Love it when my learners use PBL in their messages to me. That’s some #pblsuccess FOR SURE! 😍

2nd Walnut Grove ES used engineering principles & artistic abilities like Alexander Calder did to create the base of their kinetic sculptures inspired by him. #DoYourPartForArtPBL 🖼️ #realworldlearning #futurereadyskills #theGrove #pblsuccess

Our 3rd Walnut Grove ES learners collaboratively sorting their research facts into meaningful categories to discover which Big Idea emerges for Part 2 of their Inductive Thinking Unit. #IconsOfDepthAndComplexity #theGrove #whyGT #rigor #IconsOfDepthAndComplexity

Round 2: draw a snowman challenge ☃️at the third annual #theGrove Reindeer Games

When your kid lives a bigger life than you do… 🙃 #timmy2025

peek = 🫣 peak = 🗻 pique = 👀

2nd Walnut Grove ES kinetic sculpture bases are cured and ready for the engineering business of creating a 3-D mobile inspired by the famous artist, Alexander Calder! #DoYourPartForArtPBL 🖼️#TPSPTimmy #TPSP #realworldlearning #theGrove

CanNOT wait 🙃for 3rd Walnut Grove ES to see the amazing growth 📏📈of the Tower Garden over Christmas Break ! #TowergardenPBL🍆🥒🍅🥬 #TPSPTimmy #TPSP #realworldlearning #theGrove

Art meets engineering in the “QUEST” for balance, inspired by Alexander Calder. Next up: naming the creations and bringing them together in a collaborative display. #DoYourPartForArtPBL 🖼️ #realworldlearning #futurereadyskills #TPSPTimmy #TPSP Walnut Grove ES

Upcoming 2nd Walnut Grove ES discussion on appropriate use of Artificial Intelligence: AI ➡️creates divergent titles Learners➡️create a title to fit the movement, balance, & feeling of their artwork #realworldlearning #authentictechnologyuse #TPSPTimmy #theGrove #DoYourPartForArt🖼️

4th Walnut Grove ES will act as Advertising Executives using real-world brands+local businesses to decide if traditional or digital marketing (or both) is the best option, bc HOW you market depends on WHAT you’re marketing. #MarketingDayPBL📈 #TPSPTimmy #TPSP #realworldlearning

Today 3rd Walnut Grove ES learned that eggplant 🍆 leaves grow big enough to use them as a HAT! 🙃 #TowergardenPBL #TPSPTimmy #TPSP #theGrove

“I liken the process of parenting a gifted kid to training a high-strung racehorse.” #IYKYK (plz notice this article doesn’t mention children forced to “study” to be gifted, or attend outside learning centers to practice an ability test) bc being gifted is not often a “gift”.