A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 15, 2011

We learn more through interactive projects and our own successes/failures than through traditional means of assessment (i.e. The learning process is a partnership between teacher and student. The students want and need a voice in how they learn and how they demonstrate their learning.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In that earlier post, I highlighted the superficial adoption of technology in education, where tools were used to digitize traditional methods without fostering genuine innovation. As a result, the transformative power of technology has not been fully realized in enhancing student learning. in effect size. in effect size.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

The specific task of each group played a larger part in the Martian project. Through our research we came across a device called the mass driver. This was by far one of the most powerful learning experiences I ever engaged in as a student. It was relevant, meaningful, and fun.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 18, 2016

As Wagner and Dintersmith state in their book, “retained learning comes, to a very large extent, from applying knowledge to new situations or problems, research on questions and issues that students consider important, peer interaction, activities, and projects.”

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 30, 2016

Allowing students to research, discuss, and share their findings takes time. So many teachers trapped in a 50-minute schedule report feeling like they cannot embrace project-based learning, explore the value of makerspaces, or experiment with blended learning models. The big hurdle is time.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 5, 2016

Over the last two years, I’ve spent time exploring variations on the established blended learning models. In this post, I want to share three different ways teachers can shake up the traditional approach to the Station Rotation Model. Project-based learning time. Online research. Makerspace station.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

It is a tradition I have continued through the years. My research made it clear that two of the most significant factors impacting teacher engagement was the depth of our relationships with students and our relationships with our colleagues. 8 Projects can turn the world into our curriculum.

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ED Surge

JUNE 10, 2024

Innovative STEM programming requires a willingness to adopt emerging tools and technologies, as well as methodologies like project-based learning. We saw an opportunity to use Minecraft Education as a project-based learning tool in computer science, which is how Level Up Los Angeles was born.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

But researchers set up a review class to test a theory about the best way to study for a test. For the first eight sessions, half the students had a traditional review class. The kids who had been taught via traditional, explicit instruction switched to reviewing the remaining algebra topics through their errors.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. researchers collected all the studies they could find on peer interaction, in which children are either discussing or collaborating on an assignment together in small groups of two, three or four students. Then everyone was tested at the end of the exercise to see how much they learned.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Just this month, a group of researchers published their findings on the impact of district capital projects and used test scores to draw conclusions. Meanwhile, politicians, pundits , and researchers argue that schools and students would be worse off without them. And here we are…back at the end of the first paragraph.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 15, 2024

So, teachers who love the station rotation model may want to experiment with a fun variation of the traditional design of a rotation. This twist on the station rotation model combines the strategic collection and use of data with student agency to create a more personalized and student-centered approach to this blended learning model.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

Recent advances in neuroscience have provided increasing evidence that students learn best through experience. And career and technical education, or CTE, schools, with their higher graduation and college-going rates than traditional comprehensive high schools, are producing strong candidates. The effort is worth it.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

But in this twisted time, young children starting public pre-K at the age of 4 are expected to learn through “rigorous instruction.”. Strauss noted in her article that researcher R. It also seems to be a harsh indictment of school leaders’ inability to enact research-based (or even common sense) best practices.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The students do this through nine-week long, interdisciplinary projects that the Finnish call “phenomenon-based learning,” a term coined by the country’s National Agency for Education. Phenomenon-based learning is a lot like project-based learning, a more familiar term in the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments.” Here, learning is project-based, multi-grade and interdisciplinary. Over the last 20 years, scientists have learned a lot about how the adolescent brain works and what motivates middle schoolers.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2017

Throughout the district, traditional rows of desks have been updated and replaced with flexible learning spaces. are designing project-based learning units collaboratively. Adapting to create innovative environments. As a result of a $13.8

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

But what else was she learning in this maker space? But assessing these skills has been a weak link in these efforts, according to the education researchers at the MIT Playful Journey Lab , which hopes to remedy that with “playful assessment” tools. also known as Community Middle, part of the Albemarle County district.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

For anyone who’s spent time in an early childhood classroom, the idea that school should be as much about making friends and having fun as learning the alphabet will sound familiar. who attempt to replicate its project-based model. The adoption of the Common Core standards led many other schools to try the model , too.

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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. Others were jumping ahead to concepts that were grade levels ahead of what they would traditionally be learning.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 27, 2017

Here’s the new list (now 10 items instead of 8): Project- and inquiry-based learning environments that emphasize greater student agency and active application of more cognitively-complex thinking, communication, and collaboration skills. 5 videos on connected learning from the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub [VIDEOS].

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Digital Promise

MAY 28, 2020

Resources like the Challenge Based Learning framework , tools such as Teams , Flipgrid , Pear Deck (especially in student-paced mode ), and Wakelet , and this blog post about creating authentic distance learning in science class can help us prepare for this new type of work. Leveraging Better Time Management. Creativity Abounds.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Barbara Means, an educational psychologist at SRI International, a California-based research institute, says that while there is no hard data on the number of these schools, a reasonable estimate would be somewhere between 250 and 500. Information was based on surveys of 12th graders in 2012 in North Carolina and 2013 in Texas.

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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. And research shows that peer reviews build community among students and help them develop critical thinking and communication skills.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

Destiny Reyes, 18, spends one school day each week at the New England Aquarium and much of her schoolwork is built around research opportunities there. Like most young children, she liked learning new things, and she excelled at school. Offering students rewards for learning creates reliance on the reward. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 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. Personalized learning, project-based learning, mastery-based learning – they all require more work of teachers and more work of students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

This high failure rate, coupled with labor market needs, has led policymakers to tweak traditional vocational models to make them more flexible. The system gives students “a pretty good chance of finding a well-paid stable job,” said Leonard Geyer, a researcher at the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 24, 2016

I also shared that the research on motivation and engagement from Deci & Ryan, Hallie, and others shows quite clearly that autonomy and self-direction are fundamental human needs that we violate to the detriment of both our students and our proclaimed academic goals. 5 great slides about technology, learning, and change.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

If we overly obsess with separately developing someone’s mastery of the component parts (something traditional education can also be accused of) — shooting, passing, dribbling and defense — but they can’t put these things together in a game, what does it matter?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

In dozens of interviews, Summit leadership, education researchers, and the people who teach and learn in schools that use Summit agreed that the platform offers a systematic way to achieve the otherwise complicated, messy objective of personalizing learning. “How How do they draw that something is happening?”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

While such classrooms can look different from traditional elementary classrooms, and even appear chaotic at times, students are indeed learning how to interact with their peers and solidifying early math, science and literacy skills. The schools prioritize project-based learning and play.

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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. Students spend half of their day at their traditional, ‘mother ship’ high school and the other half at Iowa BIG. Real projects.

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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. But there is some indirect evidence.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Students who serve on the committees learn how to research, organize and identify solutions to issues in their schools, said Salgado. The committees are different from traditional student government, she said, because any student can join.

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Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2018

In partnership with the Ontario Ministry of Education, the Council of Ontario Directors of Education and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, I am leading a team of researchers to put makerspaces into elementary schools in 20 Ontario school boards. They also noticed a reduction in discipline problems.

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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. Related: Remote learning has been a disaster for many students. More than 250 kids signed up for SpaRRk.

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