Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2017

Mentor Public Schools is a suburban district 20 miles east of Cleveland, Ohio, which serves 7,650 preK-12 students across 42 square miles. are designing project-based learning units collaboratively. I hope they leave here wanting to create more of these opportunities in their districts.”

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Delaware Department of Education has added to their 17 early literacy micro-credentials that were launched in 2020 with 12 new micro-credentials to support early literacy throughout the state.*. Teach for America Las Vegas has published their first micro-credential, Solving Challenges Using Design Thinking in a K-12 Classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

My new book, “ From Reopen to Reinvent ,” makes a full-throated plea for more K-12 schools to adopt mastery-based learning, in which students only move on from a concept once they demonstrate mastery of the knowledge and skills at hand.

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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. The participation of HBCUs is notable in part because they play a key role in training future K-12 science teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In a new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit, a research group affiliated with the weekly magazine, many K-12 educators said they want to retool their teaching to match workforce needs but feel limited by meager budgets and inadequate access to technology.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2024

From my visits to the district’s high school data science classes and my conversations with teachers and students, two things became clear: The course’s structure is very different than a traditional math class – it’s an applied, project-based learning course in which students collaborate closely as they learn the material.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 27, 2019

Intergenerational learning brings together people of all ages in mutually beneficial learning experiences. Through intergenerational connections and project-based learning, HP Teaching Fellow Kim Mishkin is creating Powerful Learning experiences for students in grades 2–5 at the Hudson Lab School in Hudson-on-Hastings, New York.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

She argues interoperability will give schools the opportunity to take full advantage of the promise of “everything from project-based learning to personalized learning.” When you think about that on an annual basis, that’s incredibly illuminating in a resource-scarce environment like K-12 education.”.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2022

We are transitioning to more project-based learning environments where students can explore, problem solve and report their work back to others. How we measure learning is going to continue to evolve. Accelerating K-12 Learning Recovery. Addressing Learning Loss in Higher Education.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Research indicates that Generation Z students are technologically savvy and appreciate interdisciplinary, project-based learning experiences. How can infusing creativity in the K-12 setting help them when they leave our institution? Are students of today really that different from those of previous generations?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Project-based learning has become a popular method of deeply engaging students in assignments they can dig into over the course of several weeks or even months. Related: Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding. Sometimes kids had trouble finding records.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

Avoid the pitfalls of tech integration – technology for technology’s sake, focus on tools rather than the learning – by being thoughtful and purposeful about lesson (re)design. Sunday, June 28, 12:30pm to 3:30pm EDT (Eastern Daylight Time). Bring your own lessons and units, and we’ll help you make them better.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Jaunine Fouché, the director of the Agricultural and Environmental Education program, dedicates her days to finding new ways to let students further explore the concepts they learn in their classes with projects that have real-world impact and relevance. Agriculture-related projects aren’t the only ones Milton Hershey students work on.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

It’s a way of reimaging classroom practice, weaving creative thinking into the entire K-12 curriculum and connecting many subjects to cities built by students, with the help of educators she wishes were also thought of as artists. Students not only build cities, they create governments, infusing civics into the curriculum, too.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The inside of SR1 (Scientific Research), a nonprofit afterschool program serving local K-12 students, looks like a scene from the future. In addition to project-based learning, SR1 kids travel statewide and compete in robotics tournaments and visit college campuses. Photo: Imani Khayyam. RIDGELAND, Miss.—The

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Another 12 students came within a few points of passing. Over the past five years, the foundation has begun to address K-12 classrooms, bringing together university researchers, education consultants and hundreds of teachers like Gallin. The small tweaks paid off. In 2016, a mere 37 percent of the school’s test-takers passed.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

And when teachers can access real-time performance data, they can provide remedial and enrichment learning experiences that are tailored to each student. A handful incorporate project-based learning, virtual courses on niche topics and distance-learning programs.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The committees are housed within the Chicago school district’s social science and civic engagement department, which promotes civic engagement in and out of the classroom through K-12 social studies curriculum, service learning and civics-focused project-based learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Teachers attended workshops on Ozobots , Strawbees , LEGO WeDo 2.0 , and Micro:bit , all tools they could use in makerspaces, and they studied project-based learning strategies as well as new uses for Google applications in their classrooms. Their energy is transforming classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

“We are a highly disciplined, very structured school, known for squeezing the minutes, but we had to try and keep that and build in room for project-based learning,” Mann says. North Star ultimately found partners at Rutgers, Seton Hall, the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Related: Project-based learning and standardized tests don’t mix. This story about project-based learning was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

But what else was she learning in this maker space? Plus, evidence-based assessments could improve the overall quality of project-based learning by helping educators tailor projects to specific skills and vet a lesson’s overall effectiveness. Related: Project-based learning and standardized tests don’t mix.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Their work is a version of what educators call project-based learning, which means gaining knowledge by solving problems rather than by studying textbooks. But in this Colorado district, it can also mean learning by working on real jobs. When I was in high school, I wasn’t doing [projects like] this,” Garcia said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Related: A study finds promise in project-based learning for young low-income children. The instructions force children to debate and negotiate, during which they can clear up misunderstandings and deepen their knowledge. “Instructions are really important,” said Tenenbaum.

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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. More than 250 kids signed up for SpaRRk. Enrollment fell to about 600 students for this school year.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2020

Through this program, our brick-and-mortar teachers work alongside ALDCA teachers to combine a rigorous academic course load — which includes English, math and social studies — with online experiential learning opportunities like internships, job shadowing and project-based learning. So, how does it all work?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The students do this through nine-week long, interdisciplinary projects that the Finnish call “phenomenon-based learning,” a term coined by the country’s National Agency for Education. Phenomenon-based learning is a lot like project-based learning, a more familiar term in the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

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. who attempt to replicate its project-based model.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2018

A member of the nonprofit New Tech Network , the school showed me a different approach in classrooms, whereby teachers connected students with their learning in profound new ways. At the heart of the approach: project-based learning for all academic subjects.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

I’ve been particularly impressed by suggestions that lead to more active learning (or project-based learning) among students who are scattered across great distances. Professors all over the country have been sharing tips on making their online educational environments as interactive and potent as possible.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

Kelly Dole, who has taught science to freshmen in her Maine school district since 1998, says the recent shift to outdoor project-based learning in the Telstar Freshman Academy “has been a real positive in kids’ lives.” Related: A little-known program has lifted 9th grade performance in virtually every type of school.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2020

The Seattle board approved a million-dollar partnership between Washington Middle School and the nonprofit Technology Access Foundation (TAF), which will manage the school, overseeing major functions like hiring and implementing a project-based learning curriculum that uses real world problems to teach students academic disciplines.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Zaretta clarified, “Social learning is having kids do hard things as a result of being in a group and talking, project-based learning, maker education integrated arts, etc.”. However, this doesn’t mean teachers should simply assign more group work.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Related: A study finds promise in project-based learning for young low-income children. This study looked at whether student-centered learning could happen within the context of group work. It focused on four unidentified high schools, two in the Southeast, one in New England and one in the Midwest.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Related: Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding. Healey School to bring student-led, project-based learning to regular math, science, language arts and social studies classes. Related: Project-based learning and standardized tests don’t mix.

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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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