Project-Based Learning
(PBL) is an instructional approach where traditional, direct classroom instruction and tests are replaced by authentic, often interdisciplinary projects, usually designed by the student with guidance from instructors/coaches, addressing real-world problems as the assessment instead of a test. It also is closely related to deeper learning, challenge-based learning, interest-based learning and more.
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Deeper Learning for Every Student Every Day
A Getting Smart white paper dedicated to dispelling the myths around Deeper Learning and showing it can happen anywhere, with every student and every teacher.
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New Paper: Deeper Learning For Every Student Every Day
Last month we launched a preview of our new white paper, “Deeper Learning For Every Student Every Day,” and today we’ve launched the full paper including all 20 of our Deeper Learning school profiles.
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Deeper Learning For Every Student Every Day, Released!
Published today, Deeper Learning for Every Student Every Day is dedicated to dispelling the myths around Deeper Learning and proving that it can happen in any school, with all students, and every teacher.
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Deeper Learning: For Every Student Every Day
As a preview to the paper, we’ve released the Executive Summary which offers a map of profiled school locations, a deeper dive into the six Deeper Learning competencies and ten practices that promote Deeper Learning. For more on Deeper Learning make sure to check out the infographic released this fall that complements the paper’s themes.
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Preview the Deeper Learning MOOC Now
A growth mindset is an absolute necessary ingredient for Deeper Learning. This discussion has just heightened our appetite for everything there is to master by participating in the full Deeper Learning MOOC.
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Common Choice: Thin Test Prep or Deeper Learning
Higher expectations and engaging learning experiences are compatible. New college and career ready expectations will yield better preparation for American students if education leaders value deeper learning rather than resorting to stifling test prep.
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High Tech High: Student Engagement Leads to Deeper Learning
I've been there at lease a dozen times but I'm always floored by the student artwork. Here are two students expanding on a SketchPad art they produced to illustrate how genetic switches (contributed by parents on either side) influence our life.
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Infographic: Deeper Learning
While the schools may look different from the outside, they most definitely share a common purpose—to give ALL students the opportunity to learn in a Deeper Learning environment. And the schools are...
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Deeper Learning in High Need Schools
Many of the schools we studied this summer serve high challenge low income communities. They share six characteristics that appear to support the success of low-income students.
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Leading for Deeper Learning: 10 Proven Strategies
The majority of schools we studied were purpose built and more than half belong to school development networks committed to deeper learning--two big advantages for leaders seeking to consistently challenge and engage students in meaningful work.