good afternoon Alex and I are thrilled
to be here today and we are really
looking forward to sharing with you
exactly how I go about this
so as Alex said I wanted to develop a
project based on something I had done at
the university level so a little bit um
about our inspiration when I was at the
University of Puget Sound
I had a great administration in that
administration they would take any idea
that you had and try to make it work so
what I did is I asked them to keep my
class size at ten this is a money-losing
project for the university and they
agreed and I got one of my corporate
partners in my lab Crocs in this case to
send a vice-president a developer a
designer a head of marketing for a whole
week and they spent a week with my kids
and my kids who are allowed in that week
to design a product the product was in
taken by the designer to China and it
was developed they brought it back by
hand so he wouldn’t have to do the
shipping and then we tested it but with
ten students this is a pretty easy thing
to do and when you develop and you come
here and suddenly I have 78 students how
do you keep all of those students
engaged in something so this was kind of
where I was going with how do i how do I
take something an award-winning class
and how do I make that class something
that was going to inspire students who
are much younger so last year I decided
to put out a call to my old graduates
and I’m an old woman so I have lots of
kids and they’re not kids anymore
they’re in their 40s and I have lots of
people out there doing things and so
what I decided I would do is I would let
the students in each class interview
three people and they could interview
these people and decide on a project and
what that person
got let’s click on chases and so on in
chases case for instance chases a
company called sway chase graduated in
2006 he went to Austria with me to
present he said so engaging
he’s an engaging young man positive
funny smart the kids interviewed him
didn’t want to interview anybody else
said they were done and so they grabbed
sway and was sway it’s the only
concussion protocol in the United States
that’s approved by the FDA
so it’s essentially being run in all
high schools and all professional sports
and he wanted to know if you had an it
on an iPhone and you were doing reaction
time or balance was that the same as
doing it with a mini iPad or an iPad so
he said can you tell me the answer to
this and he’s asking the kids to run all
these studies but in the end what he
gets is my knowledge for free so he’s a
willing character and the classes will
in character so about four times during
the year the kids would store up
questions and chase would Skype in with
us and engage them and we would get
answers but they all got the app down on
their phone and they ran a home and it
was anybody here was anybody tested last
year kids parents grandparents we hit
y’all okay so we got this really great
project and then the second group chose
Chris and Chris is on four businesses
now bought and sold them and current at
the current time he was doing something
called laser light low-level therapy and
it is to reduce pain and injury in
professional athletes most adult
professional athletes and the
manufacturer is supposed to do it for
four days but he said you know is there
a difference if I do five six days and
am I gonna get a reduction in pain still
so should I keep doing it so there’s a
certain set of skills that we needed to
do and learn in the classroom in order
to test it so with that the kids needed
to learn something about how cells work
and how cells reproduce and how injury
works and how pain works so they did a
lot of reading in the original research
I was annoyed at this at first but with
you know careful stepping through it the
students caught right on
and then the third project is a project
I thought was going to go really well
and it didn’t wasn’t a failure but it
wasn’t as engaging as the other two
projects and I had Mike bond he was my
first thesis student and his wife Laura
they work for the United States Olympic
Committee in ski and snowboard and they
have a problem where when you test an
Olympic athlete they’re always going to
be in the 99th percentile physically so
no matter what you do everybody tests it
the same but when you’re standing in a
room full of Olympic athletes where do
you rank now so we needed to develop new
standards for just Olympic athletes and
so I thought the kids would really catch
on to this and Mike gave us virtual
tours of the Olympic Center did any he’s
a great guy and his wife is even more
engaging and we just couldn’t get it to
take and we couldn’t get it to take
because the data was too hard for the
kids to understand exactly what they
were collecting so I learned a lesson
okay so everything has a failure and
everything has a success so from this I
wanted to do a project this year and the
first group I offered the project to was
a group um was my sixth period I think
and I end or my seventh period and I
said you know I gave them all these
choices and whenever you give my
students choices they always choose the
baby tortoises okay so I always so all
year long I’ve been dealing so then when
they chose that then my sixth period
want it and then my third period wanted
it so pretty soon I was just doing baby
tortoises morning noon and night for a
year um this is one of my passions
I am I volunteer in the Galapagos as I
retired from the University I said I
would give them six months over three
years I’ll complete that this summer
probably continue to go I go and I just
work at the center in the morning in the
afternoon I manage the data set so I
manage and make release protocol for who
gets released when we take them how much
