SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. — Students at a Spokane Valley elementary school are using a special room inside the school to bring their assignments to life.
The word is right there on the front of the building: “Progress” Elementary School. It is a fitting name to a school moving beyond elementary level expectations.
Students at Progress take elective courses like high school students.
“I walk down the hallway and the kids are like, ‘Mr. Johnson, Mr. Johnson when are we coming to the maker space next?'” said Ross Johnson, teacher of innovation at Progress Elementary.
The instructors who teach the electives often use a room called the “maker space,” which Johnson runs.
“In here the students aren’t necessarily confined to certain rules or procedures, they have the chance to explore their own ways of learning and unique, kind of nuances to how they want to do things,”Johnson said.
“We can make…
