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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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Experience Has Been My Greatest Teacher. Now, It’s Impacting Our School’s Ability to Adapt.

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Last September, I was sitting at a long table in the sunlit conference room of my school, looking around at the many new faces on my school’s leadership team. We’ve seen a cycle of new initiatives and ideas created by new leadership that disrupted our school structure and culture.

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Building a bridge

Dangerously Irrelevant

A school board member said to me a while back: Scott, I hear what you’re saying about active, hands-on, project-based learning. How do we help our communities understand that authentic learning is possible? Three competing visions of educational technology. Related Posts. Which is yours? 3 big shifts.

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

ED Surge

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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Anatomy of a failure: How an XQ Super School flopped

The Hechinger Report

Related: Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding. He explored teacher studies and dabbled in designing educational technology. Healey School to bring student-led, project-based learning to regular math, science, language arts and social studies classes. Theories vary.

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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common. How do they draw that something is happening?”.