The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

PHILADELPHIA — In a city that’s struggled to meet the educational needs of many of its children, especially its most vulnerable ones, a select group of district high schools is shunning the traditional classroom model in which teachers dispense knowledge from the front of the room and measure progress with tests. I’m into the process.”.

Project-Based Learning 106

Project-Based Learning Leadership High School Tradition 106

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

In her decades at the traditional high school, she saw her students becoming increasingly aimless and disengaged. But since 2014, she says, when the district introduced this new outdoor project-based approach, students’ ambition and sense of identity have dramatically improved. Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report.

Project-Based Learning 100

Project-Based Learning High School Lesson Plan Tradition 100

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Often, students struggling in these subjects find ways around taking them in traditional high schools, and, lacking the mandatory prerequisites, are ineligible to take advanced math and science classes in college. Information was based on surveys of 12th graders in 2012 in North Carolina and 2013 in Texas. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo.

High School 111

High School Tradition Tutoring Project-Based Learning 111

Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2016

They are building individual and collective knowledge and skills of how to expand our implementation of personalized learning throughout the district. This work brings us closer and closer to recognizing student achievement through demonstrated competencies rather than more traditional methods of assessment.”

Charter School 39

Charter School Project-Based Learning Critical Thinking Public School 39

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Related: The messy reality of personalized learning. A network of charter schools in California and Washington developed the Summit Learning Program for their students almost a decade ago; the model got a boost in 2014 from Facebook engineers after Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, visited a Summit middle school.

Junior High 131

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 131

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Indeed, despite the buzz around personalized learning, there’s no simple recipe for success, and the common ingredients — such as adaptive-learning technology and student control over learning — can backfire if poorly implemented. We don’t want to create gaps in our learning for our little ones.”.

Charter School 83

Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 83

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

With this “Real-World Learning” program, ChiTech joins a growing number of schools devoting big chunks of the year to internships, despite the perennial classroom time crunch. The internships are also part of a larger turnaround effort at ChiTech, centered on project-based learning.

High School 79

High School Project-Based Learning Psychology Charter School 79