IUP, Franklin Regional to assess video game English curriculum to improve students’ decision-making skills
“When Hamlet says ‘to be or not to be,’ that’s a choice,” said Mike Sell, an English professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. “Having students think about challenges they face in life and to be able to take a moment and make the most thoughtful, possible choice, that’s a set of skills that’s genuinely priceless.”
What if students could build decision-making skills and dispositions right in their existing classes?
Thanks to Mike Sell, English professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and recipient of the Alliance for Decision Education Research Grant, that’s exactly what’s happening in the Franklin Regional School District in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.
Through his Digital Storytelling Project, students:
- Explore literature through interactive storytelling
- Design choose-your-own-adventure video games
- Practice structuring decisions and identifying thinking traps
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Alliance for Decision Education Receives Grant to Advance Decision Education in K-12 Classrooms
April 15, 2026The Alliance for Decision Education has received a grant from the John Templeton Foundation to embed decision-making into core instruction and build resources to scale Decision Education nationwide.
