Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Students from Compton Unified School District demonstrating Assistant Superintendent John Wright (Orange County Public Schools) the working they are completing on their iPads. Student from El Segundo Unified School District explaining her classwork to Superintendent Abdulsaleem Hasan (East Orange School District).

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2019

In her role as an instructional technology coach, HP Teaching Fellow Colleen McNerney collaborates with teachers throughout Elizabeth Public Schools (New Jersey) on projects that infuse technology into project-based learning. Halloran School No. Creating Cross-Cultural Connection and Collaboration.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2023

These and similar scenes from public schools around the country are more than just young learners having fun with recycled materials. This is STEM education in action: Hands-on projects help students develop critical thinking skills while sparking interest in science, technology, engineering and math.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2020

But, too often, gifted and talented programs create separate tracks that end up creating segregated systems within schools. For instance, Seattle Public Schools began offering advanced courses in the 1980s through its “Individual Progress Program” to prevent white families from leaving the district. Public Schools did years ago.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2020

I don’t know anyone who felt equipped to jump to remote learning effectively overnight. As I’m preparing for another round of distance learning, I’m now able to reflect on what can be done differently. Related: What if public schools never reopen? That starts with federal funding.

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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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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 2, 2023

When Fine and Mehta set off to find examples of deeper learning, they assumed they would find it in places that had been ostensibly set up for that purpose, innovative schools built on a foundation of project-based learning, exclusive schools that were known for strong academic programs, and charters that had reported remarkable academic gains.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

It was definitely painted in the light that ‘these problems are in the past’ and ‘America is the land of the free’ and ‘everyone is equal here.’ ” Ankita Ajith, student at Northwestern University and graduate of Texas public schools. Related: Students sick of ‘lip service’ from universities over racism.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

They’d developed a projects-driven curriculum that would give students nearly unprecedented control over what they would learn, in a small, supportive environment. Resnick and Duffy had spent countless hours shepherding this school through the political thickets that all new public schools face.

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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. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

In an experiment on how best to study for a math test, learning through errors was pitted against working through practice problems in a Barron’s study guide, pictured above. They were preparing for a critical test, the New York State’s Regents examination in algebra.

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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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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Research indicates that Generation Z students are technologically savvy and appreciate interdisciplinary, project-based learning experiences. Katie Fielding Instructional Technology Coordinator Arlington Public Schools, VA Not every student is going to go to college.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Leave this field empty if you're human: That’s the mindset Mote wants all school districts to take on. Subscribe today!

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Other school districts are also trying to elevate student voices in education policy and avoid “tokenism,” as Cristina Salgado puts it. She was hired as the student voice specialist at Chicago Public Schools in 2012 to oversee the district’s newly created “student voice committees.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Related: A study finds promise in project-based learning for young low-income children. This study looked at whether student-centered learning could happen within the context of group work. It focused on four unidentified high schools, two in the Southeast, one in New England and one in the Midwest.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Shareece DeLeon, a teacher at Impact Public School’s Salish Sea Elementary, accepts plastic food items from one of her students during a 90-minute block of play time. It’s not just play for play’s sake,” said Lauren Ellis, senior director of early learning at Impact Public Schools, though free play is also important, she added.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

While the highlights of each of these visits are vast, below are five amazing schools we visited in League districts that are educating students in creative, forward-thinking ways. Mentor Public Schools – Mentor, OH. Mentor Public Schools has a school dedicated to serving students with autism.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Blended learning was the gateway to personalized learning in the Natick Public Schools, about 20 miles west of Boston. The district made sure each child had a laptop to use in class almost a decade ago, according to the current director of digital learning, Grace Magley. Public Schools.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 26, 2015

One of the biggest challenges for public schools is change management. Eventually, she began to use more project-based learning, letting students collaborate in groups based on their common strengths and weaknesses and providing one-on-one support to those who needed extra motivation. Changing the culture.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 15, 2018

We, like many, have found that unflinching perpetuation of an industrial schooling model doesn’t support learners to develop critical competencies needed now or in the future. As the three of us came together to work in schools in Central Virginia and beyond, we were, at our core, observers.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

We’ve also invested in bringing coding to life through project-based learning using Wonder Workshop’s educational robots, Dash and Dot. Joli Boucher is a technology specialist for the Plymouth Public Schools. Sign up here for our 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. SpaRRk Academy hallways are filled with art projects and classroom work from the students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

77 percent of public school students are economically disadvantaged. Many students from higher-income families go to private schools or move to the suburbs to avoid attending schools where a large proportion of students perform below grade level. Public Schools closed its gifted and talented programs.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

This activity was part of a design workshop hosted by DC + XQ, a partnership between the city’s public schools and the nonprofit XQ Institute. school leaders said they’ve been taking for the past few years as they started their own efforts to rethink the city’s schools. Public Schools. In 2018, D.C.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2016

Students benefit long-term from real-world learning experiences. Pam Moran of Albemarle Public Schools in Charlottesvile, Va., is one of the nation’s leading advocates for real-world-relevant maker learning opportunities for students. Storytelling -- around success and failure -- is essential.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

This kind of experience may be common at New Jersey’s most selective and wealthiest suburban high schools, but McGee graduated from North Star Academy College Preparatory High School in Newark, where 84 percent of the students are economically disadvantaged and 98 percent are black or Latino.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Fears about data privacy and screen time, along with concerns about Silicon Valley’s conflicting interests as it pushes into public schools, have battered Summit’s reputation. There have been highly publicized problems in some districts that have adopted the program. How do they draw that something is happening?”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

With this “Real-World Learning” program, ChiTech joins a growing number of schools devoting big chunks of the year to internships, despite the perennial classroom time crunch. The internships are also part of a larger turnaround effort at ChiTech, centered on project-based learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Related: Despite its high-tech profile, Summit charter network makes teachers, not computers, the heart of personalized learning. The effort is led by one of the most celebrated leaders of the blended- and personalized-learning movement, California-based charter network Summit Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2018

Together, we were able to innovate, plan and produce a flexible school model aimed at improving student performance, engagement and equity. Aurora Hills Middle School is the first school in the Aurora Public Schools district to pilot the model.

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Edthena

MAY 18, 2021

Fairfax County Public School System – Fairfax County, Va. Broken Arrow Public Schools – Broken Arrow, Okla. Holden Rowe, a science teacher, is a positive leader at Broken Arrow High School. Griffith Public Schools – Griffith, Ind. Daniel Miller. ” Holden Rowe. Jill Taylor.

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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. One common thread, she wrote in a report on her work, was that students saw themselves as capable in math and sciences and were comfortable using technology.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

That is the consensus emerging from education leaders across the country as the nation enters a second year of schooling in a pandemic. A public school district in Arizona is looking to become a service provider for parents who have pulled their children out to home-school them. Credit: Nicholas Serpa.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2023

Developed with input from more than 300 experts from across the viewpoint spectrum, the roadmap promotes a student-centric model of teaching that prioritizes inquiry and project-based learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2018

As the school continues to find its footing, it can offer lessons for other schools to follow, even if they do so on a smaller scale. In many ways, Reichstein insists, Hellerup is “a completely normal public school, with the same goals as everyone else.” Related: What’s school without grade levels?

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