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| Project-based learning is a dynamic teaching approach that actively engages students in learning through real-world projects relevant to their lives and experiences. In these videos from Edutopia, education experts explore what the science of learning and development tells us about project-based learning.
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| The How Learning Happens video series, created by Edutopia and featuring LPI President and CEO Linda Darling-Hammond and Pamela Cantor, MD, founder and senior science advisor of Turnaround for Children, explores how educators can integrate social, emotional, and academic skills to support and guide diverse learners.
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| How can schools and districts support and enable deeper learning instruction? In these videos, representatives from Big Picture Learning, the New Tech Network, and the Internationals Network, as well as educators from their partner schools and districts, share their strategies for advancing deeper learning in every classroom and for every student.
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Blog: Keeping Students at the Center With Culturally Relevant Performance Assessments
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| In the Oakland Unified School District, a yearlong Graduate Capstone Project provides an opportunity for students to research, analyze, and become experts in a topic of their own choosing. LPI’s video shows how this complex project, which is used as a districtwide performance assessment, is building students’ ownership of their own learning and helping them develop and use critical thinking and communication skills.
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Video Series: Reflections on Oakland’s Graduate Capstone Project
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| Oakland students, teachers, and school and district administrators reflect on the district’s Graduate Capstone Project and its impact on teaching and learning. This rigorous, yearlong performance assessment culminates with a research paper and a formal presentation before teachers, school staff, and members of the community.