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Attention: Teachers! Download a free curriculum toolkit to run The Future of Electric Transportation Design Challenge with students

Construct - Unleash the Joy of Learning Unleash the joy of learning

Future of Food Portland Breakers are partnering with New Seasons Market to develop their product from last summer: Ugly Jam!

Student Breakers Collaborate with New Seasons Students who participated in the Future of Food design challenge sponsored by Construct Foundation and Breaker are seeing their product idea come to life through a partnership with New Seasons Market.

Excellent. I would have loved to been asked that as a kid.

Do you know a design-minded educator with hustle? Breaker is hiring in Portland, OR http://www.breaker.org/wanted/

WANTED | Breaker

Denmark Might Be Winning The Global Race To Prevent Food Waste According to a recent report from the Danish government, Danes now throw away 25 percent less food than they did five years ago. Supermarkets are doing their part by selling older food at a discount.

Time is running out for the chance to register for our September Breakaway Workshop! Add design-thinking, valuable interpersonal connections, and a new mindset to your educational repertoire and join us today!

http://www.breaker.org/breakaway-workshops/

Breakaway Workshops | Breaker RECHARGE AND REFRAME YOUR CURRICULA/SYSTEMS/SPACES Are you an educator looking to innovate in your classroom and beyond – eager to learn new methods and

Checkout alum elem school course, dev through a wkshp. Blog:http://bit.ly/1JauKo7 Vid: http://bit.ly/1E8pcLL

Innovators for Purpose | Creative Doing that Reignites, Rebuilds & Re-inspires... Innovators for Purpose (iFp) is a nonprofit that uses innovative methods to reignite the dreams of our youth, to rebuild positive influences in broken families

Hot off the press (and we got a shout-out): Most Likely to Succeed by http://ow.ly/R9sUb

‘Most Likely to Succeed,’ by Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith A vision of education for an entrepreneurial America.

In high school one of my teachers believed that 7:30am should be reclassified as BT (Before Time) for teenagers because we were all still practically asleep during the first part of our first periods.

Why Does the School Day Start So Early? For the first time ever, the CDC is chiming in: Schools should push back start times for the sake of kids’ health and academic achievement.

Whoa. According to a meta-analysis of 1200 meta-analyses of education interventions the following do not show significant impact on student achievement:
1. Achievement Standards
2. Achievement Tests
3. School Choice
4. Class SIze.
5. More Money

5 Big Ideas That Don't Work In Education A famous researcher slams popular ideas in a controversial new paper.

"I didn't want students to just read about citizenship. I wanted them to be citizens."

How PBL Creates Engaged Citizens Check out how high school seniors took on the role of federal lobbyists and learned how bills become laws through project-based learning.

Check out some of our Breakers' prototype iterations from our Future of Food Challenge in Portland, Oregon!