“They won’t forget what they learned in this program because it’s tied into real experiences, real building, real stuff, as opposed to reading about it,” their mother said. “They’re putting the questions out there to find solutions, and learning in the process..." Checkout today's edition of Boston Globe Media for highlights from our innovation partnership with Salem Public Schools: https://lnkd.in/gkh3p3ty Dominick Pangallo | Manny Cruz | Joan Lovely | Ed Markey for U.S. Senate | Linda P. | Seth Moulton | Maddie Khaw
WPS Institute
Education Administration Programs
Newton, MA 571 followers
Catalyzing the shift to connected, empowering, and unbounded learning
About us
The WPS Institute creates innovative programs and partnerships to transform learning. We advance models of schooling where learning thrives everywhere, in classrooms and beyond; where students and their families are empowered to shape their own educational journeys; and where entire communities contribute to the development of young people.
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http://www.wpsinstitute.org
External link for WPS Institute
- Industry
- Education Administration Programs
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Newton, MA
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- Educational
- Founded
- 2017
- Specialties
- education, innovation, professional learning, learner-centered schooling, and student engagement
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160 Herrick Rd
Newton, MA 02459, US
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“They won’t forget what they learned in this program because it’s tied into real experiences, real building, real stuff, as opposed to reading about it,” their mother said. “They’re putting the questions out there to find solutions, and learning in the process..." Checkout today's edition of Boston Globe Media for highlights from our innovation partnership with Salem Public Schools: https://lnkd.in/gkh3p3ty Dominick Pangallo | Manny Cruz | Joan Lovely | Ed Markey for U.S. Senate | Linda P. | Seth Moulton | Maddie Khaw
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A great article on the great work of our students and educators at Collins Middle School as well as our partners at WPS Institute. Studio learning (project-based, hands-on learning) is working in Salem: https://lnkd.in/esUqTcab Dominick Pangallo | Manny Cruz | Joan Lovely | Ed Markey for U.S. Senate Linda P. | Seth Moulton | Salem High School | Maddie Khaw
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Thank you Jal Mehta for sharing our work to reimagine middle school in your recent conversation with Rick Hess for Ed Week. Love this observation:”But I’m struck by the way in which this discussion [about chronic absenteeism] has completely ignored the most important and obvious question: Why don’t kids want to come to school?”
Why has all the talk of student absenteeism focused more on changing students' behaviors than reimagining schooling as a place students want to go? Rick Hess and I discuss. *** But I’m struck by the way in which this discussion has completely ignored the most important and obvious question: Why don’t kids want to come to school? The current debate seems to take as a given that the students and not the schools are the problem. We know that most academic tasks are fairly rote and that students report seeing little purpose in completing them, and we know that many students, particularly the most disengaged, have few if any deep and meaningful relationships with the adults in their buildings. But rather than take these things on, our analysis seems to focus almost exclusively on what the students and their parents need to be doing differently. If we took this perspective seriously, we would stop hectoring students. Instead, we would really think about whether we wanted to make some significant changes in our schools and we might enlist students to help us in doing so. For instance, Salem Middle School in Salem, Massachusetts, was able to reduce its absenteeism rate by more than 50 percent by convening students in a human-centered design process and using what they learned to develop a more flexible curriculum, create opportunities to learn in local communities, and design more hands-on and project-based learning. Much as the post-pandemic work conversation has led to a redesign of many workplaces to attract those skeptical of returning to the nine-to-five grind, we could view students’ slow return to school as a sign that we should redesign schools as well.
