High school
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The Role Of Advisory In Personalizing The Secondary Experience
High school can be a confusing time with increasing options for students due to the rapid expansion of digital learning. Advisory has to be the spine of the next generation high school. Sustained adult relationships can help students navigate this new digital landscape.
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Startup Students: A Look At How Teachers Can Invest In GenDIY
By: Eric Nentrup. What GenDIY needs is more supportive teachers who see themselves as business mentors and “angel investors” who may not be able to invest dollars, but can network and carve out time or space for students to work on these authentic projects now instead of later.
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Reinventing A Secondary Program From The Ground Up
By: Melissa Strong. For those educators who ponder “What if I were to teach this concept, this unit, or this subject completely differently?” Melissa shares her story and strategy of reinventing the foreign language program at Harvard-Westlake School in LA.
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Students Ask Big Questions At Science Leadership Academy
Science Leadership Academy (SLA) in Philadelphia is transforming the opportunity set for 500 urban students with an inquiry-based approach. SLA students are asked to consider, "How do we learn?" "What can we create?" "What does it mean to lead?"
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What Should High School Graduates Know And Be Able To Do?
Students and community members deserve a more compelling and complete set of goals and metrics. It remains challenging to describe the aims and measures of a rigorous well-rounded education. Here are some examples of schools and districts setting the bar beyond basic reading, writing, and math.
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Bringing 21st Century Skills Into High Schools
By 2020, connected devices are projected to outnumber connected people six to one. But, with great access comes great responsibility, and Learning.com's Project NextTech can help develop those needed 21st Century skills.
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Building Student-Centered High School Math Classrooms
Student-centered learning provides huge promise for a shift in the way that students engage with math — both academically and emotionally. Here we look at recent research to support the idea that a personalized approach to mathematics increases student understanding and happiness.
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100 Schools Worth Visiting
Based on a couple thousand school visits and with help from colleagues and readers, we’ve compiled a list of 100 schools worth visiting.
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Blended Learning Demands Big Open Spaces
My neighborhood high school is a 50-year-old spider web of additions crammed on to a downtown lot it shares with the district kitchen and stadium. It has little street appeal, no connection with the natural world, and is an energy hog. Like many high schools, the primary architectural features include rows of classrooms off narrow hallways, a cafeteria, and a main office.
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Better than Prep: Experiencing Success In What’s Next
Ten experiences high school students should leave the secondary system with so they are able to plan next steps with knowledge and confidence.