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Celebrate Learning!
In the 1960s, World of Inquiry School #58 opened as a progressive, inquiry-based school in the Rochester City School District, and for...
Steven Levy
May 5, 20224 min read


Nurturing the Caterpillar: Ten Characteristics of Young Learners
A few years ago, I worked with a wonderful group of educators at EL Education to craft the Characteristics of Primary Learners. These...
Steven Levy
Apr 28, 20229 min read


Navigating Through Rough Waters
During a school site visit in San Diego in March of 2022 at CDL5, I became fascinated by the fact that our school of interest was...
Kevin Huinink
Apr 19, 20225 min read


Are Your Students Crew or Passengers?
We are Crew, not Passengers. This is the motto of the organization I worked with for 20 years, Expeditionary Learning, now called EL...
Steven Levy
Apr 14, 20223 min read


You Are What You Teach
Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you are saying. Ralph Waldo Emerson These people honor me with their lips, but their...
Steven Levy
Mar 24, 20225 min read


The Hook: What’s in a Name?
The original version of this article was published on the CACE Blog on July 24, 2019. The language we use has a real power to influence...
Steven Levy
Feb 3, 20225 min read


Powerful Instructional Practices
A version of this article was previously published on the CACE Blog on February 27, 2018. “It is nothing but a pious wish and a grossly...
Steven Levy
Jan 20, 20224 min read


Three Dimensions of Learning Part II: Core Practices in the Dimensions of Learning
The contents of this article build on the excellent work of EL Education’s Dimensions of Student Achievement and were first published by...
Justin Cook
Jan 11, 20223 min read


Three Dimensions of Learning Part I: Three Dimensions Defined
The contents of this article build on the excellent work of EL Education’s Dimensions of Student Achievement and were first published by...
Justin Cook
Jan 9, 20227 min read


The Many Roads to Christian Deeper Learning: The EL Education Model
This article was originally published on the CACE Blog on July 14, 2020. In this series, we spotlight six particular approaches, or...
Steven Levy
Sep 30, 20215 min read
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