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Curious About Place-Based Education? Let the STAR School Be Your Guide

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The school is completely “off the grid,” powered by solar panels and wind generators. There’s a campus greenhouse that provides students with locally grown vegetables and the opportunity to garden. But across the country, schools of all kinds have been adopting the model to improve student engagement and, by extension, student success.

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10 Ways to Make School Fun Again

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Real School Example One middle school teacher at K12 Schools designed a Grammar Quest for English class. Students solved interactive grammar puzzles that unlocked the next chapter of a short story. When given the space, students can be the most imaginative curriculum designers in the room.

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The project-based STEM curriculum that’s big on real-world rigor

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The curriculum has a strong engineering component, as well as separate units in biomedical science and computer science. It’s a great, great program,” said Emma Haygood, a middle school science teacher for 16 years who moved to the Berrien Springs district office last year to become STEM coordinator. “We They were so engrossed.

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

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They had already begun a process of designing a new middle school, called Nexus Middle School, to be a STEM-based school that incorporated personalized learning. And a lot of their focus was on making sure that they listened to their students, teachers, families and their community in an authentic way.

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