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Guest Post: Reimagine What Learning Looks Like in a Classroom

Digital Promise

Many parents at my elementary school have shared that their child uses technology better than they do. I, myself, have even struggled with some of the modern methods of basic math taught in the elementary school. In the fall, leverage this time management to create more opportunities for student-directed learning.

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She gave up on public schools that rejected her bold ideas a decade ago. Now she’s back.

The Hechinger Report

After leading a handful of conferences and workshops for public school teachers over the last couple years, Acera is in the first year of a three-year, whole-school partnership with the Joseph G. Pyne Arts Magnet School in Lowell.

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

The Hechinger Report

We don’t want to create gaps in our learning for our little ones.”. Is it more about the personalized-learning time, for instance, or the super-committed and highly skilled teachers in a particular program? “I About half the schools that started Basecamp applications last year didn’t finish. “And

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High school should be more like preschool

The Hechinger Report

What happens is that the academic pedagogy keeps getting pushed down, down, down and quashing what early childhood development is all about. But several trends once relegated mainly to progressive schools or alternative schools for at-risk students are reaching the mainstream and have even been embraced by entire states.

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How one Chicago high school turned the corner using full-time internships

The Hechinger Report

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.