Sentences with phrase «deep civic learning»

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Game - based learning scholar Kurt Squire explores how leveraging young people's interest in gaming could encourage greater youth community involvement and deeper connections to civic and political life.

In this brief, the Gardner Center uses the work of the CORE Districts as a case study to explore deeper learning and its importance to educational equity and the goal of college and career and civic readiness for all public school youth.

Good principals know the importance of providing opportunities for students to reach greater levels of learning, or «deeper learning» — an umbrella term for the skills and knowledge that students must have to succeed in 21st century jobs and civic life.

PALO ALTO, CA — As states, districts, and schools are expanding instruction to include the competencies associated with college, career, and civic readiness, they are also developing ways to measure mastery of these deeper learning and higher - order thinking skills.

«Maker - centered learning supports a deeper conceptual understanding, so we really appreciate the power of maker - centered learning and hands - on learning when it comes to understanding mathematical ideas, or a scientific idea, or understanding civics and how the world around us works.»

Students and teachers comment that the deep learning students engage in during these projects impacts their academic skills as well as their perspectives on civic engagement and their future lives.

Ultimately, the goal is for this state - endorsed demonstration pilot to inform the development of a new set of high school graduation measures that provide schools and districts with flexibility in how their students demonstrate their mastery of deeper learning competencies and readiness for postsecondary college, career and civic life.

Deeper learning strategies facilitate the development of students» collaboration, critical thinking, creative problem - solving and civic skills that are not typically addressed through traditional instructional practices.

Pedro Noguera was a presenter on LPI's inaugural webinar in the series Achieving Equity Through Deeper Learning, which addressed ways schools and school districts can improve academic achievement, particularly among students who are farthest from opportunity, through engaging students in learning that focuses on meaningful mastery of subjects, critical thinking, problem - solving, collaboration and other skills necessary for college, career, and civic participation in the 21st Learning, which addressed ways schools and school districts can improve academic achievement, particularly among students who are farthest from opportunity, through engaging students in learning that focuses on meaningful mastery of subjects, critical thinking, problem - solving, collaboration and other skills necessary for college, career, and civic participation in the 21st learning that focuses on meaningful mastery of subjects, critical thinking, problem - solving, collaboration and other skills necessary for college, career, and civic participation in the 21st Century.

e3 Civic High (CA) This district - and community - supported early college high school, located in San Diego's new downtown public library, has an intentional civics, service, and internship focus aimed at developing deeper learning, ownership, and inquiry - based thinking skills.