Learning Unboxed

048 | Creating Real-World Implications for Grade-School Curricula | with Angela Forino

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Have you ever heard a kid ask, “But how will I use this in the real world?” Maybe you even asked that question yourself back in the day? This disconnect creates disengagement for a lot of kids, but that’s just the way these systems were designed — and that’s a big part of the broken system that needs to be changed.Luckily, there are amazing teachers like Angela Forino out there, a third-grade teacher at Reynoldsburg City Schools who has spent the last few years working on the Smart Teynoldsburg Project, a program endeavoring to make social studies activities more engaging and real-world.To learn more, visit: pastfoundation.orgResources:Smart Reynoldsburg Project: https://www.thisweeknews.com/news/20190422/reynoldsburg-school-board-oks-more-than-1m-worth-of-summer-projectsLearning Unboxed is produced in part by Crate MediaRecorded by Eric French at WOSU Studios in Columbus, Ohio