it’s going to cost I kind of do the
budgeting in the
and how do we how do we get a list an
accurate list to see who’s being
released so I stopped better than
hearing from me so I had three different
groups doing it so I did three different
breeds there’s four different groups I
have 12 projects going on at any given
time so when Tommy comes to me and says
you know my project and they start
talking my eyes glaze over okay because
I’m like I don’t know what tortoise
you’re talking about nor what year so
you had to preface every time you
started to talk to me exactly what you
were talking about so I thought it was
really interesting and it’s a really
great project and with some great
results so I thought better than hearing
it from my perspective it might be great
to hear from one of my students so Alex
just gonna tell you a little bit about
his project and how it went and what he
learned from it okay thank you so I was
on a twelfth grader I’m a senior and I’m
a student of high Orloff for statistics
and well first the first semester for me
was coming into class with his teacher
who kept wearing tortoise earrings and
tortoise necklaces and kept talking
about the Galapagos and tortoises I
didn’t really understand what that was
going to build to but as I started to
learn all these statistical terms
correlation statistical variance
analysis of variance etc I started to
realize how these had some real-life
applications but far from this being
your regular math class where you just
take two classes than equals two classes
than a test the whole semester we were
building towards this final project in
which we were learning how the math we
were doing in class could apply to the
real world so what I did being the case
study for dr. Olaf’s approach to
learning was apply what we learned in
class to the Galapagos tortoise and this
was a great experience because it showed
how what I’m learning in class what I’m
learning about numbers can be applied to
the real world and that we
work with Cinco so tortoises which are
species of Galapagos tortoise and we
have to get a regression formula and
work with correlations to see how
they’re growing and although this might
sound boring and maybe just number-based
what was really interesting for me is
that it showed how with these formulas
you could help centers the conservation
centers know when they have to release a
tortoises and for them to be safe
outside of the conservation centers and
this is important because it saves a lot
of money and really this was a great
experience because you kind of in the
classroom you feel like you’re doing
something that goes beyond your
classroom and that’s going all the way
to Ecuador and the Galapagos and it’s
also a great experience because we had
to do research and we have to learn so
from just the teacher being defended the
phonetic of tortoises in the classroom
we all kind of grew into them because
the project consisted of having to look
at the literature that existed so we
have to look at how in 1974 there were
only 400 tortoises left and how today
the research centers are going are
having over 250 released every year so
that really shows how that’s changing
and learning from dr. Olaf and how she’s
been able to help these centers is
fascinating the research project also
consisted it was mainly two parts it was
this poster that you can see here which
isn’t made by me it’s my christine
Lozano
I’m artistically challenged so I bet the
paper is mine and in the paper I have an
abstract in which I explain what my
paper is I look at the literature and
then I cover the methods of how I how I
went about doing this but more
importantly for this this was really
important because it teaches students
skills that they’re gonna have to use in
the real world and when they go off to
college so I feel that that for a lot of
my classmates this was the first time
they were doing a full-blown research
project in which they had to have
citations which weren’t from Wikipedia
they had to come up with the good
sources they had to cite their images
they had to come up with the right
format and this really was a great
experience we have to combine graphs and
numbers and there’s also this part
called the discussion in which you talk
about how you
and how all of that applies to the real
world which in the end I think is what
dr. Orloff is trying to do with our
teaching style is showing students how
through project-based learning you can
what you do in class does have
applications for the real world and that
really does motivate us I know it it
motivated me it motivated a lot of my
classmates knowing that whatever we’re
doing isn’t just within the classroom
and that we can see it outside and in
the real world okay so something we
avoided showing it was the statistics on
this and really the model whatever the
kids choose I can take any unit if I
have the unit’s developed ahead of time
so you develop all your your your work
has to be done before you start teaching
the class so in order to engage the
students you have to be finished on day
one then you make your syllabus from
there whatever the kids choose I work
backwards from what I hear the experts
say they need I work backwards and then
I only expose them to a certain path
through the statistics so each class
goes at a little different rate and a
little different different statistics
that they’re exposed to you have to be
willing to adjust on the fly so when
things start to go wrong you’re able to
kind of push something in and something
else out and being able to adjust to the
the students and what they can do and I
think alex is a great example of what we
can produce at the high school level
here thank you thank you [Applause]
