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Project-based learning and standardized tests don’t mix

The Hechinger Report

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. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. I’m into the process.”.

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Alternative Learning: Supporting Our At-Promise Students

A Principal's Reflections

Flexibility in terms of the learning environment is pivotal, including start times, small group settings, unique classroom design, work-study options, and virtual coursework. In terms of pedagogy, personalized learning strategies and project-based learning should be emphasized.

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New Year Leadership Challenge 1: Same-age grouping

Dangerously Irrelevant

[Instead of just challenge-based learning , how about challenge-based leadership?]. In practice, different students learn at different rates in different disciplines. New Year Leadership Challenge 1: Same-age grouping. Project-based learning in Northwest Iowa. Related Posts.

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Investing in leadership capacity: The amazing, wonderful District 59

Dangerously Irrelevant

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.

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Transactional vs. Transformational Teaching

Catlin Tucker

The more I learn about leadership, the more convinced I am that teachers need leadership training in credential school. If teachers were trained on leadership styles and techniques instead of classroom management strategies, would they have more success working with students? Organizational Dynamics , 18 (3), 19-31.

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The League Meets the West Coast: A Look Into the Fall 2022 League Convening

Digital Promise

Over two and a half days, district leaders explored how emerging technologies can support powerful learning, surfaced and shared innovative learnings and leadership practices, and helped us welcome the League of Innovative Schools 2022-2023 cohort. Keynote speaker, Michael Bonner, addressing League convening attendees.

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Trying to improve remote learning? A refugee camp offers some surprising lessons

The Hechinger Report

Hello Future uses a curriculum enriched with project-based learning, in which students do longer, in-depth collaborative projects. For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling. Project-based learning is already gaining traction in U.S.