I have been focused recently on best practices in education and have been reflecting on some of the teachers and schools that have excelled.  I remember about a decade ago when Edutopia described a teacher from Everett, Washington who was working with her students on architectural projects.  This was shortly after NCLB came out, and rather than focusing on teaching to the test, this teacher continued to use a project-based approach and teach using methods of her choice. Her s