to be here today and we are really
looking forward to sharing with you
exactly how I go about this
so as Alex said I wanted to develop a
project based on something I had done at
the university level so a little bit um
about our inspiration when I was at the
University of Puget Sound
I had a great administration in that
administration they would take any idea
that you had and try to make it work so
what I did is I asked them to keep my
class size at ten this is a money-losing
project for the university and they
agreed and I got one of my corporate
partners in my lab Crocs in this case to
send a vice-president a developer a
designer a head of marketing for a whole
week and they spent a week with my kids
and my kids who are allowed in that week
to design a product the product was in
taken by the designer to China and it
was developed they brought it back by
hand so he wouldn’t have to do the
shipping and then we tested it but with
ten students this is a pretty easy thing
to do and when you develop and you come
here and suddenly I have 78 students how
do you keep all of those students
engaged in something so this was kind of
where I was going with how do i how do I
take something an award-winning class
and how do I make that class something
that was going to inspire students who
are much younger so last year I decided
to put out a call to my old graduates
and I’m an old woman so I have lots of
kids and they’re not kids anymore
they’re in their 40s and I have lots of
people out there doing things and so
what I decided I would do is I would let
the students in each class interview
three people and they could interview
these people and decide on a project and
what that person
got let’s click on chases and so on in
chases case for instance chases a
company called sway chase graduated in
2006 he went to Austria with me to
present he said so engaging
he’s an engaging young man positive
funny smart the kids interviewed him
didn’t want to interview anybody else
said they were done and so they grabbed
sway and was sway it’s the only
concussion protocol in the United States
that’s approved by the FDA
so it’s essentially being run in all
high schools and all professional sports
and he wanted to know if you had an it
on an iPhone and you were doing reaction
time or balance was that the same as
doing it with a mini iPad or an iPad so
he said can you tell me the answer to
this and he’s asking the kids to run all
these studies but in the end what he
gets is my knowledge for free so he’s a
willing character and the classes will
in character so about four times during
the year the kids would store up
questions and chase would Skype in with
us and engage them and we would get
answers but they all got the app down on
their phone and they ran a home and it
was anybody here was anybody tested last
year kids parents grandparents we hit
y’all okay so we got this really great
project and then the second group chose
Chris and Chris is on four businesses
now bought and sold them and current at
the current time he was doing something
called laser light low-level therapy and
it is to reduce pain and injury in
professional athletes most adult
professional athletes and the
manufacturer is supposed to do it for
four days but he said you know is there
a difference if I do five six days and
am I gonna get a reduction in pain still
so should I keep doing it so there’s a
certain set of skills that we needed to
do and learn in the classroom in order
to test it so with that the kids needed
to learn something about how cells work
and how cells reproduce and how injury
works and how pain works so they did a
lot of reading in the original research
I was annoyed at this at first but with
you know careful stepping through it the
students caught right on
and then the third project is a project
I thought was going to go really well
and it didn’t wasn’t a failure but it
wasn’t as engaging as the other two
projects and I had Mike bond he was my
first thesis student and his wife Laura
they work for the United States Olympic
Committee in ski and snowboard and they
have a problem where when you test an
Olympic athlete they’re always going to
be in the 99th percentile physically so
no matter what you do everybody tests it
the same but when you’re standing in a
room full of Olympic athletes where do
you rank now so we needed to develop new
standards for just Olympic athletes and
so I thought the kids would really catch
on to this and Mike gave us virtual
tours of the Olympic Center did any he’s
a great guy and his wife is even more
engaging and we just couldn’t get it to
take and we couldn’t get it to take
because the data was too hard for the
kids to understand exactly what they
were collecting so I learned a lesson
okay so everything has a failure and
everything has a success so from this I
wanted to do a project this year and the
first group I offered the project to was
a group um was my sixth period I think
and I end or my seventh period and I
said you know I gave them all these
choices and whenever you give my
students choices they always choose the
baby tortoises okay so I always so all
year long I’ve been dealing so then when
they chose that then my sixth period
want it and then my third period wanted
it so pretty soon I was just doing baby
tortoises morning noon and night for a
year um this is one of my passions
I am I volunteer in the Galapagos as I
retired from the University I said I
would give them six months over three
years I’ll complete that this summer
probably continue to go I go and I just
work at the center in the morning in the
afternoon I manage the data set so I
manage and make release protocol for who
gets released when we take them how much
it’s going to cost I kind of do the
