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Our mission is to help students grow to become supercollaborators. That means having the knowledge and skills to solve hard problems in collaborative settings.In the future, they will need to address novel challenges that do not have pre-existing solutions. We are preparing students for that future.The first tenet of the Synthesis Curriculum is:Exp... See more

As a teacher, I had a similar assignment for high school students at the beginning of the year called “You: The Syllabus”. Students curated texts—books, music, movies, art, etc. that they would put on a syllabus if we were all taking the 101 course of who they were. Students then did three minute presentations overviewing their syllabus.

One of the best ways I’ve found to organize one’s thoughts about a huge swath of intellectual and creative space, is to write a syllabus