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Adding a Computational Boost to Your K-8 Lessons

Digital Promise

How can K-8 teachers integrate computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT) into classrooms? We hope teachers find these examples to be relevant and useful tools to integrate CS/CT lessons and to replicate and adapt these lessons for their classrooms. Have you integrated CS/CT in your classroom?

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What happens when a regular high school decides no student is a lost cause?

The Hechinger Report

He chucked an orange at Mason, who grabbed it and threw it back across the classroom. The adult in this high school classroom, teacher Bridget Shingleton, did not start shouting. The goal is to offer an alternative for kids who struggle in standard classrooms. Zak, who’d been in a funk, started laughing.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

We work with teachers and administrators to create life-long learning patterns in students, whether that’s by curating resources for classroom research projects or by coming into the classroom to teach a lesson on how to do research themselves. Handbooks can summarize library services, events calendars, and important updates.