budgeting in the
and how do we how do we get a list an
accurate list to see who’s being
released so I stopped better than
hearing from me so I had three different
groups doing it so I did three different
breeds there’s four different groups I
have 12 projects going on at any given
time so when Tommy comes to me and says
you know my project and they start
talking my eyes glaze over okay because
I’m like I don’t know what tortoise
you’re talking about nor what year so
you had to preface every time you
started to talk to me exactly what you
were talking about so I thought it was
really interesting and it’s a really
great project and with some great
results so I thought better than hearing
it from my perspective it might be great
to hear from one of my students so Alex
just gonna tell you a little bit about
his project and how it went and what he
learned from it okay thank you so I was
on a twelfth grader I’m a senior and I’m
a student of high Orloff for statistics
and well first the first semester for me
was coming into class with his teacher
who kept wearing tortoise earrings and
tortoise necklaces and kept talking
about the Galapagos and tortoises I
didn’t really understand what that was
going to build to but as I started to
learn all these statistical terms
correlation statistical variance
analysis of variance etc I started to
realize how these had some real-life
applications but far from this being
your regular math class where you just
take two classes than equals two classes
than a test the whole semester we were
building towards this final project in
which we were learning how the math we
were doing in class could apply to the
real world so what I did being the case
study for dr. Olaf’s approach to
learning was apply what we learned in
class to the Galapagos tortoise and this
was a great experience because it showed
how what I’m learning in class what I’m
learning about numbers can be applied to
the real world and that we
work with Cinco so tortoises which are
species of Galapagos tortoise and we
have to get a regression formula and
work with correlations to see how
they’re growing and although this might
sound boring and maybe just number-based
what was really interesting for me is
that it showed how with these formulas
you could help centers the conservation
centers know when they have to release a
tortoises and for them to be safe
outside of the conservation centers and
this is important because it saves a lot
of money and really this was a great
experience because you kind of in the
classroom you feel like you’re doing
something that goes beyond your
classroom and that’s going all the way
to Ecuador and the Galapagos and it’s
also a great experience because we had
to do research and we have to learn so
from just the teacher being defended the
phonetic of tortoises in the classroom
we all kind of grew into them because
the project consisted of having to look
at the literature that existed so we
have to look at how in 1974 there were
only 400 tortoises left and how today
the research centers are going are
having over 250 released every year so
that really shows how that’s changing
and learning from dr. Olaf and how she’s
been able to help these centers is
fascinating the research project also
consisted it was mainly two parts it was
this poster that you can see here which
isn’t made by me it’s my christine
Lozano
I’m artistically challenged so I bet the
paper is mine and in the paper I have an
abstract in which I explain what my
paper is I look at the literature and
then I cover the methods of how I how I
went about doing this but more
importantly for this this was really
important because it teaches students
skills that they’re gonna have to use in
the real world and when they go off to
college so I feel that that for a lot of
my classmates this was the first time
they were doing a full-blown research
project in which they had to have
citations which weren’t from Wikipedia
they had to come up with the good
sources they had to cite their images
they had to come up with the right
format and this really was a great
experience we have to combine graphs and
numbers and there’s also this part
called the discussion in which you talk
about how you
and how all of that applies to the real
world which in the end I think is what
dr. Orloff is trying to do with our
teaching style is showing students how
through project-based learning you can
what you do in class does have
applications for the real world and that
really does motivate us I know it it
motivated me it motivated a lot of my
classmates knowing that whatever we’re
doing isn’t just within the classroom
and that we can see it outside and in
the real world okay so something we
avoided showing it was the statistics on
this and really the model whatever the
kids choose I can take any unit if I
have the unit’s developed ahead of time
so you develop all your your your work
has to be done before you start teaching
the class so in order to engage the
students you have to be finished on day
one then you make your syllabus from
there whatever the kids choose I work
backwards from what I hear the experts
say they need I work backwards and then
I only expose them to a certain path
through the statistics so each class
goes at a little different rate and a
little different different statistics
that they’re exposed to you have to be
willing to adjust on the fly so when
things start to go wrong you’re able to
kind of push something in and something
else out and being able to adjust to the
the students and what they can do and I
think alex is a great example of what we
can produce at the high school level
here thank you thank you [Applause]
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