The superintendent of Utica Community Schools in Sterling Heights, Michigan, Dr. Christine Johns has fostered academic excellence for 12 years, in part by spearheading efforts to achieve a 93.6% graduation rate. To this end, Superintendent Dr. Christine Johns participates in Digital Promise, a nonprofit created in 2008 to enhance progressive learning opportunities.
Guiding the Digital Promise program is Challenge Based Learning (CBL), in which students, families, and teachers cooperate to explore significant ideas and issues. CBL works by employing experiential learning with new practices in computer technology and media. Students of the program combine classroom activities with critical reflection, discussion, and writing.
CBL guide students through three phases:
- Engage. Students learn to translate abstract concepts into practical action steps.
- Investigate. Participants collaborate in considering solutions while meeting academic benchmarks.
- Act. Learners develop evidence-based solutions for results-oriented evaluation.
Practitioners will meet in July 2019 for the Digital Promise Challenge Institute in Monterey, California. The event will create a peer network between educators and leaders to encourage innovations specific to participants’ schools and districts.
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