An IUP faculty member has received a two-year $255,000 grant to develop and assess an English-Language Arts curriculum to improve decision-making skills of high school students.
The award was given to Dr. Mike Sell from the Alliance for Decision Education. He will work with students from the Franklin-Regional School District. He is co-leader of the Digital Storytelling Project, which was founded in 2015 to support K-12, university and non-profit educators improve learning engagement and reinforce critical thinking, creativity, communication and collaboration. Teachers at Franklin Regional working in the program are designing a curriculum that will integrate standards-based study of classics of literature with decision-making concepts and video game design.
The project was co-founded with recent graduates Dr. Rachel Scheira and Dr. Zeeshan Siddique.
In a statement, Sell said that the program will be beneficial as it will improve a young person’s ability to make good decisions, which he sees as a critical mission for educators today.
