Meet the Windward Challenge Based Learning Team

Geraldine    loveless

Geraldine encourages students to explore science concepts and utilize tech tools to apply these understandings to real life challenges.  Her students work with apps, software, and lab experiments to explore problems and develop understandings, then use tinkerCAD, 3D printing, and other build materials to create solutions.  Geraldine has presented her innovative work with students at CAIS, T4SJ, NAIS, and ISTE.  She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, and earned a Master of Arts in Education with a concentration in Secondary Science at Loyola Marymount University. Geraldine presently teaches 7th and 8th grade science at Windward School.

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kevin    kloeker

Kevin has been teaching science for nine years, and has always had an inclination to teach via a project-based curriculum.  Kevin's philosophy on science education stems form a belief that students should be learning how to test for and solve problems rather than studying facts and content.  Because last year was his first at Windward, Kevin was introduced to Challenge Based Learning in an official context and was able to move CBL at Windward to the next level thanks to help of parents, colleagues, and the community in which the students work.  This year, Kevin is excited to work with the African Leadership Academy to grow Windward's CBL Program and Challenge Based Learning as a whole as a global initiative.