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Alternative Learning: Supporting Our At-Promise Students

A Principal's Reflections

These main components have been slightly adapted based on the ALPSS program. Innovative Environment and Pedagogy Provision of an effective and supportive learning environment that enables participating at-promise learners to improve their academic performance to attain applicable performance standards and graduate from high school.

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Critical Thinking in the 21st Century and Beyond

A Principal's Reflections

Every student in the school could not wait to take his class. Since our school was small, there was a chance you could even have him multiple times before moving up to the high school. What separated Mr. South from his peers was his passion for helping students learn and love the sciences.

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High school should be more like preschool

The Hechinger Report

A group of sophomore boys weaving baskets in an art class wish their school assigned more tests instead of oral presentations. If the activity seems a little too silly for high school, that’s by design. The leaders of City Neighbors High School have purposely included some time each day for kids to just be kids.

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Standardized Tests Aren’t Going Anywhere. So What Do We Do?

Cult of Pedagogy

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. Yet, of 112 those tests, only 16 or 17 were large-scale, federally-mandated but state-specific standardized tests (Math and ELA, once a year in grades 3-8 and once in high school, plus possibly a science assessment.)

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

The Hechinger Report

Every senior spends a month working outside of school at full-time internships throughout Chicago. Blanton, a high school senior, was interning for the firm’s information technology group. The internships are also part of a larger turnaround effort at ChiTech, centered on project-based learning.

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What Is the Secret Sauce for Deeper Learning?

Cult of Pedagogy

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. Ask most adults if they remember anything they learned in high school, and what you’re likely to hear is a lot of different versions of no. first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy.

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Technology Sparks Growth Mindset and Innovation in the Classroom

Digital Promise

“We’d look at another school that has technology, and we’re like, ‘Wow … I wish we had those possibilities.’”. Those possibilities became reality for Nakia and her Chilhowee classmates, along with students at nearby Copper Basin High School, in 2017, when both Polk County schools joined Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS).