Our education system, especially in urban areas, is broken. To gain insight into challenges and solutions for transforming it, Juliette LaMontagne, TED Fellow and professor at Columbia University, led a discussion at our most recent Interesting Café. Interesting Café is Clickable's monthly culture event to expand our thinking and connect with our community.

An innovator in project-based and technology-enhanced learning, Juliette shared highlights of her lifelong commitment to serving and transforming education. Inspired by a violent sexual attack she witnessed and halted, Juliette founded VOW Arts at the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan, a program dedicated to engaging adolescent girls in activism through the arts. She then researched project-based learning at Teachers College, Columbia University, and took a faculty position there in the Secondary English Education Program. She consults for the Student Press Initiative, an urban literacy program and is a leadership coach with The Asia Society's International Studies School Network.

Below is a short video interview with Juliette, following her group discussion. Let us know what you think.

Lastly, if you'd like to join our future monthly Interesting Café events, please leave a comment or email me at mkalehoff  at  clickable  dot  com. We host discussions with highly interesting people - both discussion leaders and guests. Here are recent video summaries.

From a fellow TEDster, bravo, Julie.  I found this video to be very inciteful and thought-provoking.  It was a resource I will refer to as I explore how project-based learning and technology can be optimized in the classroom of today and tomorrow.

Al Meyers

www.reinventedsolutions.com