The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

Even before the pandemic shunted them into online learning, many high school students failed to see a connection between their work in the classroom and their real-world futures. Young people whose education included a work-based learning experience — and with it a sampling of career opportunities they might never have imagined.

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High School Economics Project-Based Learning Tradition 145

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 22, 2013

This was where I finally learned about VR Quest™ developed by Warren Black. Warren developed this program for middle and high school students, but Judy convinced him that elementary school students could do it. Now I have to work on brining this amazing program to the students of New Milford High School.

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Critical Thinking Project-Based Learning Educational Technology Elementary School 347

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

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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High School Project-Based Learning Charter School Elementary School 105

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

More than 200 of you responded to our survey and listed project-based learning (PBL) as a top interest. Pedagogical approaches related to PBL — such as challenge-based learning, problem-based learning, and inquiry-based learning — share common features.

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Project-Based Learning K-12 Human Rights Middle School 54

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When Lou Allen started the Science and Technology Magnet High School of Southeastern Connecticut in 2005, he didn’t woo the state’s top students. Instead, in accordance with state law, admission was based on a lottery. White and Asian students dominate advanced science and math classes in high school.

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High School Tradition Tutoring Project-Based Learning 110

A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 15, 2011

Right before the holiday break I was contacted by Dwight Carter , the Principal of Gahanna Lincoln High School in Ohio. He wanted to pick my brain about technology integration strategies that I have used at New Milford High School in New Jersey.

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Project-Based Learning Tradition Leadership High School 249

A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Case studies promote the following skills that are at the heart of authentic learning: problem-solving, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration. Incorporate characteristics of both problem and project-based learning. They expose students to real-life issues.

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Project-Based Learning Interactive Learning Critical Thinking Teaching 263

ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a Friday morning in March, students and teachers gathered at a hip hotel here to reimagine what their high schools could be. The delegation from Calvin Coolidge High School was thinking big — as in, global. Yet measuring whether a redesigned high school is working as intended, and why, is difficult to do.

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High School Leadership Public School Charter School 114

A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

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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Critical Thinking Pedagogy Learning Science Tradition 398

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

My classmates at th e public high school I attend in New York City are not unusual: In a recent survey, 89 percent of students who responded said they had used ChatGPT for homework. While project-based learning may help lift standardized test scores, its real power lies in improving problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.

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Project-Based Learning Psychology Critical Thinking High School 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

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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High School Project-Based Learning Psychology Charter School 72

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 7, 2017

As I began to pilot NEW School this year, my goals were to: provide students with individualized learning paths. make time for conversations about where students are at in their learning. engage students in meaningful project-based learning. provide real-time feedback on student work.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2023

Project-based learning is trendy. Throughout the United Kingdom, including England where this study took place, 11th year students take General Certificate of Secondary Education [GCSE] exams, which are akin to high school exit exams. What is the best way to teach? Others favor discussions or group work.

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Teaching Project-Based Learning Tutoring Economics 144

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

The day I first visited The James Baldwin School , I met Nia, a confident young woman whose path to a high school diploma was not what we might call “traditional.” After high school, Smith enrolled at the University of Washington. Do transfer high schools like James Baldwin help students succeed?

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High School Project-Based Learning Leadership Tradition 57

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 18, 2016

I’ve been teaching 9th and 10th grade English at Windsor High School for the last 13 years. In that time, my approach to teaching has radically changed as I’ve embraced technology and shifted to a blended learning model. I’ve tried to reimagine what learning looks like in an English class.

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Teaching Project-Based Learning Tradition High School 165

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Maritime High School in Des Moines, Washington—a collaborative project between the Port of Seattle , the Northwest Maritime Center , Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition , and Highline Public Schools —welcomed its inaugural freshman class this month. That feels like a problem—a huge injustice.”.

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Project-Based Learning High School Public School Humanities 133

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. Related: Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding. She always identified as Italian-American.

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History Ancestry Heritage Project-Based Learning 139

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

As a result, there’s a significant gap between students’ soft skill attainment as they leave high school and what’s needed to be successful in the workforce and as happy contributors to society. How does project-based learning support the development of soft skills?

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Project-Based Learning Middle School High School Critical Thinking 104

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2021

Many of those students are middle school age, a time when they can easily just disappear and start to fail. Catching and addressing that in sixth or seventh grade is essential; any later and they may not be ready for high school — and many won’t graduate. After-school programs can keep them on track.

