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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

EdTech Magazine

It’s a creative space where students not only can build things, but also create things, such as a new advocacy program on a social issue. “In The second floor is a highly configurable makerspace with the potential to cultivate abstract inventiveness. But it’s also a space where they can write a book,” she says.

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How a Culture of Caring Is Helping These Schools Improve Student Mental Health

Edsurge

But then we still have some that wanna be on their phone, they wanna be on their Chromebook here at school, so they isolate themselves.” Some approaches include “advocacy centers” where students are coached through strong emotions with activities like yoga, breathing exercises or calming music.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. Inside Castlemont’s media center in May 2021, Chromebook carts are completely empty. As funding came in, the next step was to buy the Chromebooks and hot spots.

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive. In today’s episode, she talks about the transformation, why they needed change, and implementing successful change. Congress to accelerate innovation in education.

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Newsletter: Privacy Con, OZeLive, GlobalEd.TV, Homeschooling, Making Chromebooks, Student Inquiry, & More

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Patrick Farenga is a leading and unique authority on homeschooling, bringing more than 30 years of fieldwork, advocacy, and personal experience (he and his wife homeschooled their three daughters) to help parents and children learn in their own ways.

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How one school is coping with mental health: Social workers delivering technology, food and counseling to kids at home, and open office hours all day — even when school is out

The Hechinger Report

Before heading out, they call families to see what supplies are needed, including supplies like papers, pencils and crayons, back-up Chromebook chargers or food and warm clothing for kids. Hispanic or Latinx, Black, African American and multiracial students, on average, reported dealing with more obstacles than white or Asian students.

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Exclusive Data on Student Safety to be Revealed on Webinar

Gaggle Speaks

More than 400,000 students completed this year’s Speak Up survey facilitated by Project Tomorrow, a national education nonprofit organization that conducts national research projects, provides online tools and resources for students, teachers and parents, and coordinates national and regional advocacy efforts.

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