More choices and complexity for student work. Assessment strategies that increase self-assessment. Live Events Live events use students to design, solve, build, construct, modify, and experiment.
Most extracurricular activities are live events.
When cheerleaders purchase 1,000 seat cushions with the school mascot printed on them and can't sell them, the consequences are as real as they are in any business. As classrooms move to live events and students recognize the consequences, the quality of their work is likely to increase. At a nursing home they got the chance to interact with Alzheimer's patients. This helped them internalize information about the health field. Each student and adult had his or her own address, all listed in the school directory.