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Trying to improve remote learning? A refugee camp offers some surprising lessons

The Hechinger Report

Hello Future uses a curriculum enriched with project-based learning, in which students do longer, in-depth collaborative projects. For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling.

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The Impact of Creativity on College and Career Readiness

ED Surge

Tacy Trowbridge Lead for Global Education Thought Leadership & Advocacy Adobe What importance does creativity play when it comes to college and career pathways? Research indicates that Generation Z students are technologically savvy and appreciate interdisciplinary, project-based learning experiences.

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Forget civics class: Students want to make a difference in real life

The Hechinger Report

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

In dozens of interviews, Summit leadership, education researchers, and the people who teach and learn in schools that use Summit agreed that the platform offers a systematic way to achieve the otherwise complicated, messy objective of personalizing learning. “How How do they draw that something is happening?”.