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Engaging Education for Everyone
Our project hopes to create a software that allows Chinese students to learn academic concepts through rewarding interactions with animated instructions. -
Thrively Health
At Thrively Health, our mission is to democratize health by empowering women in making better care decisions for themselves and their family. -
ACE: Accelerating Civic Engagement
ACE seeks to reignite civic engagement nationally by empowering individuals to learn about, participate in, and lead their local communities. -
Enriching learning through student-led provocation
Though Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Lecturer on History and Literature, Public Policy, and Education, plays an integral role in class discussions for his course Stories of Slavery and Freedom, students are responsible for leading the majority of classes through an exercise McCarthy refers to as “provocation.” “The provokers do not come in and give a summary of what we’ve read or a mini-lecture about the top-line themes that might emerge from the assigned readings. I really want them to find some way to literally provoke us into conversation, get the juices flowing, and try to get all the students to think about something urgently at the outset of class.” -
Our Voices Matter
The purpose of this project is to teach public speaking and advocacy skills to low-income middle school students of color. -
Using faculty videos in required courses to engage students at all levels
Like many instructors of required courses, Pinar Dogan, Lecturer in Public Policy and SLATE Faculty Liaison for Pedagogy, teaches her section of Markets and Market Failure to students with significantly divergent levels of prior knowledge of microeconomics. Seeking a way for students “to end up at the same place even though they started at very different places,” Dogan partnered with SLATE to develop videos of Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) faculty experts explaining the relevance of math-intensive or potentially dry concepts (e.g., fixed costs or price elasticity) to public policy. -
C2B: Classroom to Boardroom
C2B seeks to provide an immersive training program designed in close collaboration with rapidly growing industries (i.e. tech-focused companies). Awardees want to help organizations recruit and retain talents that will help increase productivity and achieve higher rate of sustainable growth. -
Grow.Us
Through training in soft and hard skills, awardees prepare students to work on projects in a summer internship. -
Applying the science of behavior change to lesson planning
Todd Rogers, Professor of Public Policy, teaches students in MLD304 The Science of Behavior Change to leverage insights about human decision making and develop interventions through carefully constructed class activities and facilitated discussion, such as randomized experiments and think-pair-share brainstorms, respectively. -
Using digital resources to augment course materials
Theodore Svoronos, lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, developed digital-learning materials as part of the Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence (BCURE) project and now uses them for both residential and online-learning communities.
