The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Leary uses resources from Black Lives Matter at Schools, a national movement started by thousands of educators in Seattle in 2016 that has spread to other large school districts nationwide. Children also grow acclimated to favoring whiteness and privileged groups. Katie Cryan Leary, principal, Magnolia Elementary, Seattle.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

In the fall of 2016, increasingly frustrated by his inability to motivate his students despite his energetic teaching style and popularity inside the classroom, he was drawn to the idea that addressing emotional barriers might help them. In 2016, a mere 37 percent of the school’s test-takers passed. His students chop off the “Mr.”

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2016

.” These pathways include ways for students to design their own learning, connect with real-world experts, react to real-world problems, learn in flexible and adaptable learning spaces, and benefit from a priority on project-based learning and maker-infused curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

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. million in grant support for the Summit Learning Program. “How

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The schools shared other traits, such as support for underrepresented students, early college-level courses, project-based learning and partnerships in the field. This school year, 2016-2017, is the first time he hasn’t had to replace a teacher for the fall, something he describes as a triumph.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Related: Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding. In 2016, Resnick, Duffy and members of their team began working with seventh and eighth graders at Somerville’s Arthur D. Healey School to bring student-led, project-based learning to regular math, science, language arts and social studies classes.

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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.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

It’s a moment when XQ Institute’s agenda — that schools should offer more project-based learning, allow more flexibility in their schedules, and assign classwork more explicitly connected to career paths that interest students — may excite education leaders searching for solutions.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

1 million renovation financed through a 2016 bond. District leaders were also banking on a significant tax hike passed in 2016 to help. Then Sparks came on board, and Lamar partnered with Trinity University instructors who helped revitalize the curriculum, focusing on project-based learning. Charting a new path.

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