eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

hand2mind’s Hands-On Standards is an amazing collection of resources that will not just supplement, but more so fully enrich mathematics teaching and learning in any classroom, with seemingly endless paths for students to be truly engaged in the mathematics they are learning,” said Skip Fennell. EST (3:45 p.m.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

While we’ve seen tremendous support from kindergarten and elementary teachers in the past five years who individually purchased Osmo to use inside classrooms across the country, we’d love to build sales and begin support for the education community at the district level.”. million homes and 50,000 classrooms, respectively.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Young adolescents go through profound physical, emotional and physiological changes; play inside and outside the classroom can provide one way for kids to develop healthy bonds with friends and become more self-confident. “I For example, the modeling clay and other crafts were used as part of a stop-motion animation project in his classroom.

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2017

By 2018, it is estimated that 71 percent of new STEM positions will be related to computing; it is apparent that computer science is the future of the job market. Data source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2008-2018. So, how is coding included in the traditional school day?

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Episode 793 - The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast How to Differentiate Math Instruction in the Elementary Classroom Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson. So Each May Soar: The Principles & Practices of Learner-Centered Classrooms (2021) Everybody’s Classroom: Differentiating for the Shared and Unique Needs of Diverse Learners (2022) eSpark.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 22, 2016

Please listen and share with your classroom if appropriate. Bennett was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the second round of the 2008 NFL Draft. I am so excited to share this TED Talk given by athlete and creative genius, Martellus Bennett. On a personal note, my huband plays basketball with him.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

A 2008 study in Los Angeles public schools found that those who didn’t pass algebra by ninth grade were half as likely to graduate as those who did. Math courses are “the most significant barrier to degree completion in both STEM and non-STEM fields,” the authors concluded. Algebra I is the air you breathe to be in STEM.”

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2019

She shares classroom news and mathematical activities. UT STEM Center @utstemcenter. The UT STEM Center's mission is to improve the teaching and learning of STEM through research, outreach, and educational services. The STEM Center is offering math and science professional development for K-5 teachers this August 1-2.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

It became know as the flipped classroom—a modern, video-based version of a model pioneered by a handful of higher ed professors during the 1990s. Or maybe it stemmed from the fact that anyone could get the gist of the teaching idea in the time it takes to rattle off a sound bite. Jon Bergmann. Flipped OS.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2015

Dollar-for-dollar match brings robots to classrooms teaching computational thinking. Wonder Workshop is also working with Pencils of Promise, an organization founded in 2008 with the goal of increasing access to quality education for children in the developing world.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2019

For Today’s Kids, Playing Nintendo in the Classroom Isn’t Just a Dream by Emily Tate Anyone get a Nintendo Switch for Christmas? The gaming giant worked with the Institute of Play to create STEM-focused, hands-on learning experiences that promote collaboration, creativity and problem solving. Can You Say Unicorn?

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EdTechTeam

MAY 12, 2017

I was intrigued by Chapter 2 and the classroom uses in multiple content areas. It really isn’t that challenging, just takes a little planning and encouraging to promote this side of what we can do with VR in the classroom. Makerspaces, technology, STEM, and all things Google are some of the driving forces for him as an educator.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Related: Millions of kids are missing school as attendance tanks across the US Thousands of students went missing from American classrooms during the pandemic. Contact logs provided by the district show social workers from three schools have sent four emails and called the family 19 times since the pandemic closed classrooms in 2020.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Sam Brooks: My background in Putnam County started out really as a football coach and a biology teacher in a classroom years ago. put students on individualized learning plans, possibly using technology in the classroom. And, man, believe it or not, on top of all that, he is a completely flipped classroom teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

A student jumps off a bus to enter McDonogh #35 Senior High School before the start of the school day March 19, 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Funding for McDonogh 35, New Orleans’ last noncharter school, fell from $15,594 per student in 2008-09 to $11,651 per student in 2016-17. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images).

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

She said her first two weeks managing a classroom have been difficult, but she believes she will learn the skills necessary to teach. He said the STEM classes allow him to design the curriculum, and he plans to utilize his real-world knowledge. “As time passes and I get more experience, I’ll definitely get better.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Many students are turning to STEM and other vocational fields in hopes of better job prospects. According to the Kauffman Foundation’s 2008 report on this trend, entrepreneurship in higher education is growing fast, with formal programs quadrupling from 104 in 1975 to more than 500 in 2006.

