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How One District Takes STEM Learning to the Next Level

ED Surge

Innovative STEM programming requires a willingness to adopt emerging tools and technologies, as well as methodologies like project-based learning. We saw an opportunity to use Minecraft Education as a project-based learning tool in computer science, which is how Level Up Los Angeles was born.

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Lessons from a school without walls

The Hechinger Report

On each of the school’s three stories, teams of teachers huddle to discuss new pedagogies, while some students chitchat and others present their latest projects, all under the bright, clear light of the atrium windows. No classroom walls divide them. “It Related: What’s school without grade levels?

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High school should be more like preschool

The Hechinger Report

What happens is that the academic pedagogy keeps getting pushed down, down, down and quashing what early childhood development is all about. Project-based learning, in which students embark on long research or art projects, science experiments or even writing books , is one of the hottest trends in high school reform.

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

The Hechinger Report

With this “Real-World Learning” program, ChiTech joins a growing number of schools devoting big chunks of the year to internships, despite the perennial classroom time crunch. The internships are also part of a larger turnaround effort at ChiTech, centered on project-based learning.

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Massachusetts districts now trade notes on best paths to personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

The district made sure each child had a laptop to use in class almost a decade ago, according to the current director of digital learning, Grace Magley. The thing about personalized learning is it looks very different in every district, in every school.”. For the last three years or so, however, the focus has shifted.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests. We need to set a strong foundation.