Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

Heather Messer , a teacher and advisor at a Wisconsin school where competency-based learning is a school-wide practice. Beth Blankenship , an English teacher who has figured out how to use competency-based learning at her Virginia high school, a school that still uses traditional grading.

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Artifacts Tradition Psychology Critical Thinking 173

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, is all done with shushing. Photo: Kelsey Aske.

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Library K-12 Digital Resources Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

But the high school freshman at the Old Rochester Regional High School in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, near Cape Cod, has recently leaned in to her little-explored Irish heritage. In a school that is more than 90 percent white, her genealogy course offers a rare opportunity to talk about diversity.

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History Ancestry Heritage Project-Based Learning 140

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Reading, writing assignments, presentations and discussions covered history, cultural difference, environmental manipulation and what was technically possible. And the confluence of language, history and economics on the Seaway provided an ideal – not to mention local – lens through which to view the liberal arts. Just as the St.

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