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Addressing 5 Common Project-Based Learning Challenges

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Address Common Project-Based Learning Challenges Through Culture-Building contributed by Sara Segar , Experit Learning Depot I would never claim to be the world’s best project-based educator. I’ve learned that every PBL struggle is preventable with a solid PBL culture.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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Getting rid of gifted programs: Trying to teach students at all levels together in one class

The Hechinger Report

and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness despite the early hour. There was a real culture that ‘We hate school and we hate language,’” Burris said. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report. It was 7:58 a.m.,

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Is the Post-Pandemic Era Ripe for Rethinking High School?

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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. Photo courtesy of Kira Rowe.