Digital Promise

MAY 28, 2019

There was no set curriculum that prescribed what the projects would look like or accomplish. Catalina Stirling, a teacher at the DC Bilingual Public Charter School, became involved in the initiative during a D.C. Instead, that was directed by the students, some as young as three.

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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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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

— Mentor Schools (@mentorschools) February 3, 2017. Kettle Moraine School District – Wales, WI. Kettle Moraine School District has created charter schools like KM Perform within its traditional high school to accommodate student interests. Evergreen School District – San Jose, CA.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

A 2015 Stanford study that looked at the performance of students in online charter schools found that the majority lost learning equivalent to a standard 180-day school year. Even when she’s instructing a student from a distance, she learns about them and their home environment. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

In Chicago, a charter school made its commitment to this goal very clear, choosing the name Intrinsic Schools when it launched in 2013 to serve students in grades seven through 12.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2016

In Pat Deklotz’s district in Wales, Wisconsin, students can help design their own learning; they can enroll in one of the district’s four dynamic and innovative charter schools, for example, or engage in curriculum that delivers instruction differently or closes skills gaps.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

The plan pulled from best practices in school innovation from all over the country. But many of its key features are more common in private or charter schools than in district ones. “We We thought our big contribution could be laying out how to do this in the traditional public school environment,” Resnick said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Kwame Owusu-Kesse, the CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone, adjusts the uniform of an eighth grader at the organization’s Promise Academy I charter school in Harlem in 2018. Drexel is the lead partner in the grant, which encompasses seven public schools, including one charter school, in a two-square-mile area.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

But that’s not what is easing the transition to remote learning for schools like Rhodes. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning. Fears about data privacy and screen time, along with concerns about Silicon Valley’s conflicting interests as it pushes into public schools, have battered Summit’s reputation.

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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

Sparks, one of San Antonio Independent School District’s “network principals,” has been given more than $1 million in grants to replicate Lamar’s successes at Bowden, part of a larger effort to overhaul low-performing schools and boost falling enrollment across this inner-city district with 92 schools and about 49,000 students.

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Rosie the History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

I had a few interviews that summer – and one charter school even offered me a job without interviewing me! Then I got down to the important work of mapping out my classes for the year and trying to plan some lessons and Project Based Learning. I donated 10 inches of my hair to Children With Hairloss.)

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