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Progressive Education

General reflections on the practice of progressive pedagogy.
        
            Progressive Education
        
    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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            Progressive Education
        
    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
    
            Progressive Education
        
    Gradeless: An English Teacher’s Journey Towards Agency Through Feedback
            I knew I wanted to do my best to represent student growth in the most accurate way I possibly could. While I know my methods are far from perfect, I have seen remarkable growth and a complete shift in focus in my students.
        
Theresa Walter

    19 Mar 2021
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    5 min read
    
            Progressive Education
        
    Learning from Games: Making Decisions for Others
            Even the most well-intentioned changes can have horrific outcomes.
        
Chris McNutt

    12 Mar 2021
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    5 min read
    
            Progressive Education
        
    Liberatory Learning: Dismantling the Hidden Curriculum
            This is a recap of our asynchronous professional development session, where we worked as a cohort to develop actions and solutions for equitable practices in our classrooms.
        
Chris McNutt, Nick Covington

    11 Aug 2020
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    7 min read
    
            Progressive Education
        
    Creating a Virtual, Liberatory Feedback-Driven Classroom
            This past week, Human Restoration Project has had the honor of presenting this workshop on ungrading and liberatory pedagogy at Digital Pedagogy Lab 2020. Here's an overview of the activities we covered, what we learned, and resources to share!
        
Chris McNutt, Nick Covington

    31 Jul 2020
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    11 min read
    
            Progressive Education
        
    Universal Design for Fishing
            No analogy is perfect, but I think we can use fishing as an example of an experience where the philosophy of universal design, combined with the support of experienced and conscientious adults, can help us develop a classroom learning experience that achieves the goal of UDL.
        
Nick Covington

    15 Jul 2020
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    11 min read
    
            Progressive Education
        
    The Runaway Bunny-Allegory for Ego
            I am going to spend the remainder of this (whatever this is) post on a different level of analysis: deconstructing the ego and why it’s so important in our work as progressive educators
        
Brennan Dignan

    8 May 2020
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            Progressive Education
        
    What do you value in your space and how do values guide your practice?
            What I have found in most cases is that the smaller, less funded spaces seem to be more value driven, purposeful and goal oriented, while many of the larger, well funded spaces seem to just be a showroom floor of the best technologies and equipment.
        
Mark Barnett

    19 Apr 2020
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    5 min read
    
            Progressive Education
        
    What’s in a grade? GRExit, GPA, College Admissions, and the Mastery Transcript (oh my!)
            In this article I’ll look at the movement of undergrad and graduate programs away from standardized assessments, unpack new research into our assumptions about standardized test scores as predictors of college completion, and challenge listeners to re-rethink “What’s in a grade?”
        
Nick Covington

    4 Mar 2020
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    10 min read
    
            Progressive Education
        
    As They Say in Arkansas
            Deeply embedded and out of site, it operates in the shadows pointing its big fat finger at the student. I would express it somewhat imperfectly like this: the system is fine, deal with it.
        
Brennan Dignan

    30 Oct 2019
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    5 min read
    
            Progressive Education
        
    Game Design, Classroom Design, and the Faux Use of Gamification
            “Gamification” is a popular buzzword — whether it be corporations wanting users to excitedly spend money or educators motivating students through extrinsic rewards. Consistently, well-meaning educators are seeking gamification to encourage students to meet their standards.
        
Chris McNutt

    21 Sep 2019
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    9 min read
    
            Progressive Education
        
    Starting off Right: Writing a Pro-Student Syllabus
            The words we use to structure our syllabus can have a lasting first impact on how students view our class. Intentionally or not, the verbiage and wording of our attitude toward students is reflected in our writing.
        
Chris McNutt

    28 Jul 2019
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    10 min read
    
            Progressive Education
        
    “You Do Not Have to Be Good”: De-emphasizing Product in Arts Education
            Arts educators can have a vital role in building a more humane, joyous, peaceful, equitable, democratic society.
        
Timothy Fawkes

    19 Jun 2019
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    6 min read
    
            Progressive Education
        
    Put Your Best Foot Forward
            This year I challenged my sophomore AP Euro students as we headed into the final weeks of class: Put your best foot forward.
        
Nick Covington

    31 May 2019
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    6 min read
    
            Progressive Education
        
    The Secret to Surviving Teacher Burnout: A framework shift, not productivity tips and tricks
            I sometimes feel guilty when others complain about their workload: taking home a plethora of papers each night, writing letters home to 100+ parents, and making absurdly detailed lesson plans.
        
Chris McNutt

    23 May 2019
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    10 min read
    
            Progressive Education
        
    A Playground Should Have A Pulse
            What do you think of when you hear the word play? I associate it with joy, innocence, freedom and flow. I picture my littles hard at play exploring, experimenting, falling, and learning. Play makes me smile, shoot nervous glances at my wife, and at times, gasp.
        
Abe Moore

    4 May 2019
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    9 min read
    
            Progressive Education
        
    I use evidence to inform my teaching.
            There’s hundreds, perhaps thousands, of articles promoting progressive education. Research among child development psychologists overwhelming favors student choice and voice and experiential learning.
        
Chris McNutt

    12 Mar 2019
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    9 min read
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