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A teacher points at a projection on a classroom whiteboard while students engage in deeper learning at their desks; the scene is viewed through a glass wall decorated with paper drawings.

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Why Deeper Learning Needs Continuous Improvement

Edwards Deming, a founder of continuous improvement methods, once brutally summarized the field of education as “miracle goals and no methods.” Having spent the past 30 years trying to spread deeper learning to more students more often, I recognize myself in this sentence.
A group of young people stand around a table, focused on a sewing project. Scissors and sewing materials are spread out as they work together, learning new techniques during this creative lesson with fabric and thread.

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A Project is a Type of Unit, Not a Lesson

There are two different questions I often hear from visitors to High Tech High that are both based on the same misconception about project-based learning.  The first is, “How much time should we be spending on PBL per week?” And the second is, “Is it still OK to give lectures?” The answer to both of these questions lies in the understanding that a project isn’t a specific kind of lesson, but rather a specific kind of unit.
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