(1) Auburn Early Education Center in Auburn, Alabama -- Kindergarten classes do student-initiated multi-month investigations using both online and book resources! Every classroom has an interactive white board -- maps of Brazil, video clip of giant anaconda, etc.!
(2) "More Fun than a Barrel of. . .Worms?" -- A project-based elem. school. Kids highly engaged. Two big, publicly presented projects per class per year. Lots of curriculum interwoven; other stuff taught separately if it's really not related. Teachers say much more work (to structure experiences so that learning standards are met), but much more rewarding. (My redesigning-the-library-chairs project was supposed to be like this, though on a much smaller level. I am running into snags about whether or not anything can actually be done once we have results from our data, though. And, time is always an issue.)
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