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Progressive Education

General reflections on the practice of progressive pedagogy.

        
            Progressive Education
        
    Designing Possibility in Schools
            The default culture within most schools today is more transactional than transformational and dehumanizing in that students and teachers do not have the space where they can be successful without sacrificing some part of their identities.
        
Paul Kim

    22 Sep 2022
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    5 min read
    
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    Play's Power
            There is nothing more human than play.
        
Aaron Skjerseth

    6 Sep 2022
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    4 min read
    
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    How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Ungrading
            A veteran teacher reflects on moving towards a democratic classroom-- with surprising results
        
Joelle Lamboley Ostrich

    23 Jul 2022
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    Translanguaging as a humanizing pedagogy
            Elif Shafak writes about the need to ‘tell different stories to humanize the other’; let’s tell different stories that humanize our multilingual learners as we ‘create radically human-centered classrooms’.
        
Jacob Huckle

    20 Jul 2022
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    12 min read
    
            Organizational
        
    Conference to Restore Humanity: The Need
            It's past time to demand a conference model that is accessible, sustainable, and representative of the communities we serve.
        
Nick Covington, Chris McNutt

    21 May 2022
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    3 min read
    
            Progressive Education
        
    On Constructionism, Makerspaces, and Music Education
            Burton Hable imagines the role of makerspaces supported by constructionist pedagogy in music education as a way to expand and enrich the standard model for students.
        
Burton Hable

    20 May 2022
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    12 min read
    
            Organizational
        
    What we're working on: Human-Centered Interdisciplinary Subject
            Our goal is to answer the question: how can we prepare learners for a world that needs them to enact change?
        
Chris McNutt, Nick Covington

    18 May 2022
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    7 min read
    
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    Enacting Change by Listening
            Pressing forward and armed with this knowledge, we need to bring about a grassroots movement toward change.
        
Chris McNutt

    3 May 2022
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    3 min read
    
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    Beyond Testing: Human Centered Approaches to Assessment
            Who are the decision makers in our classrooms and where do they come from?
        
Lisa Wennerth

    6 Mar 2022
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    5 min read
    
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    A Day in the Life at Three Schools
            When we work together, what classrooms will we create?
        
Chris McNutt

    4 Feb 2022
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    16 min read
    
            Progressive Education
        
    Class Discussions and Classroom Climate
            It might seem counterintuitive to be thinking about classroom climate now. It is around this time that we begin to increase the amount of assessments we assign, as students are asked to grapple more deeply with course inquiries, essential questions, content skills, and unit concepts.
        
Lisa Wennerth

    24 Nov 2021
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    5 min read
    
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    Building Community and Trust In A Gradeless Classroom
            Investment in relationships supports student voice and agency while fostering trust.
        
Theresa Walter

    20 Oct 2021
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    5 min read
    
            Progressive Education
        
    Home Free
            Too much school at home, too much work from home, and not enough school in school. Let’s reestablish some boundaries.
        
Peter Sipe

    17 Oct 2021
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    3 min read
    
            Progressive Education
        
    Going Gradeless This Year? Just Thinking About It? Start Here.
            Try these 3 strategies to get gradeless assessment practices going in your classes.
        
Theresa Walter

    5 Aug 2021
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    6 min read
    
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    The Surprise Growth in an Ungrading Practice: My Own
            I found more growth in my own practice than I ever anticipated in my first full year of abandoning traditional grading systems.
        
Theresa Walter

    5 Aug 2021
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    A Primer for the Progressive Educator
            To be a progressive educator is to never really leave behind that restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.
        
Sean Michael Morris

    3 Aug 2021
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    13 min read
    
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    Binary Solutions to Systemic Problems
            This year has highlighted that there is a continual issue with equity in education; and that there’s a serious problem with the way schooling in general is tackling the issues we face today.
        
Chris McNutt

    28 May 2021
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    12 min read
    
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    100 Days of Conversations: Amplifying Communities to Reimagine Education
            In our pilot, we explored a reimagination of this project as a result of the pandemic, while simultaneously recognizing that the American education system was already in need of change.
        
Chris McNutt

    14 May 2021
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    4 min read

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