Let's Cultivate Greatness

JANUARY 3, 2025

We call it Civics, not Government, class because its purpose is to instill a sense of citizen duty and participation, not just a memorization of concepts and amendments. Email or Call Government Officials Find at least one small way to connect with an elected official during class. Its such a great question for this project.

Civics 52

Civics Government Project-Based Learning Leadership 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Andrew Brennen, National Geographic education fellow.

Civics 143

Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Leave this field empty if you're human: The kind of leadership and responsibility that shone through EB’s speech is actively encouraged at this unusual program in rural Maine. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update.

Project-Based Learning 102

Project-Based Learning High School Lesson Plan Tradition 102

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Put like that, they feel benign, almost harmless.

Pedagogy 250

Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Library Research 250

Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 20, 2015

each regional Area Education Agency had the capacity to help its districts create project-based learning ‘incubators?’ some may already). kind of like Iowa BIG in Cedar Rapids). there was statewide pressure from school districts on educator preparation programs to be more relevant? Help us make it happen?”

Education 102

Education Project-Based Learning Private School Leadership 102

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Related: Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding. Curtatone encouraged Resnick and Duffy to take advantage of Massachusetts’ Innovation Schools provision, which offers public schools much of the flexibility charters enjoy without the independent governance that makes charter opponents bristle.

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Charter School Project-Based Learning High School Public School 111

ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

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. “You

High School 117

High School Leadership Public School Charter School 117