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Ryan Casey

Ryan Casey teaches Spanish at his alma mater, Lexington High School, in Lexington, MA. He holds a B.A. from NYU’s Gallatin School and an M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Classroom Strategies Going beyond: The added value of Project-Based Language Learning My favorite day of a thematic unit on volunteerism with my ninth graders is the day of their oral presentations. I love watching them pitch their ideas for volunteer projects (organizing a day to celebrate our custodians; cleaning up the trash on our campus) to their classmates, who are typically so impressed with each other they have a hard time voting for their favorite idea. by Ryan Casey

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Classroom Strategies

Going beyond: The added value of Project-Based Language Learning

Ryan Casey

My favorite day of a thematic unit on volunteerism with my ninth graders is the day of their oral presentations. I love watching them pitch their ideas for volunteer projects (organizing a day to celebrate our custodians; cleaning up the trash on our campus) to their classmates, who are typically so impressed with each other they have a hard time voting for their favorite idea.

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