School Portrait
The School Portrait is a framework for capturing and reflecting on various dimensions of school. It can serve as a rapid assessment tool, or as a tool to identify areas for further community science investigations.
Community Science Competency
Community Science Competency
Curriculum Overload – Improvement
Curriculum Overload is a complex phenomena in which schools face challenges in creating adaptive learning environments for students.
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Analyzing social-ecological systems
In this lesson, students analyze a select real-world social-ecological system by looking at factors of the resource(s) and ecosystem, resource user behaviors, and governance, to develop recommendations for improving the sustainable management of the resource.
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Eirdosh, D., Hanisch, S. (2023). A Community Science Model for Inter-disciplinary Evolution Education and School Improvement. In: du Crest, A., Valković, M., Ariew, A., Desmond, H., Huneman, P., Reydon, T.A.C. (eds) Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines. Synthese Library, vol 478. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33358-3_7
The Community Science Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology is developing a unique model of Community-Based Cultural Evolution (CBCE) for inter-institutional collaboration at the intersection of evolution education and applied school improvement efforts. Using advances in teaching for conceptual understanding and transfer of learning, the CBCE model aims to empower students to clarify, investigate, and collaboratively influence the cultural evolutionary dynamics of their own school and surrounding communities.
Values clarification
Clarifying values and sense of purpose can be a strategy for improving school culture, academic, and social-emotional learning.
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Develop University-Assisted Community Schools
Develop University-Assisted Community Schools as an outgrowth of Educational Innovation Labs
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Explore possibilities to re-organize the scope or sequence of curriculum delivery to achieve valued improvements
Using an analogy of epi-genetic expression in relation to the cultural genome of the school curriculum, educators and school stakeholders (including students) may explore possibilities to strategically organize the scope or sequence of the curriculum for a give class, subject, grade level or grade band.
Develop a lower secondary school training program on interdisciplinary perspectives in moral psychology
Develop a lower secondary school training program on deeper and more interdisciplinary perspectives in moral psychology
Prosocial Youth Self-Study
The core self-study module for entering the Prosocial Youth ecosystem of ideas and resources.
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