Educating for the Future: The Power of Interdisciplinary Spaces

In her talk, Theresa explores the importance and advantages of an interdisciplinary learning spaces over the single-subject classroom environment. Based on her experience doing genetics research, Theresa saw how real work on big problems is not and cannot be done based on the single subject learning model used in high schools today. Because meaningful and important work is nearly always interdisciplinary in nature, she calls on schools to develop interdisciplinary learning spaces.