Polaris Passion Projects are out of this world
Channel: The Tarrant Institute for Innovative Education
Date: 2019-05-21

What does self-directed learning look like?

Soup to nuts, curiosity projects -- Genius Hour, 20% time or passion projects by any other name -- work for students. 

At Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School, in South Burlington VT, this year's Curiosity Projects ran the gamut from robots to cooking shows, electromagnetic studies to YouTube economics. Educators on the Polaris team provided the support and structure, and students put in the work. The result? Students share what makes self-directed learning work for them.