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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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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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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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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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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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

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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Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2017

The district provides opportunities to its students through its emphasis on the fundamental ABCs – adapting, balancing, and collaborating – which they will highlight at the spring 2017 League of Innovative Schools meeting in late April. are designing project-based learning units collaboratively.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

For the first eight sessions, half the students had a traditional review class. The kids who had been taught via traditional, explicit instruction switched to reviewing the remaining algebra topics through their errors. And the kids who had been correcting their errors received eight sessions of traditional test prep.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

That research indicates that students in these schools generally have higher scores on both traditional state tests and international assessments. In other words, compared to more traditional schools, these schools ROCK IT on many of the outcomes that we say that we are trying to achieve for our students.

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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. Harvard University Press. Stewart, A. Chicago Review.

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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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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

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Now the middle school, along with two of the district’s other elementary schools and its high school, have makerspaces. Walking through Havre Public Schools this year, a visitor would likely take note of the makerspaces. Related: A study finds promise in project-based learning for young low-income children.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

I visited many elementary and middle schools where students, with bulging headphones wrapped over their heads, stared at separate computers, each learning something different at the same moment. Others were jumping ahead to concepts that were grade levels ahead of what they would traditionally be learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Welcome to Community Lab School, a tiny public charter that is trying to transform the way middle schoolers are taught in the Albemarle School District — and eventually the nation. Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments.” Chad Ratliff, principal of Community Lab School.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

Surveys reveal a steady decline in student engagement throughout middle and high school, a trend that Gallup deemed the “school engagement cliff.” The latest data from the company’s Student Poll found that 74 percent of fifth graders felt engaged, while the same was true of just 32 percent of high school juniors.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

Moving to mastery-based learning ought to create more transparency and a greater focus on these habits, not less. Related: PROOF POINTS: Education official sounds alarm bell about high school classes. This is a problem in the current system as well.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

This high failure rate, coupled with labor market needs, has led policymakers to tweak traditional vocational models to make them more flexible. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

The two had spent nearly seven years designing a new kind of high school meant to address the needs of students who didn’t thrive in a traditional setting. They’d developed a projects-driven curriculum that would give students nearly unprecedented control over what they would learn, in a small, supportive environment.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 29, 2019

“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).

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 12, 2016

Van Meter was one of our earliest districts to implement a 1-to-1 student computing initiative and also was one of the first districts in Iowa to be named an Apple Distinguished School. Image credit: Free library made from a milk vending machine, Van Meter Schools. Real projects. Project-based learning in Northwest Iowa.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Whether high school graduates transition to college or a career, there is a good chance that they will tap into their creative skills. Research indicates that Generation Z students are technologically savvy and appreciate interdisciplinary, project-based learning experiences.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Personalized learning, project-based learning, mastery-based learning – they all require more work of teachers and more work of students.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 10, 2016

Co-located with a corporate startup accelerator at a former brownfield site of Iowa Steel, Iowa BIG is a project-based learning option for Cedar Rapids area high school students. Students spend half of their day at their traditional, ‘mother ship’ high school and the other half at Iowa BIG.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

. — Mentor Schools (@mentorschools) February 3, 2017. Kettle Moraine School District – Wales, WI. Kettle Moraine School District has created charter schools like KM Perform within its traditional high school to accommodate student interests. Evergreen School District – San Jose, CA.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

They also organized an in-person component: Once a week, students would gather in reserved classrooms in a local elementary school, for activities such as science experiments, project-based learning and reading groups. Related: Remote learning has been a disaster for many students. It is changing.”

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 25, 2024

This dynamic also robs students of opportunities to pursue their interests or take ownership of their learning journey. It’s no surprise that by high school, nearly 75% of students report negative feelings – tired, stressed, and bored– about school (Moeller, Brackett, Ivcevic & White, 2020). Moeller, J.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Related: Project-based learning and standardized tests don’t mix. Housing stability, food insecurity, behavioral health needs of the child or their family — all of these things affect achievement in school,” she said. “So, So, to only look at performance in school … that’s just such a naïve marker of progress.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Related: Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding. The school’s most recent rating from the Arizona Department of Education is an F, due to below-average student growth and achievement. Kids working on projects often create a more chaotic classroom, filled with chatter and commotion.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

Hawkins has worked for 12 years in the New Tech Network of schools and academies. Established in 1996, this national nonprofit helps schools and school districts implement project-based learning, in which students acquire academic knowledge while completing projects that put that knowledge to work.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2016

But ironically, a fixed syllabus of readings and assignments for open-ended project-based learning courses may prevent us from capitalizing on “teachable moments.”. In the learning sciences, teachable moments go by many names: impasse-driven learning, preparation of future learning, desirable difficulties, or productive failure.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Indeed, despite the buzz around personalized learning, there’s no simple recipe for success, and the common ingredients — such as adaptive-learning technology and student control over learning — can backfire if poorly implemented. The Summit program was designed for high school students and expanded to middle schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

It’s one of the state’s only virtual schools operated by a traditional district. Related: Free, no frills programs lead the class in new federal study of remote learning. Learning from Lockdown. Even when she’s instructing a student from a distance, she learns about them and their home environment. “We

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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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