Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

2 Providing a one-size-fits-all experience doesn’t work in any learning landscape. We all have unique interests, learning preferences, histories and life experiences, family dynamics, strengths, and weaknesses. 8 Projects can turn the world into our curriculum. Every person is different. This is not new.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. They are advocating for core curriculum changes in social studies — specifically American history — classes. And they aren’t the only ones advocating the adoption of such curricula.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Johnsrud: Educators can stay informed about future workforce trends, including emerging jobs and highly sought-after skills. It’s also important to equip them with professional-quality templates and assets so that the projects they’re creating actually look like professional outputs.

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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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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Phrases like personalized learning, trauma-informed approach, and whole child are quickly shown on slides and briefly discussed due to the content overload that is Back-to-School Night. One key term that seems to be popping up as a priority at schools is “project-based learning.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Mississippi Learning. Leave this field empty if you're human: “Wanting students to be able to ‘analyse, synthesise and evaluate’ information sounds like a reasonable goal,” writes Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. Higher Education. Proof Points.

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Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 18, 2024

If something was bothering my student, disciplinary actions, or positive behavior was happening, I would immediately inform the student’s parents. You might also like this to give you time back to foster positive parent teacher relationship United States History Course $ 200.00 Add to cart Sociology Course $ 200.00

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

We’ve also invested in bringing coding to life through project-based learning using Wonder Workshop’s educational robots, Dash and Dot. This winter, our after-school coding club and bi-weekly technology classes will allow students to continue learning about coding. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Working with Eskolta School Research and Design, a New York-based education-consulting firm, and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, a California-based education research center, the Department was testing solutions inside dozens of schools. Wolcott considered this information progress.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Those connections start with one-on-one mentoring, in which teachers meet with students weekly to discuss short-term goals, such as completing a certain number of units in a history course, and long-term goals that stretch into college and career. We don’t want to create gaps in our learning for our little ones.”.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

George Hawkins , a 2019 graduate of TAH’s Master of Arts with a Specialization in Teaching American History and Government (MASTAHG) program , was named South Dakota Teacher of the Year in October. Interdisciplinary Learning Hawkins works closely with a teaching partner who specializes in English Language Arts.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

MAY 28, 2024

In a world where knowledge is expanding at an unprecedented rate, should we still be focusing on rote memorization and regurgitation of information? It’s crucial that we teach students how to learn, how to think critically, and how to use content as a vehicle for problem-solving. The answer, quite simply, is no.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

The organization helps teenagers, teachers and school leaders hone the visions they pitch over many months by guiding them through information-gathering activities like hosting focus-group conversations with parents and taking field trips to check out thriving schools in other cities. teens won’t arrive for a while.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

AUGUST 24, 2023

The test bank contains 100 questions—about 60 relating to civics and government, 30 covering US history, and ten touching on geography and cultural topics. The information has become something for kids to memorize, not know by heart. It is done in an interview that also verifies proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing in English.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2023

Many educators probably weren’t surprised by today’s announcement of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test results for civics and history. Yet for the first time since the NAEP began testing students on civics some 35 years ago, the country has a clear path forward to improving civics and history education.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

The organization says it is producing and testing project-based learning experiences that will give students credits as well as certified badges that break courses into smaller components and recognize the skills they’ve gained. There is a clear business case for how skills-based training could help companies, Sevak says.

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TeachThought

JULY 31, 2024

Improving The Relationship Between Schools And Communities by Terry Heick Education is a series of learning experiences informed by policy, and actuated by teachers. Policy, by its very nature, is sweeping and ambitious. It is designed to work on various scales, is well-intentioned, and often difficult to fault on paper.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

Inspired by Ian Mortimer’s English history Time Traveller’s Guide series and David Mountain’s podcast The Backpacker’s Guide to Prehistory , I also drew on Nanjala Nyabola’s critiques of travel guides’ Othering and colonial outlooks, which shaped class discussions on ethics, identity, and tone in writing. As it turns out, a lot!)

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