EdTechTeacher

MARCH 1, 2023

March 16th, 7pm ET (Instructor Shawn O’Neill ) Looking to incorporate STEM into your elementary classroom? March 15th, 7pm ET (Instructor Catherine Atkinson ) If the classroom scene from Ferris Bueller is something that keeps you up at night, come find out why it’s important to put the onus of learning on students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To help, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MA DESE) partnered with VHS Learning to create the STEM Advanced Placement Access Expansion Opportunity , which enables up to 1,500 students within the state to take free AP® courses during the 2022-2023 academic year. Boston – Feb.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MARCH 30, 2023

The solution lies in STEM learning. In this article, we’ll dive into the details and tell you all you need to know with answers to these 10 common FAQs related to K12 STEM learning. Table of Contents What does STEM stand for? What is STEM learning? What does STEM learning involve? What is STEM/CS learning?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 19, 2023

Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. Aimed at school-age children, categories include, earth, animals, STEM, family, create and play, know and learn, technology, and more. TumbleBookLibrary TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

Students are expected to have learned to read by age 9, which corresponds to third or fourth grade in elementary school. As students moved from elementary to middle school, the improvement in reading for Black students was dramatic in the 1970s and 1980s. Between 2012 and 2023, 40 years of progress in math vanished.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

In Molly Long’s kindergarten class at Burrus Elementary in Hendersonville, Tenn., Manipulating numbers in different ways, part of a supplemental math curriculum for Murphy’s whole class at Hilltop Elementary in this suburb of Philadelphia, is an attempt to address those problems.

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2022

As districts budget for the 2022-2023 school year, they’ll have some additional funds to spend thanks to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund created by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 10, 2023

Farmhouse Bulletin Board Ideas For Elementary Classroom Designs. Farmhouse Classroom Decor Elementary Students Love. STEM Engineering Design Process Poster Farmhouse Classroom Theme. This is a great idea for displaying quotes from famous people as a STEM or history lesson discussion prompt.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2024

This elementary curriculum engages, inspires, and connects students firsthand to the world around them through a total of 24 student-driven modules. I will definitely use this when doing future STEM projects.” John’s School in Houston, TX. This was difficult for them, but they came up with great ideas.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2023

The school year ended at Washington Elementary at 2:35 p.m. Malaysia Robertson, 9, outside of the closed Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La., on Friday evening, July 28, 2023. Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La., on Sunday evening, July 23, 2023. on Sunday evening, July 23, 2023.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Our students are spread across 31 elementary schools, two pre-K schools, and seven secondary schools. With 30 elementary buildings and six secondary buildings that I oversee, linking teachers across the district can be a struggle. It’s no exaggeration to say that computational thinking plays a part in all of them.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2023

(CAE), a leader in designing innovative performance tasks for measurement and instruction of higher order skills and for subject area assessments, today announced a multiyear collaboration with Project Lead The Way (PLTW), the nation’s leading provider of PreK-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) curricula.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000. By the spring of 2023, school districts had amassed more staff than at any time in history, the Edunomics Lab calculated.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 22, 2023

Cauley, 1954; Logan, 1953; Meyerhoff et al, 2023; Shabiralyani et al. As a fellow educator and researcher in the field, I’ve seen firsthand how visual elements can stimulate interest and understanding across various subject areas and grades, from elementary school all the way to higher education. 2015; Selmeier, 1957).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

None of that math may be necessary for the vast majority of undergraduates who don’t intend to major in science or another STEM field. 26, 2023 session of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics annual conference in Washington D.C. But that’s maybe 20 percent.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

ClassLink celebrated the exceptional achievements of individuals and teams during the closing session of their annual ClassLink Learning Analytics Summit, CLAS 2023, on October 5th. The winners: Of course, we need to start with the most prestigious!

