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Augmented Reality Lessons You Can Use Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Additionally, Mitch co-founded Academic Business Advisors in 2005, to help organizations reach teachers and students in the US. Mitch served on the Board of the Ed-Tech Industry Network (ETIN) of the SIIA from 2012-2019, was cochair from 2015-2016, and was the chair in 2019. 5 Ways to Use Augmented Reality in the Classroom.

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The problem with high-stakes testing and women in STEM

The Hechinger Report

It is expected to be published in a forthcoming 2019 issue and I was given an advance copy. ” By contrast, this study of exceptional students in New York City didn’t find evidence of a smaller pool of super bright girls in STEM. “It’s precisely the same problem,” said Taylor.

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Teachers of the Year Doing Equity Work: What, How, and Why

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is the 2019 Maryland State Teacher of the Year and a nationally awarded STEM innovator. In February 2019, Dr. Warren was inducted into the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s Hall of Excellence, the highest honor of achievement offered by the University. Dr. Richard H. Warren, Jr. Dr. Richard H. Warren, Jr.

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Discovery Education Appoints Scott Kinney as Chief Executive Officer and Kelli Campbell as President

eSchool News

Following stints as Assistant Director of Curriculum and Instruction and Director of Educational Technologies at Pennsylvania’s Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit #21 , Kinney joined Discovery Education in 2005. From March 2020 to July 2020, over 15,000 new schools actively utilized Discovery Education Experience as part of instruction.

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Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school. Now it will become one.

The Hechinger Report

Up until Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, McDonogh 35 had required entering ninth graders to have a high level of academic preparation. By 2019, the school had a student body with some of the biggest challenges in the city. He’s promised to add ACT prep, more Advanced Placement courses, and maybe even a STEM program.

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Michigan School Administrators’ Journey Toward Increased Equity and Inclusion

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She has steep knowledge of teaching and learning and has led key initiatives in the areas of school change, adolescent literacy, writing, mathematics, STEM, cutting-edge instructional technology (augmented reality and artificial intelligence) and school leadership. Dr. Shivers teaches doctoral-level coursework at Madonna University.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Unlike at Olmsted, the highest-scoring elementary school in the city, students at Eve scored around the dismal city average in math and English in 2019, when fewer than a quarter of students passed state tests. Purdue University’s Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute found in 2019 that inequity is the norm.

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