What is Project-Based Learning?
*As part of our ongoing work to #ReThinkHighSchool, we created a series of long-form posts that seek to exp...
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Remote Learning Ideas: How to Start a Podcast
Right now, the entire planet is coming to terms with a world that seemed impossible a few short months ago....
I CAN DO THAT: How to Start a Career in Poetry
When it comes to learning at XQ, we always ask the following questions: Does it engage students in a way th...
Students Share What It’s Like to Learn in an Innovative High School
XQ schools and partnerships exist in big cities and small towns, in urban areas and rural regions, from coa...
What is Project-Based Learning?
*As part of our ongoing work to #ReThinkHighSchool, we created a series of long-form posts that seek to exp...
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Remote Learning Ideas: How to Start a Podcast
Right now, the entire planet is coming to terms with a world that seemed impossible a few short months ago....
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I CAN DO THAT: How to Start a Career in Poetry
When it comes to learning at XQ, we always ask the following questions: Does it engage students in a way th...
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Students Share What It’s Like to Learn in an Innovative High School
XQ schools and partnerships exist in big cities and small towns, in urban areas and rural regions, from coa...
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The Transformative Magic of “Doing” Learning, Instead of “Receiving” Learning
Xunzi was a Confucian philosopher and teacher who said: “Not hearing is not as good as hearing, h...
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Computer Science Through a Lens of Equity & Social Justice
For Tamia Murphy, computer science isn’t just about typing endless strings of code and hitting ‘run.’...
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How School Exchanges Can Help Break Down Cultural and Educational Barriers
The United States covers more than 3.7 million square miles. It’s a vast country populated by communities...
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How To Create Interdisciplinary Projects
It’s not hard to see that the subjects students of all ages study are often interconnected. Literature is...
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From the school board to the governor: Tips on how schools can engage with elected officials
As part of XQ’s ongoing “How-To” series, here are some tips from experts at XQ on how school leaders,...
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From Stonewall to the classroom: Tips for teaching LGBTQ+ history
Photo from The AtlanticWhen New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, one of the city’s prominent ga...
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How to Help Students Start Their Own Podcasts
Podcasts. They’re kind of everywhere right now. And why not? They’re easily accessible, often entertain...
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Taking it to the streets in Cedar Rapids
Iowa BIG students combine street art with the Berlin Wall project to bring the Cold War to life. A mysterio...
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When School Belongs to the Students
When the School Belongs to the Students One of the four operational principles at PSI High is “PSI High b...
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Is Design Thinking The Key to Workforce Development?
How do you position an entire city to lead the way in STEM-related fields of the future? According to the t...
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The awesome way one school is helping students broadcast messages to the world.
After the tragedy of Michael Brown, kids everywhere were eager to have their opinions on the subject heard....
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These High School Students Are Learning From Local Businesses Instead Of Textbooks
Putting Community Engagement First Let’s face it: In high school, learning outside the classroom is a rar...
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This ‘Vertical Urban Village’ Will Change How You Think About Education
Imagine a high school that “learns” about you before you learn from it. Where you are surveyed prior to...
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The Future Of Coastal Preservation Is In The Hands Of High Schoolers
In trying to save one of the United States’ most important stretches of land from succumbing to the effec...
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What Happens When Students Decide How They Learn?
Students at Tennessee’s Elizabethton High School had goals to redesign their school. So, they entered int...
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What do young people need to learn today to be prepared for tomorrow?
We cannot anticipate the challenges today’s children will confront as grownups, nor can we conceive of th...
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The true meaning of ‘Lord of the Flies’? Ask these 10th graders
High school, for some, can seem a lot like “Lord of the Flies.” But in Stuart Easton’s 10th grade Eng...
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How a hot-dog stand is changing young people’s lives in Alabama
Sometimes a hot dog is just an afternoon snack, and sometimes it can change the course of your life. Such i...
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A school that embraces the ‘messy, personalized’ journey to competency
At Avalon, the focus is on how students learn, as much as what they learn By Derek Jensen Coordinator a...
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Rethinking What’s “Already Good”
Reflections from the 2019 Deeper Learning Conference. Editor’s note: Brennan Trent, a math teacher, a...
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Students are encouraged to fail in this brilliant business program for kids.
In these schools, if you can dream it, you really can be it. “Dream big” and “you can be anything you...
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Hope, empowerment, and saving the planet at New Harmony High
New Orleans might be the party capital of the U.S., but all that fun can leave a serious hangover for the e...
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Where the city meets the classroom: Latitude High opens in – and around – Oakland
At Oakland’s newest high school, learning is a three-dimensional endeavor. A humanities lesson, for examp...
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Beyond the Diploma
How Iowa Big alumni take project-based learning into college and career. When she was in high school, Eliza...
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