacher, Design-Based Learning Summer Institute for K–12 Teachers, 2011
Everyone says that thinking outside the box is valuable, but it takes courage to actually go outside the box and do something different.
Emily Tilton, a Language Arts and History teacher in an underserved Title I middle school in the Inland Empire, was in the sixth cohort group in the 1999 MA program with other K–12 teachers at Cal Poly, Pomona. Once a week, the class began with teachers describing how they had ...
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