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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Charter School K-12 Middle School Elementary School 110

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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Charter School Project-Based Learning Tradition Middle School 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

The kids worked at tables surrounded by craft supplies, 3-D printers and woodworking tools in the maker space of Corte Madera School, a public school for grades 4 to 8 nestled in the San Mateo County hills. But what else was she learning in this maker space? Bechtel could readily recite the definition of satire.

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Education Project-Based Learning Charter School Tradition 111

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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Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

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. Changing the culture.

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Project-Based Learning Middle School Public School Cultures 103

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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Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 84

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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Professional Development Middle School Project-Based Learning Leadership 73

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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Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 132

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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High School Tradition Tutoring Project-Based Learning 111

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. Fairfax County Public School System – Fairfax County, Va. Griffith Public Schools – Griffith, Ind.

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Social Justice Archiving Public School Project-Based Learning 52

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. 77 percent of public school students are economically disadvantaged. Wells Middle School, D.C.’s

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Teaching Economics High School Private School 141

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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High School Project-Based Learning Charter School Elementary School 104

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The plan serves as a way to integrate some schools in what has historically been a majority Hispanic district by bringing students with vastly different socioeconomic backgrounds together in the same classrooms, an approach that is known to improve academic performance and overall life outcomes.

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Charter School K-12 Elementary School Economics 45