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What San Diego High School Faculty Learned After a Year of Personalized Learning

Michael Elsen-Rooney

August 08, 2018 |

Pacific Standard |

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Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

A year after a San Diego high school was awarded $10 million to scale a successful personalized learning pilot model, administrators and teachers have seen improving attendance rates and certain academic positives and they have some takeaways to share. Changes run the gamut -- from furniture adjustments to the restructuring of students into smaller communities of houses to the addition of wellness courses. And from these, teachers emphasize two important characteristics essential to the success of personalized learning -- gradual implementation of changes and the right balance of technology.

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Online learning can open doors for kids in juvenile jails

Tara Garcia Mathewson

August 02, 2018 |

The Hechinger Report |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

The Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice sets itself apart by offering a blended learning curriculum to students. The district's superintendent sees immense benefits to the split schedule and online learning component - “The self-paced schedule has made a huge difference in the number of kids obtaining credits." Other players are more skeptical.

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In a state troubled by suicide, teens learn mental health skills

Melody Martinsen

July 24, 2018 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States, Montana

Making space for mental health awareness in school curricula aids in suicide prevention among teens. Schools in rural Montana have begun to adopt the Youth Aware of Mental Health program (YAM), which originated in Sweden. An initiative at the Center for Mental Health Research and Recovery at Montana State University succeeding in developing the pilot program, launched in 2018. The ongoing classes serve as a safe space for discussion and student-driven activities, using role-play scenarios and teaching students how to look out for signs of mental illness and reach out for help.

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Girls-Only Trade Classes Are Becoming More Popular—and They're Upending Gender Stereotypes

Brenda Iaesvoli

July 20, 2018 |

Pacific Standard |

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Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

Schools across the U.S. have started offering girls-only auto trade classes as a way to encourage more females to participate in the often male-dominated vocational courses. Brenda Iasevoli writes "Shop class, it seems, is a new path to female empowerment." The classes also help to address the shortage of skilled workers in the auto repair, construction, and welding industries.

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Teenagers get involved in suicide prevention

Karen Peterson

July 12, 2018 |

Valley Journal |

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Response Location: United States, Arlee, Montana

Suicide is the second leading cause of death for adolescents in Montana. The Arlee Warriors, a high school basketball team, and a group of students at St. Ignatius High School, are initiating conversations to de-stigmatize mental health issues and make their schools a safe space for their peers to seek help.

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Sonic youth: the UK school turning teenagers' lives around

Emma John

June 21, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: England, Swanley

SupaJam, a music school in England, targets kids aged 16-18 who are not in school or employed for a range of reasons. By the time students graduate, 97 percent leave with a nationally recognized business diploma. “These kids are too young to abandon," one of the cofounders says. “This is our society and we have to fight for them."

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Highland Students Find Guidance, Resilience In Chicano Studies

Hannah Colton

June 13, 2018 |

KUNM |

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Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

In 2014, Tucson schools found that performance and graduation rates improved dramatically when students completed classes in Mexican-American studies - the achievement gap closed within a matter of a few years. Now, a teacher in New Mexico is trying to replicate Arizona's success with a Chicano Studies class that takes students' through history and the reality of racism in their own lives.

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A Rare Look Inside One of the Only High Schools at an Adult Jail

Eli Hager

June 08, 2018 |

The Marshall Project |

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Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

A new high school inside the New Orleans jail gives juvenile detainees the opportunity to earn credits toward graduation, not just a GED, and possibly find a different future. It's showing promise, with three people earning diplomas so far and more passing state exams in English and math. But the challenges are many because students are in a violent jail awaiting adjudication that could mean many more years behind bars.

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For anxious students, a teacher who comes to your house might be the answer

Robbie Feinberg

June 04, 2018 |

The Hechinger Report |

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Response Location: United States, Farmington, Maine

To serve students who have dropped out of high school for anxiety-related reasons such as bullying or unstable home circumstances, a program in central Maine is sending teachers to students' homes with personalized lessons. The rest of the week, students complete online assignments to make up for lost in-class time. The home-schooling model has its critics and faults, but instructors believe the targeted curriculum will be worth it over the long term.

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School resource officer persists in changing student's perception of police

Theresa Cottom

May 26, 2018 |

Akron Beacon Journal |

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Response Location: United States, Akron, Ohio

A school resource officer in Ohio decided to persist with one specific student who distrusted police and deliberately avoided talking to them. Over the course of four years, the officer persisted in efforts to reach the young man and gradually the two built a relationship of mutual respect. That has changed both of their outlooks regarding how to address racial tensions between police and the black community.

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