What are we learning through CmPS?

This is our first year competing in CmPS - the community problem solving portion of FPS (Future Problem Solving). In just a short time, I can see how the process is incredibly rich and provides multiple opportunities for the students to develop their capacity as researchers, leaders, and empathetic problem solvers. 

What is the social-emotional research team learning in their own words? 

They are learning how to develop surveys to collect original data and working with stakeholders to find effective stress reduction strategies to teach students and teachers. The students are also sharing resources with each other in their own Google Classroom that they themselves created as a conversation space. This is truly a motivated bunch of students trying to solve an authentic real world problem. I am growing as an educator by simply sharing the space with them.