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Kidwind Celebrates Top Renewable Energy Innovations From Students At The 2023 National Kidwind Challenge

eSchool News

Elementary School Division (Grades 4-5) Hutch STEM Blue from STEM Magnet School at Allen in Hutchinson, Kan. Since the first competition in 2009, the KidWind Challenge and its partners have successfully implemented events in 42 states, with roughly 50,000 students competing in 400 events across the country.

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Treering Announces New Philanthropic Partnership with Sandy Hook Promise

eSchool News

The yearbook company signed a three-year pledge, which will support Sandy Hook Promise’s ability to bring the life-saving, evidence-informed “Know the Signs” prevention programs into more K-12 classrooms nationwide at no cost to schools. We founded Treering in 2009 with the goal of creating a more inclusive yearbook.

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Top 5 new EdTech tools that you might use in your university

Neo LMS

For instance, Osso VR is a virtual reality technology company founded on the principle of training surgeons with real world skills that can be directly applied when in the operating room. The Kudan Elementary School in downtown Tokyo organized the first robot teacher testing as far back as 2009. They are patient and unbiased.

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Most families have given up virtual school, but what about students who are still thriving online?

The Hechinger Report

The second grader attends SpaRRk Academy, a virtual learning program for elementary students created in 2021 by the Rio Rancho School District in New Mexico. A longtime administrator in Rio Rancho, Aaker led the district-wide transition of elementary students to online learning when Covid struck. It wasn’t just a mother’s intuition.

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How a $40M Investment Aims to ‘Mainstream and Modernize’ Montessori Education

Edsurge

Since 2016, a California company has set out to make Montessori mainstream through building and acquiring a network of schools and technologies, and offering professional development programs to prepare future Montessori teachers and leaders. based company has raised $70 million in venture capital. To date, the Lake Forest, Calif.-based

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COLUMN: There’s a lot of new federal money for greening K-12 education. This is how schools could use it

The Hechinger Report

For-profit companies will actually do the work. An energy service company, or ESCO, can start with an initial building energy audit, often for free, which then can become the basis of your federal grant application. We’ve saved $500,000 per year in electricity through conservation compared to 2009,” she said.

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David, Goliath, and the Future of the U.S. K-12 OER Movement

Doug Levin

K-12 education system by open educational resources (OER) since 2009, although my first exposure to the ideas and leaders of the movement stretch back to the launch of the MIT OpenCourseWare initiative. I’ve been engaged in thinking deeply about the promise and opportunity afforded the U.S.

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