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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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Research indicates that Generation Z students are technologically savvy and appreciate interdisciplinary, project-based learning experiences. She supports students in exploring their gifts and interests through projects and encourages educators to start by substituting a traditional assignment with an opportunity to create.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Related: A study finds promise in project-based learning for young low-income children. Then everyone was tested at the end of the exercise to see how much they learned. Learning gains were measured by comparing before and after tests. “Instructions are really important,” said Tenenbaum.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Compared to children at a traditional school, students at Hellerup have a tremendous amount of freedom in how they work. Like traditional schools, Hellerup’s student body is divvied up into grades; students are assessed based on projects, portfolios, and standardized tests; and teachers follow the national curriculum.

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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 10, 2018

They’re in four out of the district’s five traditional schools and they’re well-stocked, a set-up that might come as a surprise given that Havre is a rural district near the Canadian border, a place one might not expect to see the latest technologies. Related: A study finds promise in project-based learning for young low-income children.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

For anyone who’s spent time in an early childhood classroom, the idea that school should be as much about making friends and having fun as learning the alphabet will sound familiar. who attempt to replicate its project-based model. The adoption of the Common Core standards led many other schools to try the model , too.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Students who serve on the committees learn how to research, organize and identify solutions to issues in their schools, said Salgado. The committees are different from traditional student government, she said, because any student can join.

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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

JUNE 26, 2019

In her decades at the traditional high school, she saw her students becoming increasingly aimless and disengaged. But since 2014, she says, when the district introduced this new outdoor project-based approach, students’ ambition and sense of identity have dramatically improved. Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

“These studies are important because they tell us that teacher-student relationships matter,” said Tyrone Howard, a professor of education at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is writing a book on the research about students’ relationships with their teachers and how well they learn. ”I Sometimes the students moved classrooms.

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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 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. More than 250 kids signed up for SpaRRk.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Often, students struggling in these subjects find ways around taking them in traditional high schools, and, lacking the mandatory prerequisites, are ineligible to take advanced math and science classes in college. Information was based on surveys of 12th graders in 2012 in North Carolina and 2013 in Texas. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

“Ninth graders who have spent their whole life being told what to learn, some of them don’t even know what they’re interested in because they haven’t been given the opportunity.”. In traditional schools, it’s easier to offer a steady stream of rewards and punishments to keep students in line. Students don’t take traditional classes.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Nearly 400 schools use the Summit Learning Program across 40 states. The online platform includes a project-based curriculum for science, social studies, math and English language arts for students in grades four through 12, along with additional content in those subjects that students can tackle at their own pace.

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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. We don’t want to create gaps in our learning for our little ones.”.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

At the K-12 level, there’s been a push to create more flexibility in the school day for “immersive experiences,” like internships and hands-on projects, from players such as XQ Institute, the nonprofit supported by Emerson Collective that since 2015 has poured millions of dollars into efforts across the country to “rethink high school.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

He spends half the week at Lamar and the other half at Bowden Academy, a pre-K through 8th grade school just a 10-minute drive south, where he was installed as principal this fall. More than 12 have already expressed interest. Both schools enroll mostly low-income Hispanic students. Laura Skelding for The Texas Tribune.

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