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The accelerated track in middle and high school drew mostly from elementary schools in affluent neighborhoods, where students tended to perform better on a pre-algebra placement test that they had one chance to take as fifth graders. This practice — and mindset — must change.” She decided to talk with her principal at the time, Lisa Witcher.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

That is why STEM education is so important in elementary and middle school. Department of Education for the 2023-24 school year. In the 2023 fiscal year, Perkins grants were funded at $1.44 By exposing children to possible career pathways at an earlier age, we can open up many more worlds of possibilities for them.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Here she is training math teachers on how to teach children to solve word problems at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. One of their leaders held a Science of Math event in Pennsylvania in 2022 and is planning another in 2023. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report How does a revolution start?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Puskar Experts say math research hasn’t gotten as much funding or attention, especially beyond the elementary level. Elementary math teacher Margie Howells teaches a fifth grade class at Wheeling Country Day School in Wheeling, W.Va., Credit: AP Photo/Gene J. Credit: AP Photo/Gene J. on Tuesday, Sept. Credit: AP Photo/Gene J.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2023

Little Scholars of Arkansas (LISA) Academy is a tuition-free public charter school with a comprehensive STEM-focused college preparatory program. Established in 2004, all 11 schools across the state are accredited by the Arkansas Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

But other math educators have decried a move away from Algebra II, which they argue remains core to math instruction and necessary for students to succeed in STEM careers and beyond. According to district data, students who took Data Science as juniors in the 2022-2023 year were more likely to sign up for a math class their senior year.

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MindSpark

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The multi-week externship provides a chance to do that while developing a professional network that can [provide] long term guidance to my program and students.” --Sean Wybrant, 2022 STEMpath Participant STEMpath upskills educators in Computer Science (CS) and STEM, aiming to increase the number of educators in these areas. Permalink

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Elementary Mathematics in Advanced Math Classes : In advanced math classes, students’ understanding of elementary concepts like multiplication tables and basic algebra is crucial for grasping higher-level concepts like calculus or trigonometry. IJ STEM Ed , 6 (33). link] Cordi, M. Schreiner, T., & Rasch, B.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning.

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Discovery Education

APRIL 16, 2023

The Elementary and Secondary School Relief Fund (ESSER) are congressionally-approved rounds (3 total) of relief aid totaling $190 billion for school districts. Learn More Learn More --> ESSER Funding ESSER is still in action!

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

The working group also developed sample scope and sequences for both the elementary and secondary level. One of the complications of implementation and accountability stems from the fact that the TEAACH Act requires “a unit of instruction” dedicated to Asian American history, which is vague and open to interpretation.

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MIND Research Institute

MARCH 1, 2021

All Texans can sign up to receive free access to ST Math for K-5 through December 2023 at www.stmath.com/texas. Patti Sanchez, Assistant Superintendent for Elementary Instruction, Northside ISD, San Antonio. Mary Lankford, Director of STEM Academy, Sinton ISD. initiative. For more information on Texas Home Learning 3.0,

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Discovery Education

MAY 14, 2023

from 2023 to 2030. The Simplest Elementary School Science EdTech Every day, educators are using digital resources to meaningfully support science teaching and learning—and the best EdTech tools are the ones that are easy to use. The industry is set to grow by an impressive 13.6% Here’s some recent news on the Tech in EdTech!

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MindSpark

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

STEMpath is a yearlong STEM and Computer Science certificate program, offering any K-12 educator 24-credit graduate level credits. Here are three areas that transformed classroom practices and process and changed the 2023 cohort’s student learning for the better.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

The third and final chapter of this long-term study was published in the January/February 2023 issue of the journal Educational Researcher , and as I pored over this body of research, I became confused about what it proved. The confusion stems from the study design.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

11, 2023, in Seattle. 11, 2023, in Seattle. “It gives you some initial ideas and possible problem areas for students so I can get myself more prepared before walking into the classroom.” University of Washington’s computer ethics class, taught by Prof. Dan Grossman, at top, Wednesday, Oct. Dan Grossman, Wednesday, Oct.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

where our school buildings are crumbling, where our students are not being adequately prepared to face the realities of the climate crisis, where there are vast inequities across race and class,” said Shiva Rajbhandari, a Sunrise Movement organizer and a 2023 graduate of Idaho’s Boise High School.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind Dearborn Park International School. There are 25 students in the program hosted at the elementary school, and all of them are one to three grades behind. James, 11, couldn’t do two-digit subtraction last week.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. Related: When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class To many observers, Tameka’s troubles stem from Atlanta’s rapid gentrification. She had yet to register the youngest girl, who was entering kindergarten.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Acton, MA – Discovery Museum and Natick-based MathWorks announced today their continued partnership to bring the Museum’s Traveling Science Workshops to classrooms throughout Massachusetts and beyond for the 2023-2024 school year. This is the fourteenth consecutive school year that MathWorks has invested in the school outreach program.

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