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To Connect Classes to Careers, Consider Erasing Grade Levels

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Back in the early 1900s, John Dewey promoted the “learning by doing” approach to education, which would later become the foundation of project-based learning (PBL). Some of these topics include agriculture, communication and information studies, human services, and health science.

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Project-Based Learning Is Just the Beginning

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Each grade has a designated career cluster they focus on, and as students move through the grades, they explore a wide variety of career opportunities. In addition, we are one of 10 high school districts in Illinois that has started to move to competency-based learning.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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The NEO mobile app for Windows allows users to access the full feature set within the platform including creating and delivering online classes, assessing students, sharing resources, tracking student achievement, and collaborating on projects. Each pathway has required modules, and several elective modules to enable personalization.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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