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

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

MARCH 4, 2024

They attended a selective middle school, and were advanced enough to be taking algebra in eighth instead of ninth grade. Learning through errors was twice as powerful based on instructional time. Teachers had to teach all eight sessions in the traditional instruction condition, totaling 360 minutes of instructional time.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

In the fall of 2016, increasingly frustrated by his inability to motivate his students despite his energetic teaching style and popularity inside the classroom, he was drawn to the idea that addressing emotional barriers might help them. Gallin’s school was one of them. In 2016, a mere 37 percent of the school’s test-takers passed.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Neriman now plans to become an educator working with grade-school children. After finishing school this summer, she’ll participate in a year-long placement to confirm that teaching is the right career for her before going to a technical college. Frank Rasche teaches woodwork and technical education at Ursula Kuhr Schule.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Leave this field empty if you're human: Ten years ago, Courtney Dickinson wanted to create an innovative public school. 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. Higher Education.

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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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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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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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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Watch this video to see what teaching and learning in UNIVERSE looks like! EdSurge: How did your teaching journey lead you to try UNIVERSE with your college students? Mirecka-Jakubowska: That’s a very long story that goes back to the 1970s when I attended the United Nations International School in New York.

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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. But this is hard.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Related: As science denial grows, science museums fight back by teaching scientific literacy As parents have become more involved in their children’s education, they deserve to know how and where STEM is coming to life in their schools — and, more importantly, how to make sure that their children can take advantage of opportunities.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Undeterred, Doreen Gehry Nelson, now 86, went on to start her own nonprofit , win a slew of awards and share her city-building teaching methods with thousands of classroom teachers and other education professionals around the world, though not nearly as many as she would like. “As far as I’m concerned, you kill any creativity.”

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

Time constraints to demonstrate a competency are removed in this system of teaching and learning, and student transcripts have been adapted to reflect student progress in this system. Students at KM Perform leave high school with an understanding and ownership of how they learn best.

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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

MAY 21, 2018

Two studies on elementary schools published in June 2018 point to the importance giving teachers and students plenty of time to form relationships. Students may learn more. I think schools in many ways have put the cart before the horse. Related: Project-based learning and standardized tests don’t mix.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

He finds it easy to teach himself with online content as his guide. He breezily navigates the internet and educational platforms his school uses. The computers themselves bring concerns about the negative effects of screens on children’s learning and brain development. million in grant support for the Summit Learning Program.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 26, 2015

Twenty-nine states allow districts to define their own credits, according to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. As a result of this fragmented policy landscape, there are few models for schools to follow. “My teachers are not teaching me!” Credit: CompetencyWorks, iNACOL.

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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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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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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

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. Students attend in-person classes once per week.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

– Establishing our rules of play and group norms – Quick reactions to my TEDxDesMoines talk about extracurricular learning v. traditional classroom ‘projects’ (how is PBL different from what we normally do in our classes?) – Interrogating our instruction: Are these elementary and middle school projects any good?

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In this series, The Hechinger Report examines racial inequity in gifted classes and what schools are doing to fix it. Is it possible, they wonder, to teach all students at all levels together in one class? Today, the school requires subject teachers in each grade to teach the same content at the same time.

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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

Isabel Nava teaches second and third grade ESL classes at Lamar Elementary School in San Antonio. Looking out onto a standing-room-only crowd in the district’s boardroom near downtown, Martinez struggled to get through a financial presentation to the school board in May. “That doesn’t sit very well with me,” Sparks said.

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