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What is Active Learning? Transforming Education with Student Engagement

TCI

By 2014, a large-scale study found that students in active learning environments scored 6 percent higher on exams and were 1.5 times less likely to fail than those in traditional lecture-based classes. times less likely to fail than those in traditional lecture-based classes.

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OPINION: Proud of your students for walking out? Here’s what to do when they walk back in

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: Social studies is typically considered the most suitable subject area for developing citizenship skills and knowledge. Yet, social studies has been on the chopping block at schools across the country for nearly two decades now, especially in schools serving largely poor and minority students.

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Alaska schools pay a price for the nation’s slowest internet, but change is coming

The Hechinger Report

NOME, Alaska — Before they got down to business for the day, students in Devin Tatro’s social studies class were offered a quiet moment of self-reflection: On this golden fall afternoon at Nome-Beltz Junior/Senior High School, were they feeling chipper, distressed or somewhere in between?

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Celebrating ConnectED’s Achievements Toward Transforming Education

Digital Promise

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. Middle school students use pre-crafted story maps to learn standard classroom content in science and social studies. Kalama Intermediate School.

Education 105
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What happens when teachers run the school

The Hechinger Report

Today, Junge’s group, which coined the term “teacher-powered” in 2014, identifies roughly 300 schools nationwide that follow the model. Carrie Bakken, a social studies teacher and program coordinator who has been with the school since 2001, said the model appeals to younger workers and has helped the school avoid hiring challenges. “We

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When math lessons at a goat farm beat sitting behind a desk

The Hechinger Report

But Goldstein, who helped create a hands-on manufacturing course at Randolph Union in 2014, says “retention is much easier than recruitment.” That law, known as Act 77, “opened up learning beyond the four walls of the traditional classroom,” says John Fischer, who was a deputy secretary of the Vermont Agency of Education at the time. “It

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Giving students a say

The Hechinger Report

Michael is a senior at Vertus High School , an all-boys charter school in the Rochester City School District whose hallmark is a program that blends online classes with more traditional classroom teaching. For his part, though, Michael appreciates the opportunity to work faster than traditional classrooms allow.