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From Personalized Math to Micro-Schools, This NewSchools Cohort Is Reimagining Learning

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The ten teams met once each in San Francisco, Austin, and New York City and also worked with Collaborative staff and consultants locally over the course of the 2016-17 school year. Today, NewSchools and Transcend released a case study that looks at the first Collaborative. At the end of the program, each had a plan of action.

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The Classroom or Library as a Maker Space

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Makerspaces, Maker Education, STEM, and STEAM are gaining lots of traction in Kindergarten though college level education. As Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame noted in his 2016 Bay Area Maker Faire talk: What is making? We solve problems, both personal and societal ( Adam Savage’s 2016 Bay Area Maker Faire Talk ).

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Text Choice Helped Boost This District’s Literacy Success—and Empower Students

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Lindsay Unified School District Case Study. After testing it at the high school level, we implemented Reading Plus district-wide in 2016. Our coordinator of research and evaluation crunched all the data and he found that a learner in Lindsay who did 80 or more daily reading exercises moved more than a grade level in a year.