Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Researchers also asked respondents to share how many students in their maker clubs or classes hail from underrepresented groups in STEM fields. Another challenge for teachers is the need for more professional development and help in connecting maker activities to curriculum and academic standards.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2019

Additionally, Sphero says it has more than a thousand lessons and activities that are aligned to Common Core and other state academic standards for math and computer science. Students making and tinkering with littleBits. Source: littleBits) Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

New Jersey recently adopted academic standards that intentionally place climate science in all the different sciences and also in a bunch of civics classes, because in addition to being a science issue, it’s more importantly a question of ‘What are we going to do about it?’ What would you say characterizes a “good” state?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2016

Supplementary STEM videos serve to engage students in science learning. These supplemental STEM resources can enhance science curriculum connecting science teaching and learning to career and college readiness. . The South Carolina State Board of Education approved the adoption with Carolina Biological.

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Reading By Example

JULY 30, 2017

Teachers have a lot to juggle: state standards, district expectations, literacy assessments, reading and writing workshop, STEM, social studies, RTI, and math. I am always working with teachers to make sense of our state standards. Our primary goal was to compare and contrast the standards for each subject.

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techlearning

AUGUST 28, 2018

Each lesson includes facilitation suggestions, materials lists, center setup, and academic standards alignment. Each lesson plan provides specific setup suggestions, facilitation tips, and information on addressing cross-curricular connections and academic standards.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2019

Most of the content is aligned to state and national academic standards for grades 3 to 6, according to the company. Learning activities in Adventure Academy (Screenshot: Tony Wan) The curriculum, built by a team of more than 40 experts, covers roughly 100 topics across English language arts, math, science and social studies subjects.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Faced with the pressures of limited time, higher academic standards, diverse student needs, and the responsibility to teach many subjects and multiple grade levels, elementary school teachers have expressed a critical need for easy-to-use, well-designed math resources and ongoing support.

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ExcelinEd

OCTOBER 24, 2019

We must establish clear, high and common academic standards in the classroom. And finally, we need to promote rigorous exposure and engagement in STEM fields early in education – allowing students the ability to infuse real life projects in real world application—essential to 21 st century career success.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 26, 2021

She is a contributor to state and local academic standards and teaching exemplars that help create high learning expectations and opportunities for all students. Katie currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona with her husband and three children and enjoys the outdoors in her free time.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

Unruly Studios (Boston) revolutionizes learning by combining coding and STEM education with physical play. Substantial (501(c)3/Oakland, California) creates training, resources and information customized for each school to help substitute teachers be successful.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards. Challenge: In a groundbreaking study led by The Education Trust, researchers found that “across the country, lessons from the Internet labeled as [standards] aligned are being taught again and again, whether or not they are really worthy.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment. Most require that the students meet minimum academic standards and earn a predetermined number of credits.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 1, 2015

Even the transparency and apparent relevance of a classroom activity factor into the “value” of a learning experience as much as how cleanly that activity aligns with an academic standard. This all emphasizes the value of uncertainty in learning. Uncertainty. There is nothing wrong with being uncertain.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Related: Eight ways to introduce kids to STEM at an early age. These goals still guide the district today. We’ve become laser-focused on these areas in order to really bring up the achievement levels,” said Ayala. Related: Why very young children can — and should — learn math.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2018

With the skills in STEM on the Purdue campus at West Lafayette we really have an opportunity to bring that learning and that forward thinking to all of our students at Purdue Global as well. Another example is we now have one one alumni association. It's something that learning about each other will bring us both to stronger places.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The lack of clear system likely stems from the deep American ambivalence over how much government should intervene in the lives of very young children and how much should be left to families, said Rhian Evans Allvin, executive director of the National Association for Young Children.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 2, 2015

While only an opinion, I genuinely believe that the vast majority of social ills that plague us–as a planet, not just in one country–stem from a surplus of bad work. This happens not by standards and accountability, but substantively changing how we do business. But make it a point to look.

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User Generated Education

AUGUST 18, 2018

I have the privilege of working with 2nd through 6th graders in my gifted education classes and Kindergarten through 6th grade in my summer STEM and robotics camps. Academic standards used by almost all schools are based on the false and incorrect belief of the average student.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Shahan said that it became even harder for charters to reach their projected scores when the state stiffened its academic standards, creating more difficult versions of the state test starting in 2013. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Unfortunately, she added, teachers often don’t know how to address this — a problem that stems from teaching preparation programs. “In Certificates of attendance are designed for students with severe cognitive limitations who cannot meet high school academic standards.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Faced with the pressures of limited time, higher academic standards, diverse student needs, and the responsibility to teach many subjects and multiple grade levels, elementary school teachers have expressed a critical need for easy-to-use, well-designed math resources and ongoing support. “We

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

That’s the first word that Anna Kwan, a K-5 STEM teacher at a public school in Aurora, Colo., Few were subject-specific classroom teachers who had to adhere to a particular curriculum or set of academic standards and faced more difficulty slipping making practices into their day-to-day teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Drug use, suspensions and expulsions have put many students here far behind academically. While Massachusetts high schools adhere to the relatively tough Common Core academic standards, at Independence Academy the priority is on meeting students where they are. The standard is what’s appropriate,” Mr. Kain says. “If

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

Meyer says Desmos’ middle-math core curriculum aligns with state and Common Core academic standards. That means more exercises that allow for open-ended answers, and less abstract questions that simply ask one to “solve for x ,” says Meyer. It’s also not entirely digital.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

That’s the idea at least behind the latest summative assessments from Project Lead the Way , a project-based STEM curriculum, which is introducing new tech-based question types to measure a raft of noncognitive skills from collaboration to general problem solving (in addition to subject-specific questions about engineering or coding concepts).

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

The difficulty involved to build educational video games stems first from development costs, which many aspiring developers tend to underestimate, according to Dan White, CEO of Filament Games, which has created more than 160 learning games in its 14-year history. Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins raised $9.3

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

APRIL 15, 2022

It leads to "grade inflation" It violates some kind of academic machismo code that views student assessment like competition in an arena. This seems to stem from a combination of two misplaced ideas about grades: that they are compensation , or that they are the result of a competition.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 30, 2015

But worried math and science (or STEM at large) teachers struggling to cover their own academic standards are missing the incredible learning potential that writing has. (Perhaps we could make ELA teachers teach Social Studies, and Science teachers teach Math and sufficiently confuse the situation once and for all.).

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2016

Marvin Evins, computer science instructor at Gage Park, said, “Teaching computer science is challenging because you have to get beyond the abstract and rather dry learning material available, and there is no single standard curriculum. It provides my students with a very engaging framework that also maps to important academic standards.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Being standards-based, we support CASEL’s SEL competencies and we encourage our teachers to track them in tandem with academic standards. At Kiddom , my classroom experience with at-risk youth has proved invaluable in helping us build a platform that connects content, curriculum, and analytics.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In addition to their focus on reading, library teachers are responsible for promoting information and digital literacies, which help democratize academic standards and provide students access to learning resources otherwise unavailable. But this simply isn’t true in the modern educational climate.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2016

The new language supports the rights of parents to opt their children out of standardized tests, demand more oversight of charters and oppose evaluating teachers using their students’ standardized test scores.

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