
Practice Makes Perfect
The SEL Blog
In a month-long summer school course, middle school students will design and build an app that will allow anyone to play a city-wide scavenger hunt on their mobile phones. The students will ride bikes gathering digital media that tells stories about their community. They will evaluate and adjust their work plans using a software sprint development model. Throughout the course, students will be given increasingly more control over how they plan their day. By the end, they will run the entire program as a group, without instructor support. The students will learn leadership, teamwork and compassion for themselves and others.
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Rosalia Burson
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Mary Muroski
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Kara Menfi
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Nisha Sensharma
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Jenni Johnson
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Bettany Valsin
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Dana Wrann
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Noah Siegler
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