k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

In the rolling hills of Southwestern Pennsylvania, nestled among 350 acres of natural beauty, lies The Kiski School , a place where tradition meets transformation. And in September 2024, history took a bold turn as Kiski welcomed young women into its ranks and opened a new chapter in its storied legacy.

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Schools History Art Culture 242

Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2021

To facilitate more authentic learning, many states have aligned their own standards, and developed frameworks that foster interdisciplinary teaching and learning. While content standards are generally written across grades K-12, career education is typically considered only a high school endeavor. CTE Gets a Bad Rap All U.S.

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Interdisciplinary History Motivation High School 199

eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

As defined and codified by Education Reimagined , this learner-centered educational design is gaining traction within communities as an emerging alternative to conventional schooling. Consider two public school examples that demonstrate how to create new educational designs aligned with these values.

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Education Internet Interdisciplinary Testing 300

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

History class, approached me after the White House threatened to revoke temporary protected status (TPS) for immigrants from El Salvador. Shortly after graduation, Sheliya received a full-time job offer based on her efforts in this service-learning project — not a bad outcome for a high school service-learning project.

Learning 209

Learning Local Government History Coaching 209

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Those are some of the emotions Mario Herrera’s high school students experienced as they learned about the African diaspora, as part of a two-year pilot for the College Board’s new curriculum on the subject. The complexities of the Diaspora are an excellent fit with AP Seminar’s interdisciplinary research focus. Frustrated.

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Interdisciplinary Art History Culture 187

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Today, the award-winning science series NOVA , produced for PBS by GBH Boston, announced the launch of NOVA Science Studio , a new national program to teach and engage young people through an interdisciplinary curriculum focused on science communication, digital media literacy, and video production.

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Science Communication Interdisciplinary STEM 262

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. The educators were state winners of the Teacher of the Year program , hosted annually by the Council of Chief State School Officers. They taught Welch that history is made up of “little moments” in people’s lives.

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Teachers Education History Science 212

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

No longer confined to a corner space in the back of the library, Making activities are finding their way into lessons on history and biology, literature and language. No longer confined to a corner space in the back of the library, Making activities are finding their way into lessons on history and biology, literature and language.

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Interdisciplinary History Learning Language 155

Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2019

Carlin was explaining how to make history relevant to all students, whether it's the history of hip-hop music, the evolution of the coffee industry or a person you pass on the street. What stayed with me that day: everything and everyone has a history—but history doesn't matter to students if it's not relevant to their own lives.

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History Teachers Students Interdisciplinary 159

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I was a certified high school math teacher, but like so many of my peers, I also taught advisory—working with students to develop their social skills and help them explore college and career options. Life is interdisciplinary, and while our education system has finally started to acknowledge this (e.g. Or anything else.”

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Teaching Interdisciplinary Math Essay 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We also found in our analysis that it was especially effective when it was coupled with efforts within high schools to demonstrate voting, to have a registration drive,” Hillygus says. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying voter behavior. We used to spend a lot more school time on civic education.

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Motivation Education Participation Interdisciplinary 190

Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 7, 2025

The high school years are all about new experiences, self-reflection, and building skills to use throughout life. Well-crafted journal prompts for high schoolers accomplish all of these goals and they arent just for English class! What was the best thing that happened today? What about the worst? 3a, 3d, 3e; W.9-10.10,

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High School High School Schools Art 52

Edsurge

JULY 6, 2016

The linear, factory system of education is counter to the messy, irregular, and creative learning process that our students have grown accustomed to outside of school. We are in the midst of one of the most disruptive, yet exciting times in history: The Information Age. Life is irregular—thus, learning is irregular.

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Interdisciplinary Learning Schools History 113

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

However, many high school classrooms still use outdated college and career preparation models, which can leave high school graduates feeling unprepared for their future. This highlights the increasing need for high schools to incorporate career-connected learning.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 333

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

They’re all adults enrolled in the university’s online Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program. At the all-girls boarding high school that Ruth Cady attended in a small Virginia town, she recalls being a middling student. That they devote days, years, lifetimes to understanding a sliver of biology, physics, history.

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Students Art Essay Interdisciplinary 176

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Holzweiss , a high school educational technology enrichment specialist librarian, shared her tips to help school librarians engage with students, support teachers , and make their school libraries dynamic and welcoming learning spaces. During an ISTELive session , Kristina A. As the U.S.

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Schools Language Languages Reading 246

Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2023

Choose an interdisciplinary topic for broader appeal Freshmen often have not yet decided what their major would be, nor should they! Our class, “Banned Books and School Policy,” related to education, of course, but also touched on sociology, political science, history, English literature, religion, and public policy.

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Critical Thinking Interdisciplinary Syllabus History 76

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

Heather Messer , a teacher and advisor at a Wisconsin school where competency-based learning is a school-wide practice. Beth Blankenship , an English teacher who has figured out how to use competency-based learning at her Virginia high school, a school that still uses traditional grading.

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Learning Knowledge Grades Feedback 75

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a Friday morning in March, students and teachers gathered at a hip hotel here to reimagine what their high schools could be. The delegation from Calvin Coolidge High School was thinking big — as in, global. Yet measuring whether a redesigned high school is working as intended, and why, is difficult to do.

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High School High School Schools Assignments 184

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

He tells me about his journey into the movement, how he drew himself out and how the experience shaped what he is doing now, after graduating high school. I took my gun out of my holster and shot until I couldn’t shoot” Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School (FLHF) is a portfolio curriculum school located in Bronx, N.Y.,

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Beliefs Learning Students Interdisciplinary 148

Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

For instance, in a history course, an informal writing prompt might ask students to select the most significant event in a unit on the Civil Rights Movement and justify their choice. In a biology course, students might write a brief explanation of DNA replication as if they were explaining it to a high school student.

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Writing Reading Assignments Disciplinary Thinking 120

Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

For instance, in a history course, an informal writing prompt might ask students to select the most significant event in a unit on the Civil Rights Movement and justify their choice. In a biology course, students might write a brief explanation of DNA replication as if they were explaining it to a high school student.

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Writing Reading Assignments Disciplinary Thinking 104