“The Rise of the Phoenix”: Empowering Learners to Create Their Own Learning Cultures and Transform Their School

Abstract

An account of a persistently failing New York City high school’s rapid transformation. Urban Assembly School for Green Careers had a 39% graduation rate in 2013 and ranked in the bottom 1% of high schools citywide. As a transformation strategy, the school employed an innovative educational design known as Learning Cultures, which distributes responsibility for learning to learners. After the first year of implementation the graduation rate rose by 11%. After two years of implementation the school received a “well developed” rating on its external quality review. After 4 years the graduation rate doubled. This report describes the school design and provides an account of educational outcomes.

Education Reform as a Platform to Improve Interactions of the Engineering Students During Online Teaching and Learning at Higher Education Amidst Covid-19 Pandemic

“…Besides, to all above mentioned, activity 3 to 5 were related to online mentoring and online student induction programme where a Happy virtual hour was introduced through Mentimeter, which facilitate for the students to vote themselves to show case their opinion in online mentoring programme. Moreover, online discussion forum was created with Dotstorming to make themselves to reflect by their own (McCallister, 2021). Similarly, the Lucidchart was used to create visual drawings during online student induction session.…”