The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Today, some 70 years after reformers launched a movement to make the middle grades more responsive to the needs of early adolescents, too many middle schools continue to operate like mini high schools, on a “cells and bells” model, said Chad Ratliff, the principal of Community Lab School. Peter Gray, Boston College.

Middle School 143

Middle School Elementary School Psychology Junior High 143

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Ankita Ajith can recall learning about slavery, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks at her Katy, Texas, elementary school in the Houston area. I still see so many issues where our walk is not matching the talk,” said Leary, who is white and leads a school where, she says, 62 percent of students are white.

Teaching 145

Teaching Elementary School Social Justice American History 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Students in Bruce Hecker’s twelfth grade English class at South Side High School all study the same advanced curriculum regardless of their skill level. 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.

Teaching 141

Teaching Economics High School Private School 141

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Now the middle school, along with two of the district’s other elementary schools and its high school, have makerspaces. On the infrastructure side, Havre’s schools got switches and servers, but they also got a week of strategizing and support. Their energy is transforming classrooms.

Project-Based Learning 99

Project-Based Learning Public School Elementary School Professional Development 99

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. Enrollment fell to about 600 students for this school year. It is changing.”

Charter School 112

Charter School K-12 Middle School Elementary School 112

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

Destiny Reyes, 18, spends one school day each week at the New England Aquarium and much of her schoolwork is built around research opportunities there. When Destiny Reyes started elementary school, she felt highly motivated. Like most young children, she liked learning new things, and she excelled at school.

Middle School 112

Middle School Tradition Elementary School High School 112

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.

Middle School 95

Middle School Charter School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 95

Digital Promise

AUGUST 15, 2018

This journey demonstrates some answers we have found—multi-age elementary school spaces, high school team programs with the four core subjects taught together, libraries transformed into active Learning Commons, and technology tools that facilitate connectivity with the world, creativity and production, and interactive project-based learning.

Humanities 91

Humanities Education Project-Based Learning Library 91

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Related: Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding. The school’s most recent rating from the Arizona Department of Education is an F, due to below-average student growth and achievement. Shelby Villegas, sixth grade math teacher at Whispering Wind Academy Elementary School in Phoenix.

Junior High 133

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 133

ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic and the implementation of emergency remote learning dramatically accelerated the push toward 1:1 computing initiatives that was already underway. The pandemic-era jump for elementary school students was even larger: from under half to 84 percent.

Professional Development 115

Professional Development Project-Based Learning Library Elementary School 115

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In the most recent, pre-pandemic school data available, only 31 percent of elementary school students within the Promise Neighborhood zone were scoring at proficiency in English, and only 16 percent in math. Related: Project-based learning and standardized tests don’t mix.

Charter School 104

Charter School Economics High School Project-Based Learning 104

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Teachers guide students through the foundational knowledge they need to think critically about a topic, to structure their inquiries for learning more and to understand new information when they encounter it. The Summit program was designed for high school students and expanded to middle schools.

Charter School 85

Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 85

Rosie the History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

I found a job coordinating field trips at a museum closer to my home and taught Lego Engineering at local elementary schools on the side while I began my masters degree. 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.

Museum 52

Museum Charter School History Project-Based Learning 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Even before the pandemic forced its schools to go remote, the district was piloting ways to move education out of the classroom and into the community. The resulting three models varied, but each called for real-world, hands-on, work-based learning experiences. That’s why we exist.”.

High School 142

High School Public School Tradition Tutoring 142

ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. And even proponents of competency-based education say it can be daunting to do the work of unwinding academic systems from the mechanisms of time. Embracing Flexibility?

K-12 144

K-12 Civics High School Project-Based Learning 144

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Brian Sparks is the principal at Lamar Elementary School in San Antonio. He helps out with cafeteria duties on the first day of school. Isabel Nava teaches second and third grade ESL classes at Lamar Elementary School in San Antonio. Laura Skelding for The Texas Tribune. But I don’t know the alternative.

Charter School 46

Charter School K-12 Elementary School Economics 46