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08/24/2021

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

Unleash the joy of learning

08/12/2016

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

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.

06/09/2016

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

10/14/2015

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

09/02/2015

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.

09/01/2015

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/

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

08/27/2015

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

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

08/25/2015

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

A vision of education for an entrepreneurial America.

08/20/2015

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.

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.

08/14/2015

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

A famous researcher slams popular ideas in a controversial new paper.

08/10/2015

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

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

08/06/2015

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