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Middle School Project-Based Learning High School History 143

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

Teaching students the basics of digital literacy is just the first step to successful remote learning, the Hello Future educators said. Hello Future uses a curriculum enriched with project-based learning, in which students do longer, in-depth collaborative projects. Curriculum matters, too.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2020

I don’t know anyone who felt equipped to jump to remote learning effectively overnight. As I’m preparing for another round of distance learning, I’m now able to reflect on what can be done differently. Devin Evans is a 12th-grade literature and history teacher at Butler College Prep Charter High School on Chicago’s far South Side.

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Professional Development Project-Based Learning Social Science High School 137

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

From kindergarten through 12th grade, students learn lessons and tackle projects through the Agricultural and Environmental Education program. She selected agriculture as her career pathway for high school and she plans to major in animal science in college next year, so all of the farm-related projects tie into career exploration.

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Project-Based Learning High School Teaching Research 99

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

“Who is the school board really representing? Are students of color getting represented appropriately and are decisions being made to support them and their learning?” Vida Mendoza, high school freshman, Oakland, California. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 14, 2016

What I love about the school is that you can’t tell the 4.0 student from the student who was struggling academically back at his ‘mothership’ high school because at Iowa BIG they’re both doing amazing work. Real projects. Project-based learning in Northwest Iowa. Joziah Grimm shares his story below.

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Project-Based Learning High School 98

Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2017

“We have a high school staff of 160, and there was no real place for them to work in a collaborative way as an entire staff,” said Mike Lynch, Director of Straight A Initiatives. are designing project-based learning units collaboratively. Collaborating for greater impact.

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Public School K-12 Project-Based Learning Library 122

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. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History.

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Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Library Research 232

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2024

There’s no easy answer – math experts, STEM professors, high school educators, parents, advocates and even students have vastly different opinions on what math knowledge and courses should be required for students to succeed in college and careers.

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K-12 Project-Based Learning High School Tradition 113

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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Those on a vocational track begin apprenticeships after completing 10th grade, while students hoping to go to university attend academic high school for three additional years. Tim Becker, 20, is doing an IT apprenticeship after completing the university entry exam at his academically oriented high school in Cologne.

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Middle School High School Project-Based Learning Teaching 133

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

Kelly Dole, the school’s science teacher, says that when she first started teaching at Telstar High School, in 1998, students were often unprepared for life after high school. In her decades at the traditional high school, she saw her students becoming increasingly aimless and disengaged.

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Project-Based Learning Lesson Plan High School Tradition 101

ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

The goal is to improve science literacy among high school students by making lessons meaningful and relevant to their lives through a teaching method called project-based learning. Now the STEM curriculum is poised to enter high school classrooms in the rural South.

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Education K-12 Cultures Project-Based Learning 129

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 2, 2023

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. Ask most high school kids if they remember what they learned last year , and you’ll probably get the same answer.

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Project-Based Learning Pedagogy Humanities Leadership 130

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Students in Bruce Hecker’s twelfth grade English class at South Side High School all study the same advanced curriculum regardless of their skill level. and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness despite the early hour.

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Teaching Economics High School Private School 141

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Even before the pandemic forced its schools to go remote, the district was piloting ways to move education out of the classroom and into the community. The resulting three models varied, but each called for real-world, hands-on, work-based learning experiences. That’s why we exist.”.

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High School Tradition Public School Tutoring 142

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2018

That’s one of the reasons a different approach to teaching and learning caught my attention several years ago. My visit to New Tech High School in Napa County, California, during the 2008-09 academic year was the start of an important journey for me that eventually would have an impact on students in my home state and beyond.

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Project-Based Learning Professional Development High School History 92

Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 20, 2015

What if… every Urban Education Network of Iowa district had an ‘alternative’ high school for low-achieving students that focused on creative inquiry, collaborative problem-solving, and community contribution instead of worksheet packets and self-paced online courses? some may already). kind of like Iowa BIG in Cedar Rapids).

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Education Project-Based Learning Private School Leadership 102

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2019

And it’s almost always designed by adults, few of whom consult with kids before they start mass-producing their products and selling them to schools. Brandon, now 20, dropped out of his high-performing New Jersey high school as a junior. The disconnect is not lost on Brandon Goon.

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Junior High Project-Based Learning Educational Technology Tradition 111