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Editor's Note: Diverse research points out our memories retain knowledge significantly better through lived experience rather than with words. The stories below highlight a steady shift towards active modes of learning -- from a medical school with no lectures to a school inside a museum, to one city's creative experiment of integrating pottery lessons into all school subjects! --Daniela

Med School Without Lectures

If you've ever zoned out in a lecture hall, you'll be intrigued to know that when UVM's medical school doors open in 2019, it will do so with no lectures in the curriculum -- "putting it at the leading edge of a trend that could change the way the next generation of physicians learn their profession."

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When Your School is a Museum

"We don't have a library -- the public library is a mile away. We don't have a gym -- the ice-skating circle is down the street, and the YMCA is a couple blocks away." A declining district expands its concept of a school campus -- into a museum, a school and the city itself.

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Pottery Makes History, Literally

Stoke-on-Trent, longtime home of England's pottery industry, is bringing clay back to the classroom -- not only as a creative attempt to keep the city's pottery legacy alive, but also as a tool for engaged, active learning across all disciplines.

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Be The Change Idea

Practice the classic literary technique of "show, don't tell," and find creative ways to communicate through your actions today.