Understanding how existing educational systems operate (including curriculum, teaching, learning, and assessment systems) and designing more effective systemic approaches to schooling is an essential component of CRDG’s work. Faculty expertise in program research and evaluation enables CRDG to better understand…
A Systems Approach to Professional Development in Mathematics
The systems approach to teaching and learning informs all of CRDG’s work, but it is perhaps best exemplified in the professional development work conducted by the mathematics faculty. Within their projects, the research and professional development are so intertwined, with…
Partnering with HIDOE on Instructional Materials Selection Criteria and Professional Development Design
In 2010, CRDG continued its partnership with the Hawai‘i Department of Education (HIDOE) in an effort to improve standards-based education in Hawai‘i. Responding to teachers’ and administrators’ concerns about the Hawai‘i Content and Performance Standards III (HCPS III) and its…
Learning Landscapes for Teaching Science and Sustainability
Something exciting is taking place at the University Laboratory School: worms are eating garbage, fish are feeding plants, butterflies are living in luxury and kids are learning first hand that a sustainable future is possible. Projects throughout the school are…
ULS Part of a Network of Sustainability and Peace
Dame Julia Morton-Marr, part of the group PeaceWomen Across the Globe that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005, visited the ULS on October 18, 2010 to rededicate the school’s Peace Garden and help inaugurate a new Peace Path.…