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Utah STEM Action Center Releases Exemplar Statewide Program Evaluation

MIND Research Institute

A new bar has been set for state-grants-funded digital math programs evaluation. The Utah STEM Action Center has released its 2020 annual report , which includes the results of their comprehensive statewide program evaluation. What can other states take from this analysis?

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Documenting and Reflecting on Learning

User Generated Education

Blogging has its own unique benefits as Sylvia Duckworth’s Sketchnote summarizes: Experiential, STEM, STEAM, and maker education are the focus of my gifted education classes. For example, for a design challenge, I asked learners to include the following vocabulary: design thinking. communicate. A Picture Tells So Many Stories.

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With Budget Cuts Looming, Here’s How Districts Will Decide What to Keep or Cut

Edsurge

Evidence-based Investments There is a long-standing interest in spending academic intervention funds on programs with a record of success. To date, these requirements have been more of a compliance exercise than practical guides to good investments. But that’s likely to change when budgets get tight.

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An Interactive Tool Empowers High Schoolers To Take Control of Career Planning

Edsurge

For example, if students tell me they want to go into the medical field, they need to understand that science is important, and if they don't like science or if they're not good at science, that provides their advisory teacher a great opportunity to have a heart-to-heart conversation about how they need to work on those science skills.

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Michigan School Administrators’ Journey Toward Increased Equity and Inclusion

edWeb.net

Dr. Davis identified some key steps needed at the start of an equity journey, using his work with the diverse Holland Public Schools as an example. And equally important is determining all the assessments and grading are free of bias and accurately reflect student mastery. Starting the Journey.

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Bring Science to Life: The Impact of Video Game Simulations

edWeb.net

They should understand science concepts and draw on them to answer questions and solve problems as well as connect them to other STEM concepts. Disciplinary core ideas that focus science curricula, instruction, and assessments on the most important aspects of science. For example: Mule deer have a 66% chance of finding food.

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