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Project based learning and NAF’s Year of Planning

During this two-day digital storytelling workshop, YOP teams create a short video they can use for outreach and recruitment as they launch their new Academies. Designed as a hands-on, project-based activity that supports established YOP communications requirements, participating teachers use this workshop to consider their message, their audience and the key points of their programs and then work together using video-editing tools to create a finished movie.

View Professional Development, a case study video documenting the work of two YOP teams in San Francisco during the YOP workshop program. >

NAF YOP Workshop 2006

This winter and spring, teams at five sites nationwide, including NAF staff in New York, created their own short films. Each workshop was professionally documented in a case study focusing on important aspects of the NAF Academy model and high school reform as seen in the context of this PBL workshop. View the work at each location below.


  • Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL

  • Curriculum & Instruction

  • North Miami Beach Sr. High School, Education Academy

  • Booker T. Washington Sr. High School

  • View workshop >

  • Mansfield ISD, Mansfield, TX

  • Teams

  • Ben Barber Career Tech Academy, AOIT, AOHT

  • View workshop >

  • Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD

  • Advisory Board

  • Thomas Wootton High School, AOIT

  • Seneca Valley High School, AOIT

  • View workshop >

  • New Academy Orientation, Newark, NJ

  • Professional Learning Community

  • NAF Staff and Partners

  • View workshop >

  • SFUSD, San Francisco CA

  • Professional Development

  • Balboa High School, AOIT

  • George Washington High School, AOHT

  • View workshop >

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