Catlin Tucker

MARCH 18, 2016

” It asks teachers a series of questions: Are we planning to continue teaching next year? If we could describe our perfect teaching assignment, what would it be? This year as I stared at the form and asked myself, what is your perfect teaching assignment? We would co-teach three block classes every other day.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 3, 2011

The use of case studies is a powerful pedagogical approach to incorporate student-centered learning activities into lessons. As a science teacher I routinely utilized case studies as they provided a relevant context to what I was teaching. Incorporate characteristics of both problem and project-based learning.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Many schools in Iowa are trying to find small chunks of time that allow students to engage in some inquiry- or project-based learning. These might be class-level projects, teacher-led exploratories, or student-led ‘genius hours.’ Image and video credits: Spirit Lake High School. Real projects.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2023

What is the best way to teach? 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. Others favor discussions or group work.

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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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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. These are challenges that both Dwight and I are ready to address head on.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

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. He didn’t teach science. We learned science. All of his classes were amazing.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

To them, educators should teach significant topics like the 1950s and 1960s civil rights movement with more depth and breadth. history, education leaders have started to reckon with how to comprehensively teach history with an antiracism lens. And school districts are working to expand their curricula on race.

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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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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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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

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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

According to Seydel, when teachers use the school grounds as a way to learn about social issues, they’re using their school as a three-dimensional textbook. For example, schools’ energy and water conservation, architecture and lunches are rich with potential for project-based learning. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Michael Gallin is a math teacher at Kappa International High School in the Bronx. NEW YORK — Michael Gallin, a 34-year-old math teacher at KAPPA International High School in the Bronx, was winding his way through the cluttered aisles of his algebra classroom listening for sighs of frustration. Now, I say: ‘I can do this.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

Hameed’s students are participants in various programs through Hello Future , a nonprofit organization that works with teen refugees to bridge the education gap by teaching digital and financial literacy, critical thinking and entrepreneurship. The program teaches students how to use the internet as a tool for more than just communication.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2020

While we don’t know what this next school year will look like, there are a few things that are certain: it will be challenging and there will be a lot of unknowns. In Chicago, where I teach, we recently learned that our first semester will be entirely virtual. Related: Schools will look radically different during a pandemic.

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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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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. Teaching Machines. Chicago Review. Watters, A.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (KVEC) is one of eight education cooperatives in Kentucky, consisting of 22 member school districts and serving more than 50,000 learners. This summer, KVEC launched seven new micro-credentials, adding to the Teaching Rural Students from Poverty and Teaching Students with Disabilities stacks.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. In December, I visited Oxnard Union High School District, which launched a data science pathway in 2020.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2022

With BB2C’s first micro-credential, they verify the educator’s skill in developing and implementing real world, problem-based learning with community partners.*. Digital Promise & Verizon Innovative Learning Schools. Teach for America – Las Vegas. Carey Institute for Global Good. UTeach Computer Science.

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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. That’s the starting point.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

Called the Telstar Freshman Academy, or TFA, it involves all its district’s ninth graders in a hands-on learning method that uses outdoor-based projects and community-building activities as ways to teach across several disciplines. High school is not really working for most kids,” he said.

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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

Neriman now plans to become an educator working with grade-school children. After finishing school this summer, she’ll participate in a year-long placement to confirm that teaching is the right career for her before going to a technical college. Frank Rasche teaches woodwork and technical education at Ursula Kuhr Schule.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2020

Schools and districts looking to support their educators or individual educators looking for streamlined resources can utilize this stack to support digital learning that centers around equity and access. Educators are encouraged to complete this stack in order.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2020

A year before the pandemic began, my school district examined how this connection could help guide a student’s career path. In Alabama, jobs that require more than a high-school diploma but less than a bachelor’s degree account for 59 percent of the labor market. So, how does it all work?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

Universities still teach the same way they did in the Middle Ages!” Trustees at Wesleyan University, where I am president, have for years been singing the siren’s song to professors about the benefits of online teaching, and usually the answer they get is: “It just doesn’t work.” Will the 2020 coronavirus pandemic change that?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

They also tend to report greater collaboration skills, greater feelings of belongingness, higher levels of academic engagement, greater motivation to learn, and higher levels of self-efficacy. Plus there’s a ton of research confirming the power of project-based learning, inquiry-based learning, student agency, and so on.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

As a high school social studies teacher, my job includes helping students learn to use evidence to present arguments, engage in civil discourse and take informed action to bring about change. I like to think of this shift as a transition from content-based to issues-based curriculum. To what end?

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Learning through errors was twice as powerful based on instructional time. Teachers had to teach all eight sessions in the traditional instruction condition, totaling 360 minutes of instructional time. But teachers only had to teach every other session when students learned through errors, adding up to only 180 minutes.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 20, 2015

Higher level thinkers don’t just magically emerge from lower level learning spaces. If we want student learning to change, we have to change teaching and schooling. each regional Area Education Agency had the capacity to help its districts create project-based learning ‘incubators?’

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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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