Common Core and PBL (pt. 2)
The question: Must the Common Core State Standards create upheaval amongst math and ELA teachers who want to define it as “one more thing”—another fad that will lead to chaos? The answer: Not if [...]
Common Core and PBL
As this new blog finds its way through the worlds of STEM education, issues of STEM equity (STEM justice), project-based learning, and school reform, it’s time for a few words about the people [...]
Human Centered Design
Human-centered design is such an important aspect of the design process that it has earned its own acronym: HCD. When engineers look through the HCD lens, they acknowledge the primacy of human [...]
Increasing Diversity in Biomedical Research
In 2009, four TAF Academy students left their small, secluded campus in Federal Way for an imposing complex of buildings on 15 acres of south Lake Union to begin internships at the Fred [...]
Inside PBL: Zero Sum Project
When you enter The Zero Sum Game, you have to be ready—ready to negotiate, ready to form alliances, ready to persuade other countries to do business with you. You are Russia, India, Saudi Arabia, [...]
TAF Academy students work with Blackpast.org
Dr. Quintard Taylor, professor at UW, reached out to TAF to request some student help on updating and maintaining his side project, an online database for all things African American, [...]
Fred Hutchinson looking for new TAF Academy interns
Next year will be the third year that we will be selecting new nominees for the Fred Hutchinson Internship Program. The program was created by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) for [...]
TAF Academy is recruiting future students to be tomorrow’s leaders.
TAF Academy recruiting is in full swing. Hosting students and parents, from near and far, as they check out our innovative learning space. Over 200 5th grade students, teachers, and parents have [...]
Building Furniture Out of Cardboard
For the first semester, a class of TAF Academy middle school students were challenged to build usable furniture out of cardboard. Easy, you say? Well, they weren’t allowed to use glue, [...]
