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.’ Image and video credits: Spirit Lake High School. Real projects.

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JUNE 10, 2024

Learning by Making: Knowledge construction is most effective when learners are actively involved in making something tangible. Project-Based Learning: Emphasis on projects that result in a tangible artifact or product. Influential Theorist: Seymour Papert Key Elements of Constructionism 1.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

In a middle school hallway in Charlottesville, Virginia, a pair of sixth grade girls sat shoulder to shoulder on a lime-green settee, creating comic strips that chronicled a year of pandemic schooling. . Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments.” CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. —

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. They gave them real-world problems to solve, they sent them outside to explore, they prioritized hands-on projects.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

They attended a selective middle school, and were advanced enough to be taking algebra in eighth instead of ninth grade. The Hechinger Report is an independent news organization based at Teachers College, Columbia University, but has no relationship with the middle school or the researchers involved in the study. )

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Pyne Arts Magnet School in Lowell. But despite their vastly different student populations, the two schools share similar educational philosophies.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Related: Middle schools are experimenting with themes like math, sustainability and the arts. At Ursula Kuhr Schule , students in the school’s woodworking lab build birdhouses and toy cars. The teachers do everything for us — they don’t want anyone to finish school and have nothing.” But is it all just branding?

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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.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 29, 2019

“Polk County is one of the counties you don’t think about very much,” said Nakia , a student at Chilhowee Middle School in Benton, Tennessee, a small rural town of fewer than 2,000 people. We’d look at another school that has technology, and we’re like, ‘Wow … I wish we had those possibilities.’”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2020

The Seattle School Board is taking steps to dismantle a gifted and talented program at one of its middle schools to make room for a more racially inclusive curriculum. But, too often, gifted and talented programs create separate tracks that end up creating segregated systems within schools.

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Digital Promise

JULY 21, 2020

In Broward County Public Schools (Florida), their Global Scholars initiative connects middle school students to other participating schools around the world. In the context of COVID-19, this opportunity is especially powerful.

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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.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

Vista Unified School District – Vista, CA. Located in southern California, Roosevelt Middle School is part of an interstate collaboration with two other middle schools located in Mentor, Ohio, and Kettle Moraine, Wisconsin, to further competency-based education (CBE).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

But what else was she learning in this maker space? With scarcely a month left in the school year, why was it worth spending time making videos rather than covering the next academic standard? also known as Community Middle, part of the Albemarle County district. Related: Project-based learning and standardized tests don’t mix.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2023

That’s why GreatSchools , the nonprofit school information site that helps parents navigate education, partnered with Project Lead The Way (PLTW), a nonprofit organization that encourages STEM-based careers for students through hands-on, project-based learning starting in pre-K.

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

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I had very good training as a substitute teacher in my first year at TASIS Hellenic International School in Greece. I went to school every morning, and whoever was absent, I replaced that person. So I taught Greek, Arabic, PE, first grade, 12th grade, IB, middle school — anything! Who’s going to teach them?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Related: Proof Points: Four new studies bolster the case for project-based learning In the same district, science teacher David Cameron uses design-based learning in the chemistry and computer science classes he teaches at Gabrielino High School, while a middle school in Walnut, California, is successfully using DBL to teach science standards.

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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

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 11, 2016

Clear Lake Middle School (CLMS) knew where it wanted to go. It just needed to put some new structures in place to get there… Teacher learning. A school that used to work for a few students now gives all of its students a chance to shine and have a voice. Image credit: Clear Lake Middle School.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

She was at the top of her class, and she proved herself further by testing into a competitive, private middle school. But there, among Providence’s brightest, it wasn’t as easy to be at the top of the class, and her excitement about school – and learning – subsided. Eventually, she says, nothing motivated her.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 26, 2015

As a result of this fragmented policy landscape, there are few models for schools to follow. For the 2014-15 school year, Piedmont Middle School, in rural northeast Alabama, reimagined how its students learn by letting them progress based on their mastery of skills and standards.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2018

This is the story of what happened when teachers and administrators in Aurora, Colorado, worked side by side to redesign a middle school. Together, we were able to innovate, plan and produce a flexible school model aimed at improving student performance, engagement and equity. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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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.

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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?”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Mendoza’s involvement in civic participation started in middle school, when she signed up for the All City Council Student Union, a student-led group sponsored by the Oakland school district that gives students a voice in school district decision-making. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Day 3: Problem- and Inquiry-Based Learning – Review of last session’s evaluations and our rules of play – Crowdsourcing – Understanding how Wikipedia really works – Crowdsourcing ideas for students and teachers – Essential elements of project-based learning – PBL v.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2018

The moment a teacher opens the door to their classroom at the beginning of a new school year, if they understand learner variability, they will see a design challenge, not a student challenge. Learn from librarians and educational leaders how libraries engage learners with authentic STEM, computational thinking, and project-based learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

It’s not always easy to tell whether the new approaches help overall student performance, because schools interested in this type of experimentation are often innovating in other ways as well: changing grading policies, moving to more project-based learning models and rethinking discipline strategies.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The schools shared other traits, such as support for underrepresented students, early college-level courses, project-based learning and partnerships in the field. Keeping kids motivated to get through math is difficult for these schools,” Means said. You’ll never get away from math in any field,” she said.

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Edthena

MAY 18, 2021

Putnam County Schools – Eatonton, Ga. Tasha Jones is an ELA middle school teacher and this year has set up her classroom for virtual success for students who decided to stay home due to COVID-19. Griffith Public Schools – Griffith, Ind. It is truly an honor to be chosen for this award!” Tasha Jones.

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Digital Promise

MAY 19, 2020

For example, Jessica Bibbs-Fox, a teacher in Compton Unified School District, transformed the COVID-19 pandemic into an authentic, project-based learning experience that integrates computational thinking practices into her virtual middle school science class.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Before Rockville Centre detracked math in the ninth and 10th grades, for example, it added support math classes in middle school so that all students graduated eighth grade having completed algebra. Wells Middle School, D.C.’s s newest SEM school, opened just last year.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

But several trends once relegated mainly to progressive schools or alternative schools for at-risk students are reaching the mainstream and have even been embraced by entire states. The adoption of the Common Core standards led many other schools to try the model , too. who attempt to replicate its project-based model.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Meanwhile, Ogden Academy, a chronically low-performing pre-K through 7th grade school in one of the city’s poorest ZIP codes, now serves as a training ground for student teachers from the Relay Graduate School of Education, a teacher training program founded by charter school operators. The environment here isn’t so good.

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