The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

Ninth-graders at the Science Leadership Academy work on a group project in science class. Instead, the schools have adopted an approach that’s become increasingly popular among education advocates and funders: project-based learning. Related: Can a school save a neighborhood? I’m into the process.”.

Project-Based Learning 106

Project-Based Learning Leadership High School Tradition 106

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Two years ago I had the incredible opportunity to work with the entire leadership team of District 59 in Arlington Heights, Illinois for SEVEN days. They labeled it their ‘21st Century Leadership Academy.’ And we can build on all of that to start implementing new instructional and leadership paradigms in schools and classrooms.

Leadership 107

Leadership Professional Development Geography Project-Based Learning 107

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

She also found a bright side: freedom from the constraints of public-school systems as she designed her innovative school. Pyne Arts Magnet School in Lowell. But despite their vastly different student populations, the two schools share similar educational philosophies.

Public School 113

Public School Project-Based Learning Pedagogy Leadership 113

Digital Promise

JUNE 5, 2019

Yet, as we shared previously , 18 teachers from three districts in the League of Innovative Schools have pushed themselves to do just this. Challenge Based Learning (CBL) is a type of project-based learning distinguished by its insistence that students engage with, investigate , and act on authentic and motivating challenges.

Project-Based Learning 120

Project-Based Learning Middle School Leadership Research 120

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. On the infrastructure side, Havre’s schools got switches and servers, but they also got a week of strategizing and support. Their energy is transforming classrooms. But this is hard.

Project-Based Learning 88

Project-Based Learning Public School Elementary School Professional Development 88

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. Related: A study finds promise in project-based learning for young low-income children.

Charter School 111

Charter School Project-Based Learning Tradition Middle School 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

A network of charter schools in California and Washington developed the Summit Learning Program for their students almost a decade ago; the model got a boost in 2014 from Facebook engineers after Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, visited a Summit middle school. How do they draw that something is happening?”.

Junior High 134

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 134