The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Leave this field empty if you're human: Ten years ago, Courtney Dickinson wanted to create an innovative public school. She had a teaching degree and while she never got a job as a teacher, she had a lot of ideas about how schools should operate. Higher Education.

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Public School Project-Based Learning Pedagogy Leadership 115

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Related: Four new studies bolster the case for project-based learning. Schools should also take advantage of the “sensitive period” for social and emotional learning, setting aside time to teach students the skills and mindsets that will help them succeed in high school and beyond, researchers say.

Middle School 143

Middle School Elementary School Psychology Junior High 143

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. But this is hard.

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Project-Based Learning Public School Elementary School Professional Development 97

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In the past, student work has ranged from the cutting edge to the routine, from creating a measuring tool that uses lasers to estimate the length of great white sharks to teaching officials in Longmont, the district’s main city, how to better use smartphones in their jobs. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. It’s more engaging.”.

Project-Based Learning 110

Project-Based Learning Elementary School High School Charter School 110

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

He finds it easy to teach himself with online content as his guide. He breezily navigates the internet and educational platforms his school uses. The computers themselves bring concerns about the negative effects of screens on children’s learning and brain development. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

Junior High 131

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 131

ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2022

The pandemic-era jump for elementary school students was even larger: from under half to 84 percent. Nearly 60 percent of survey respondents stated that the number of school-issued devices had increased “a lot” since the pandemic began. But the devices also offer new opportunities for how schools can support learning.

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Professional Development Project-Based Learning Library Elementary School 113

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

When I was 8 years old, my father began teaching me a programming language called BASIC, using an Epson QX10 computer. Thousands of students in Plymouth public elementary schools participate in Hour of Code, a lynchpin in our technology curriculum for the past three years. Boy using a tablet. PLYMOUTH, Mass.

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Project-Based Learning Elementary School Educational Technology History 94

Digital Promise

AUGUST 15, 2018

My colleague Chad sees those opportunities through an edu-entrepreneurial lens, always looking at what learning need isn’t being met and how to shape a response to the human needs inside our schools; in doing so, it shifts power from teacher to learners.

Humanities 91

Humanities Education Project-Based Learning Library 91

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. Teaching Perseverence. Read the original article.

Elementary School 85

Elementary School Critical Thinking Lesson Plan Cultures 85

Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

Time constraints to demonstrate a competency are removed in this system of teaching and learning, and student transcripts have been adapted to reflect student progress in this system. Students at KM Perform leave high school with an understanding and ownership of how they learn best.

Middle School 94

Middle School Charter School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 94

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

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

– Establishing our rules of play and group norms – Quick reactions to my TEDxDesMoines talk about extracurricular learning v. traditional classroom ‘projects’ (how is PBL different from what we normally do in our classes?) – Interrogating our instruction: Are these elementary and middle school projects any good?

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Leadership Professional Development Geography Project-Based Learning 107

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. The district assigned 10 full-time teachers to provide live, online classes via Zoom.

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Charter School K-12 Middle School Elementary School 109

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.

Charter School 83

Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 83

Rosie the History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Well, this is my version of a birth story – the birth of my teaching career. No, I’m not still at that school, but those students, colleagues, and classroom walls will always hold a very special place in my heart. Suddenly, it was August and I figured I would not find a teaching job that year. That was a busy time!

Museum 52

Museum Charter School History Project-Based Learning 52

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. In this series, The Hechinger Report examines racial inequity in gifted classes and what schools are doing to fix it.

Teaching 141

Teaching Economics High School Private School 141

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

High School 104

High School Project-Based Learning Charter School Elementary School 104

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

“None of us would have ever wanted to go through this,” said Deborah Gist, the superintendent of schools in Tulsa, Oklahoma. “We We have a chance now to make it something that will change teaching and learning forever for the better.”. Remote and project-based learning have prompted some educators to revisit the school day.

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. Now, the institution that developed the time-based standard more than a century ago that is used throughout education is calling for the creation of a different way to quantify academic progress.

K-12 144

K-12 Civics High School Project-Based Learning 144

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

The internships are also part of a larger turnaround effort at ChiTech, centered on project-based learning. The school, where more than 90 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and 14 percent are counted as homeless, was founded in 2009 to teach skills valued by the booming technology sector.

High School 79

High School Project-Based Learning Psychology Charter School 79

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 45

Charter School K-12 Elementary School Economics 45