What's Behind the Explosion in Student Absenteeism? (Opinion)
edweek.org
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WPS is thrilled to announce that it has been selected, along with our innovation partner Salem Public Schools, as a Phase 1 winner in Siegel Family Endowment’s and the Walton Family Foundation’s $2.2 million #LearningLandscapes Challenge! With our proposed solution, we hope to reimagine the middle school experience in Salem, Massachusetts, and empower an integrated approach to both education and economic development. As we begin the Phase 2 accelerator, read more about our concept and what comes next: https://lnkd.in/e6PNwj-x =winner?utm_medium=social-long?utm_campaign=phase-1-winner-announcement #LearningLandcapes
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NEW BLOG by Ryan Tahmaseb up on the site -- Developing Leaders of Tomorrow: The Power of Participant-Centered Learning, featuring Alexandra Sedlovskaya, Associate Director at Harvard Business School's Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning. Alexandra will bring the school's case study methodology to students in our Summer Leadership Institute to explore what leading really means. Just three weeks left until the start of WPS' Summer Leadership Institute for high school students! We are completely booked and waitlisting students! https://lnkd.in/e3ZKxXPh
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“The obvious first step for any school or community facing an absenteeism problem is to talk to your students and parents and try to figure out what is going on before you formulate a response.” This approach is moving the needle for WPS’s innovation partners at Salem Public Schools. The district reduced chronic absenteeism by 50% in the middle school pilot, which centers student and family input. Frederick Hess Jal Mehta Education Week
Why has all the talk of student absenteeism focused more on changing students' behaviors than reimagining schooling as a place students want to go? Rick Hess and I discuss. *** But I’m struck by the way in which this discussion has completely ignored the most important and obvious question: Why don’t kids want to come to school? The current debate seems to take as a given that the students and not the schools are the problem. We know that most academic tasks are fairly rote and that students report seeing little purpose in completing them, and we know that many students, particularly the most disengaged, have few if any deep and meaningful relationships with the adults in their buildings. But rather than take these things on, our analysis seems to focus almost exclusively on what the students and their parents need to be doing differently. If we took this perspective seriously, we would stop hectoring students. Instead, we would really think about whether we wanted to make some significant changes in our schools and we might enlist students to help us in doing so. For instance, Salem Middle School in Salem, Massachusetts, was able to reduce its absenteeism rate by more than 50 percent by convening students in a human-centered design process and using what they learned to develop a more flexible curriculum, create opportunities to learn in local communities, and design more hands-on and project-based learning. Much as the post-pandemic work conversation has led to a redesign of many workplaces to attract those skeptical of returning to the nine-to-five grind, we could view students’ slow return to school as a sign that we should redesign schools as well.
What's Behind the Explosion in Student Absenteeism? (Opinion)
edweek.org
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New on the blog! #MIT #Makerspace #WPS
Excited to be working with MIT Edgerton Center this summer to help students in our Summer Leadership Institute incubate their ideas for engineering change across Greater Boston. Diane Brancazio and Justin Schmidt are incredibly talented partners in this work! Thanks Ryan Tahmaseb for another fabulous blog that captures perfectly why it takes a village to transform education! https://lnkd.in/eHWa2UPQ
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Thank you to all the leaders and friends joined us last Friday at Collins Middle School to witness firsthand how WPS Institute and Salem Public Schools are reimagining education! Linda P., U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton,Rep. Manny Cruz Sen. Joan Lovely, U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, @Stephen Chan, Andrea Kalyn, Dominick Pangallo, Stephen Zrike, Chelsea Banks
State, Local Leaders See Collins Middle School ‘Studio Learning’ Program on Full Display: https://lnkd.in/eDrsZKte Ed Markey for U.S. Senate | Seth Moulton | Manny Cruz | Dominick Pangallo Joan Lovely | Boston Globe Media | Linda P. | WPS Institute | Salem High School | Stephen Zrike
VIEW GALLERY: State, Local Leaders See Collins Middle School 'Studio Learning' Program on Full Display - Salem School District
https://salemk12.org
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Thank you, leaders and friends, for joining us today at Collins Middle School to witness firsthand how WPS Institute and Salem Public Schools are reimagining education. We’re energized by your insightful conversations with middle schoolers about the power of student-centered learning! 💡 #EducationInnovation #LearnerCentered #Transformation #MiddleSchoolInnovation Sup. Stephen Zrike, Linda P., NEC President Andrea Kalyn, Chelsea Banks, Stephen Chan, U.S. Sen. Markey, U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, Mayor Dominick Pangallo, State Rep. Manny Cruz, State Sen. Joan Lovely
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