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The Launch High School
About Also known as Launch Expeditionary Learning Charter School. The school emphasizes a project-based learning model that integrates teamwork, field trips, and social action. Launch School at Floyd Bennett Field, located in Brooklyn, New York, is a dynamic and innovative high school designed to engage students in hands-on, real-world learning.
Palo Alto High School
About Palo Alto Unified School District. Palo Alto High School, engages 600 students each day in media arts programs such as photography, video production, audio music production, and multi-platform journalism (radio/podcast, television, print, web and social media). Students lead a half a dozen world class publications in what is widely…
Red Bridge Education
About A mastery-based K-8 school in San Francisco. The mission is to develop a sense of agency in every child as the foundation for academic and life success. Students participate in extended project-based learning experiences three times each year. Red Bridge, established in 2020, is a K-8 school dedicated to…
EPiC Elementary School
About A project-based school serving 300 learners in the renovated district office. EPiC features double classrooms and partner teaching. Many of these studios have big roll-up doors and share common space and quiet small group rooms. EPiC Elementary School, located in Liberty, Missouri, is dedicated to fostering an entrepreneurial mindset…
High School for Recording Arts
About A public school in St. Paul, pioneered the concept of connecting with at-risk students through music and related businesses. It helps young people develop agency and change-making skills to tackle real-world problems. For the full backstory, see Hip Hop Genius : Remixing High School Education by Sam Seidel (at…
Exploration High School
About Exploration High, a new charter school, is “led by students, powered by teachers, and rooted in community” and believes in “co-creating a diverse, equitable school – by, for, and with the community – where students have a voice in their learning and community”. Students learn through Community Asset Projects…
Minnesota New Country School
About Opened a teacher-powered learner-centered secondary school west of Minneapolis in 1994 with the goal of leveraging the power of purposeful relationships, community, student-led project-based learning, and experiential education. An elementary school was added in 2013. MNCS spurred development of the Edvisions network of small teacher-led schools featuring self-directed project-based…
The Morgan Oliver School
About Also known as The Morgan Oliver School for Anti-Racism, is a private microschool located in Atlanta, Georgia. It focuses on providing a progressive and inclusive educational experience for elementary students. The Morgan Oliver School, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is an independent, project-based middle school serving students in grades 5…
Art in Motion
About Founded in 2019 as a part of the Distinctive Schools charter network, and backed by rap artist Common, Art in Motion seeks to empower the creative in each child to “provide the resources and opportunities needed for [their] dreams to take flight. Through real-world projects, self-directed learning and small…
Building 21
About Operates public high schools in Philadelphia and Allentown and has 44 network affiliate schools. The personalized learning model (below) features problem-based learning, real work experiences, and competency-based assessments. Building 21 is a network of innovative public high schools that reimagines education through personalized, competency-based learning. With campuses in Philadelphia,…