Tufts CEEO and LEGO Foundation are doing grant projects differently. Here’s how their collaborative approach is transforming educational outcomes.
Imagine: a classroom of desks in orderly rows, teacher up front, delivering a lecture. Some students take notes and perhaps nod along, but others doodle, daydream, or appear distracted. This behavior is common in classrooms everywhere, said Hasin Shakya, the director of Karkhana Samuha, a Nepali non-profit whose mission is to advance innovation in education among marginalized communities in Nepal. His organization augments Nepal’s national STEM curricula by providing schools with PEBL Toolkits that empower teachers to bring hands-on, play-based learning into their classrooms because, he said, “students learn best when they are creating, when they are using their hands, when they are playing.”
In 2021, Karkhana…