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Check out these five resources to kick-start digital citizenship in your classroom! EverFi Ignition (grades 6–9) EverFi is an organization founded in 2008 primarily to provide free financial-literacy resources to schools. BrainPop (grades K–12), BrainPop Jr.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

And they leave at higher rates largely because of poor working conditions—including a lack of input in key decisions affecting their classrooms—not because of dissatisfaction with teaching more broadly. She arrived as an elementary teacher in 2008, drawn by the school’s racial diversity and stellar record in academics and the arts.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Only about 55 percent of students who started at a four-year school in 2008 had bachelor’s degree six years later. At the time, public budgets were reeling in the aftermath of the 2008 recession, and states were cutting funding for public universities. But some STEM majors are tougher than others. Related: Federal data shows 3.9

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 4, 2020

After joining the district in 2008, Stacie assisted in launching the Anythink brand that in 2011 garnered the John Cotton Dana Award for Outstanding Public Relations in Libraries. Alongside his libraries Christian likes cycling, LEGO and socks.

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MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

Below we offer our Top Five reasons why, as educators, we should care about spatial thinking when we plan, observe, and assess mathematics in our classrooms. Spatial thinking is an important predictor of achievement in STEM careers. Spatial reasoning and mathematical thinking are intimately linked.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Now, you’ve been here for quite a while, you founded the education strand in 2007, 2008. When I was teaching, it was easy to become skeptical of external organizations’ efforts, especially if you felt like no one from that organization had been a teacher or stepped foot in a classroom. Why did the Education Studio come to be?

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Did you know that music lessons can help students excel in STEM ? Over four million elementary school children receive no visual arts lessons in the classroom.[6] Why integrate arts into your classroom at all when there’s so much else you need to teach? Art can do wonders for your classroom environment.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

There’s an education happening outside the classroom with people our kids otherwise wouldn’t come into contact with.” . Standing in front of a classroom of 11th- and 12th-graders at the high school in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, O’Neal had a startling revelation.

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MIND Research Institute

AUGUST 10, 2021

Conversations in the classroom were limited and constrained by prompts. Visit the ST Math Play Page and explore a variety of free, standards-aligned games that will create more engagement in your classroom. 11 Lessons on Game-based Learning and STEM Education. For example, take my personal journey to learn Spanish. June, 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

Kate Allender, of Tesla STEM High School, has designed a course integrating AP Psychology with a hands-on study of forensics. Christine Lee, a 17-year-old junior at Tesla STEM High School. By design, students spend as much of their time involved in production projects as they do in their academic classrooms. REDMOND, Wash. —

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

In the United States alone, jobs website Indeed reports that reduced productivity stemming from open positions accounted for $160 billion of lost revenue in 2014. Today’s higher ed institutions can measure student learning outcomes, but how are students actually demonstrating these outcomes in the classroom?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

Students, their parents and guardians, and educators continue to grapple with the stress, depression, frustration and grief stemming from closed schools, lost jobs and wages, death of loved ones and prolonged uncertainty caused by Covid. The pandemic has thrust student mental health into the spotlight.

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Educator Innovator

JANUARY 13, 2016

But after a tobacco settlement left the state with additional education funding in 2008, the Springfield City School District (SCSD) made some needed infrastructure improvements. Along with opening a new school focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), they knew they wanted to create an engaging afterschool program.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

She filled classrooms with four full-time substitutes, who had bachelor’s degrees but no training in teaching. Busing, stemming from a 50-year desegregation order that was just lifted last year, helped to integrate some Avoyelles schools. When Jacobs received her staff list in the summer of 2018, she had 43 teachers and 10 vacancies.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

In drab classrooms, students, many of whom have struggled with school, presented research that would determine whether they would graduate this year. The report also found that 2008 graduates from assessment schools were more likely to remain in college for a second year than were graduates of other schools.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

The Latino Boom, 1993-2008 (plus smaller populations of Bosnians and other refugees). David Drew , Reforming STEM Education in America. What’s driving the emphasis on STEM? . Our nation doesn’t seem to be doing well on international measures of STEM achievement. Global events are having local consequences. social media).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The impetus for the change at Juarez can be traced to Ocon’s appointment as principal in 2008, veteran school staffers say. The difference in the school between 2008 and now is night and day,” said Mary Norris, a chemistry teacher who’s been at the school for 18 years. It was a trade-off that veteran Juarez teachers say was worth it.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Antioch is, in fact, doing surprisingly well just by still being open, considering it was revived by these alumni after being shut down in 2008 under a previous board of trustees that had diverted many of its assets into a chain of satellite graduate campuses. Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

The school’s halls and classrooms are bright and airy, with high ceilings and oversize windows looking out across the lush landscape. In 2016, Southwest Georgia STEM Charter School launched in Randolph County. There is even a terrace on which students can work on warm days.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2016

” The money owed is by All Children Matter Inc stemming from fines to the Ohio Elections Commission for violating campaign finance law. Via the AP : “The state of Utah has denied it has anti-gay school laws as it defends itself from a lawsuit challenging restrictions on talk about homosexuality in the classroom.”

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