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An umbrella project gathers our learning community under the canopy of a single idea. We all start at the same point – a multi–layered concept, topic, or question chosen by faculty – and delve deeply into it.
Teachers plan a series of initial experiences that draw students into the investigation and spark creative thinking. Students carry the inquiry forward through further exploration and discovery, developing synergies and shared perspectives that connect them to one another across classrooms and grade levels.
There are children who, when faced with a problem, take out the building materials and begin to play. They love to figure things out using real tools and real materials. These children are the engineers, the “mess-arounders,” and the eternally curious. This school year, we will follow their lead as we gather under the umbrella idea “tinkering.”
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