A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 24, 2021

While an array of successful strategies associated with more traditional methodologies still have value today, we need to rethink how and when they are used. Flexibility in terms of the learning environment is pivotal, including start times, small group settings, unique classroom design, work-study options, and virtual coursework.

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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

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. And the kids who had been correcting their errors received eight sessions of traditional test prep.

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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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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 10, 2022

I’d argue that the answer is , in part, giving them the permission and tools to rethink traditional workflows. These traditional workflows do not position the students to be active agents or help them to develop into expert learners, who are resourceful, strategic, motivated, and self-aware.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Rodriguez stressed exploring alternative pathways and assessments to traditional instruction. Pajaro Valley School District determined that when students are engaged in learning connected to their interests, outcomes improved. Still from U.S. Keynote speaker, Michael Bonner, addressing League convening attendees.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

APRIL 14, 2024

For instance, in a project-based learning setup, AI can suggest design modifications for student projects based on historical data and trends, effectively becoming a “member” of the project team.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

Established in 1996, this national nonprofit helps schools and school districts implement project-based learning, in which students acquire academic knowledge while completing projects that put that knowledge to work. He did his student teaching in a traditional classroom.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2020

The Balanced Cycles provide nearly 30 hours of professional learning at a fraction of the usual cost. A community discussion forum also supports collaboration across districts, so you’ll get the benefit of shared ideas and insights beyond your own school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2019

Seventh grade students offer feedback on projects by sixth graders at Stony Brook School, where about 40 students in each grade get interdisciplinary, project-based learning. It’s a cool way to learn something,” Roman said. Instead of learning and taking a test. It’s more free.”.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I integrated project-based learning and technology in all kinds of ways. I asked them to create blogs to interact through blended learning. As technology continued to develop, I often thought, Oh, that’s something my students need to know for their future. Who’s going to teach them? I asked them to create websites.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

PHILADELPHIA — In a city that’s struggled to meet the educational needs of many of its children, especially its most vulnerable ones, a select group of district high schools is shunning the traditional classroom model in which teachers dispense knowledge from the front of the room and measure progress with tests. I’m into the process.”.

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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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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 7, 2017

As I began to pilot NEW School this year, my goals were to: provide students with individualized learning paths. make time for conversations about where students are at in their learning. engage students in meaningful project-based learning. provide real-time feedback on student work.

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ED Surge

JUNE 13, 2022

I recommend project-based learning as a way to help students develop and gather feedback on skills not necessarily emphasized in traditional instruction. Recommended Resources. Supporting student success in Alberta, Canada. Open educational resource curation guide.

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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. She supports students in exploring their gifts and interests through projects and encourages educators to start by substituting a traditional assignment with an opportunity to create.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 18, 2016

Ultimately, I hope to prove that pockets of innovation can happen on traditional school campuses. My high school serves 1750 students and the traditional design of school does not work for every student. I’ll be sharing my journey on my blog as I attempt to make my vision a reality!

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Edthena

JANUARY 28, 2021

Peer-based learning, structured learning environments, and team-based competition are all strategic learning principles that are here to stay. Hybrid and virtual classrooms, and personalized and project-based learning used to be considered “alternative” methods of education.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

This was by far one of the most powerful learning experiences I ever engaged in as a student. Mr. South had us actively learn science instead of just taking notes and then a traditional assessment. It was relevant, meaningful, and fun. Real-world predictable and unpredictable problems were tackled.

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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. In the 1960s, practical and project-based learning was common in Danish schools, Hutters said.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 18, 2015

I just left this comment at Tony Tepedino’s blog in response to his statement that we have to stop pretending that academic rigor can only occur in a traditional classroom setting: I have seen innovative, project-based learning environments killed – by OTHER TEACHERS IN THE SCHOOL!!!!

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

But what else was she learning in this maker space? Plus, evidence-based assessments could improve the overall quality of project-based learning by helping educators tailor projects to specific skills and vet a lesson’s overall effectiveness. Related: Project-based learning and standardized tests don’t mix.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2018

They’re in four out of the district’s five traditional schools and they’re well-stocked, a set-up that might come as a surprise given that Havre is a rural district near the Canadian border, a place one might not expect to see the latest technologies. Related: A study finds promise in project-based learning for young low-income children.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

For instance, the Hewlett Foundation and the American Institutes for Research have been studying ‘deeper learning schools’ in project- and inquiry-based learning networks such as High Tech High, the New Tech Network, Big Picture Learning, and the EL Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

In her decades at the traditional high school, she saw her students becoming increasingly aimless and disengaged. But since 2014, she says, when the district introduced this new outdoor project-based approach, students’ ambition and sense of identity have dramatically improved. Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report.

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Compared to children at a traditional school, students at Hellerup have a tremendous amount of freedom in how they work. Like traditional schools, Hellerup’s student body is divvied up into grades; students are assessed based on projects, portfolios, and standardized tests; and teachers follow the national curriculum.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Related: A study finds promise in project-based learning for young low-income children. Then everyone was tested at the end of the exercise to see how much they learned. Learning gains were measured by comparing before and after tests. “Instructions are really important,” said Tenenbaum.

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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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Digital Promise

MAY 28, 2020

With the continuous rush of a traditional school day, many times those opportunities fall by the wayside. Similarly, educators are able to create more project-based learning opportunities for students that encourage creativity in the way students share and display their learning and comprehension.

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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

JUNE 13, 2019

Some of those things can be more engaging than your traditional, boring dashboard, but at the end of the day, I want to do my Instagram on Instagram.”. He has gone on to create a platform called Be Anything to support project-based learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

The day I first visited The James Baldwin School , I met Nia, a confident young woman whose path to a high school diploma was not what we might call “traditional.” In fact, her attachment is so strong that she still drops by all the time, even though she graduated a few years ago.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 12, 2016

More recently, Van Meter has been diving deeply into project-based learning, standards-based grading, competency-based education, and flexible, modular schedules in which students can exercise some choice and determine how much time they need to spend on their various learning endeavors. Real projects.

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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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