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Dave is a Reach Teacher (Public Impact Success By Design). Dave graduated from University of Delaware in 2006 with a Bachelor’s in Elementary Education (PreK-8). Since then he has taught in high-poverty areas of Richmond and Charlotte. His biggest successes in education so far are starting a grassroots campaign called 40 Book Project, piloting 1 of only 50 global Imagination Chapters, and working with TEACH Charlotte as a Seminar Instructor.
He’s currently building a Wonder Lab at Shamrock Gardens Elementary School and conducting research with Charlotte Teachers Institute on Exercise and the Brain.
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Quotables
- Standards are seen as the ceiling, [where] in the Wonder Lab standards are seen as the floor.
- Less input from me and more output from [students].
- Change the question.
Dave’s Stamp of Approval
- Caine’s Arcade
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U
- Lynda Berry’s 4 Minute Journal
- http://thenearsightedmonkey.tumblr.com/post/17159582607/why-is-it-so-hard-to-keep-up-a-diary-it-isnt
- Tony Wagner’s Essential Skills
- http://www.tonywagner.com/7-survival-skills
- Ricky Singh at Charlotte Lab School
- http://www.charlottelabschool.org/#/reimagining-school
- Skype in the Classroom
- https://education.skype.com/
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