Charter School Project-Based Learning Tradition 
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 7, 2017
For anyone who’s spent time in an early childhood classroom, the idea that school should be as much about making friends and having fun as learning the alphabet will sound familiar. Bobbi Macdonald, founder of City Neighbors charter schools. who attempt to replicate its project-based model.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
I visited many elementary and middle schools where students, with bulging headphones wrapped over their heads, stared at separate computers, each learning something different at the same moment. Others were jumping ahead to concepts that were grade levels ahead of what they would traditionally be learning.
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The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Shareece DeLeon, a teacher at Impact Public School’s Salish Sea Elementary, accepts plastic food items from one of her students during a 90-minute block of play time. Impact Salish Sea Elementary, in south Seattle, is one of three charter schools run by Impact Public Schools. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 26, 2019
But what else was she learning in this maker space? With scarcely a month left in the school year, why was it worth spending time making videos rather than covering the next academic standard? It’s a daunting task, as evidenced by this past year’s pilot, which was a tale of two schools.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 7, 2019
The two had spent nearly seven years designing a new kind of high school meant to address the needs of students who didn’t thrive in a traditional setting. They’d developed a projects-driven curriculum that would give students nearly unprecedented control over what they would learn, in a small, supportive environment.
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.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 23, 2023
They also organized an in-person component: Once a week, students would gather in reserved classrooms in a local elementary school, for activities such as science experiments, project-based learning and reading groups. Related: Remote learning has been a disaster for many students.
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