Issues Building an Innovative School

We are transforming how students experience school in Philadelphia. At The U School, students are given real world opportunities to apply knowledge and fulfill their greatest potential. In our pilot years, this work has presented many challenges. Our goal is to integrate problem-based learning and design spaces into a competency-based high school. Our guiding vision is "We Love. We Dream. We Do." But how can we break ingrained habits and paradigms in order to change the way that students experience school? During this Problem Solver session, we will collaborate with K-12 administrators, teachers, and students who are doing, or want to do, school differently.