ED Surge

JULY 21, 2023

Last September, I was sitting at a long table in the sunlit conference room of my school, looking around at the many new faces on my school’s leadership team. While some of these staff are newer to teaching, most are experienced educators who have come from other schools, bringing their own backgrounds, beliefs and ideas to the table.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Tacy Trowbridge Lead for Global Education Thought Leadership & Advocacy Adobe What importance does creativity play when it comes to college and career pathways? Research indicates that Generation Z students are technologically savvy and appreciate interdisciplinary, project-based learning experiences.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 15, 2017

One of the themes of my InnEdCO Leadership Academy keynote this year is the idea that there are multiple paths to future ready schools. That said, as I work with educators around the world, I see future-oriented schools playing around with some, or all, of these building blocks: Project- and inquiry-based learning environments.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. She had a teaching degree and while she never got a job as a teacher, she had a lot of ideas about how schools should operate. A major challenge has been navigating administrative red tape to get the right permissions and materials students need to complete their projects.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 12, 2015

A school board member said to me a while back: Scott, I hear what you’re saying about active, hands-on, project-based learning. Leadership and Vision Learning and Teaching authentic work learning vision' The fiction of most school mission statements. 3 big shifts.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 17, 2021

Project-based learning in Northwest Iowa. Silver Lining for Learning, Episode 02: Where (when) there is no school. Teaching and leading for higher student engagement … even during a pandemic (aka How I spent my summer). Image credit: Welcome , Krissy Venosdale. Related Posts.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Teaching Machines. Princeton University Press.

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

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: The kind of leadership and responsibility that shone through EB’s speech is actively encouraged at this unusual program in rural Maine. This style of learning, this family atmosphere that we have here, it’s a real positive in kids’ lives,” Dole said. . Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

MAY 28, 2024

It’s crucial that we teach students how to learn, how to think critically, and how to use content as a vehicle for problem-solving. Focusing on the Process of Learning Instead of hinging student success on a single exam, we should focus on the process of learning itself. The answer, quite simply, is no.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 15, 2011

Somewhere in our conversation that spanned multiple areas of educational leadership, we talked about how we regularly meet with groups of students in our respective schools. The facility will house up to 350 juniors and seniors who choose to select classes that offer creativity and project-based learning opportunities.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 24, 2016

Our teachers deserve specific, concrete instructional (re)design strategies and techniques; short-cycle feedback loops; ongoing conversation with teaching peers about successes and failures; and long-term, follow-up activities that ensure implementation success. 5 great slides about technology, learning, and change. Related Posts.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 5, 2019

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. Teachers were pleasantly surprised by the way their students took up their new freedom and responsibility.

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Project-Based Learning Middle School Leadership Research 123

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 21, 2016

We analyzed and strengthened our own personal and professional networks (both digital and analog), saw how connectedness is transforming both group interaction and individual relationships, and examined a number of connected learning initiatives for students and teachers. The weakest area of most school computing plans is the leadership.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

He finds it easy to teach himself with online content as his guide. The computers themselves bring concerns about the negative effects of screens on children’s learning and brain development. But while computers are the heart of Summit’s model, they’re designed to play a supporting role in teaching kids, not take center stage.

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Edthena

MAY 18, 2021

It’s no wonder that Tasha was also selected to be in a teacher leadership program where she is a mentor to other teachers in the building. In addition to teaching, he has served as department chair, swim coach, and Russian program manager. Daniel Miller. Fairfax County Public School System – Fairfax County, Va.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

It’s a moment when XQ Institute’s agenda — that schools should offer more project-based learning, allow more flexibility in their schedules, and assign classwork more explicitly connected to career paths that interest students — may excite education leaders searching for solutions.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 20, 2015

Higher level thinkers don’t just magically emerge from lower level learning spaces. If we want student learning to change, we have to change teaching and schooling. each regional Area Education Agency had the capacity to help its districts create project-based learning ‘incubators?’ some may already).

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts on K-12 school technology leadership issues. After 14 years as an Educational Leadership professor, Dr. McLeod currently serves as the Director of Innovation for Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency in Iowa. Scott McLeod, J.D., Register here! Related Posts.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2018

Learn from librarians and educational leaders how libraries engage learners with authentic STEM, computational thinking, and project-based learning. Micro-credentials for Leadership and Learning. Micro-learning Innovation for Macro-success. Technology will never replace great teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2018

Together with my leadership team, we introduced the staff to what we were trying to achieve in large groups, small groups and through individual conversations. We began with some open-ended questions and learned that they shared our desire to improve how we were allocating our time and resources.

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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. SpaRRk Academy hallways are filled with art projects and classroom work from the students.

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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. Theories vary.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 12, 2016

More recently, Van Meter has been diving deeply into project-based learning, standards-based grading, competency-based education, and flexible, modular schedules in which students can exercise some choice and determine how much time they need to spend on their various learning endeavors. Real projects.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 10, 2016

Co-located with a corporate startup accelerator at a former brownfield site of Iowa Steel, Iowa BIG is a project-based learning option for Cedar Rapids area high school students. Local businesses, nonprofits, and city agencies pitch proposed projects to the students, hoping that talented youth will take up their challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

The internships are also part of a larger turnaround effort at ChiTech, centered on project-based learning. The school, where more than 90 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and 14 percent are counted as homeless, was founded in 2009 to teach skills valued by the booming technology sector.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Many schools in Iowa are trying to find small chunks of time that allow students to engage in some inquiry- or project-based learning. These might be class-level projects, teacher-led exploratories, or student-led ‘genius hours.’ Real projects. What 64 schools can tell us about teaching 21st century skills [VIDEO].

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 11, 2016

Real projects. Project-based learning in Northwest Iowa. How could you shake up your school day to create time for student (and staff) inquiry? Image credit: Clear Lake Middle School. Related Posts. Real responsibility. Real contributions. Dreaming big at Iowa BIG. 10+1 reactions to closing Iowa’s achievement gaps.

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