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

APRIL 7, 2017

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. The adoption of the Common Core standards led many other schools to try the model , too. Preschools and elementary schools across the U.S

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High School Project-Based Learning Charter School Elementary School 104

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

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. Lowell chose three to focus on through this partnership.

Public School 118

Public School Project-Based Learning Pedagogy Leadership 118

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Salas, who attends Roosevelt Elementary School in San Leandro, California, is not alone in feeling the effects of heat on her schoolyard. Across the country, climbing temperatures have led schools to cancel classes and outdoor activities to protect students from the harmful effects of the heat. We can learn from a textbook.

Teaching 125

Teaching Elementary School Civics Project-Based Learning 125

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. In one back room at Skyline High School, you can learn all you need to know about St. LONGMONT, Colo. —

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Project-Based Learning Elementary School High School Charter School 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Because Summit requires new schools to spend almost an entire year preparing to adopt its model, the coronavirus is not expected to cause a surge in the number of Summit schools next fall. Related: Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding. How do they draw that something is happening?”.

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Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 133

ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2022

One survey of educators found a jump from about two-thirds of middle and high school students having access to a school-issued device prior to the pandemic, to 90 percent a year later. The pandemic-era jump for elementary school students was even larger: from under half to 84 percent.

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Professional Development Project-Based Learning Library Elementary School 115

Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2018

As community makerspaces begin to take root in Ontario’s elementary schools , students are behaving better. They’re creative spaces where students can gather to explore, tinker, discover and create, and they’re making students more enthusiastic about school. This article was originally published on The Conversation.

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Elementary School Critical Thinking Lesson Plan Cultures 85

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. SpaRRk Academy hallways are filled with art projects and classroom work from the students.

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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

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

More than 30 years ago, Rockville Centre began a gradual but determined effort to do away with gifted classes in its elementary schools as well as many of the tracked classes at the middle and high schools. But your first thought is still to blame the dog.” His peers laughed in appreciation. Those classes proved popular.

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Teaching Economics High School Private School 141

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

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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Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 85

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2020

“The Promise Neighborhoods’ goal was to replicate the work of Harlem Children’s Zone — a federal grant program to do in neighborhoods across the country what Geoffrey Canada did for Harlem,” said Megan Gallagher, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute, a social and economic policy think tank.

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Charter School Economics High School Project-Based Learning 104

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

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.

High School 82

High School Project-Based Learning Psychology Charter School 82

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.

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Museum Charter School History Project-Based Learning 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

“These are all kids in our community,” Mentone said of the choice to offer services even to families who have unenrolled children to home-school them. “If Remote and project-based learning have prompted some educators to revisit the school day. That’s why we exist.”.

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High School Public School Tradition Tutoring 142

ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

Picture a high school student who balances his studies with a variety of other responsibilities and activities. Maybe he walks his younger siblings to their elementary school each morning, demonstrating a knack for caregiving. Maybe he works at a part-time job when the school day ends, showing his diligence and drive.

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K-12 Civics High School Project-Based Learning 144