Digital Promise

JULY 19, 2018

Some of our professional development workshops are geared toward a particular group of educators: those who teach K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics, also known as STEM. We all use language,” one STEM teacher recognized, “whether it’s in the directions we give or the handouts we use.”. What Can we Do Right Now?

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Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2018

As community makerspaces begin to take root in Ontario’s elementary schools , students are behaving better. They are most often associated with STEM education (science, technology, engineering and math). As the founder of MAKE magazine Dale Dougherty states in his 2011 TED Talk: “ We are all makers. ”. Read the original article.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Related: Pathways to jobs of the future opening via summer STEM programs. North Star is part of the Uncommon Schools network, which has elementary, middle and high schools in Newark. Yet for years, students like McGee had limited exposure to the world of STEM, or science, technology, engineering and math.

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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Notes from a TCEA 2011 Concurrent Session Diane Kahanek Technology Facilitator Village Elementary School Georgetown ISD What is STEM? Why integrate STEM? It is a school-wide STEM porogram for one month. Last year, another elementary was bussed over to learn from the Village students. School is decorated.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, Makerspace, Inquiry, Computational Thinking, and the 4 C’s. I will be providing workshops and featured sessions on STEM, PBL, Inquiry, Maker Space, and Computational Thinking! Check out my Booking Page. My calendar is filling.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

While Acera serves 130 students in kindergarten through ninth grade at the steep price of $26,400 for elementary school and $28,300 for middle school, with limited financial aid offered, Lowell Public Schools is a large, urban district serving almost 14,500 students, 71 percent of whom are considered high needs.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2016

As a first-year teacher at Antheil Elementary School in Ewing, New Jersey, one of Linda Hoffman’s favorite moments is when her third grade students have an “aha” moment. The crisis of finding teachers for these subjects is by now familiar: We have a shortage of STEM teachers and too few interested, diverse STEM students.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 30, 2019

This spring, Hyundai Motor America (HMA) announced a $250,000 donation to Montgomery Public Schools (MPS) for STEM education. Morris Elementary. HMA has partnered with MIND Research Institute since 2011 and has committed over $2 million to our ST Math program in the eight years since. Zafar Brooks, HMA. Stay tuned. May 21, 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2023

Since 2011, national math test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, fell by 17 points for eighth graders and 10 points for fourth graders in data analysis, statistics and probability.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

He has been an active member of the Microsoft Innovative Expert Educator program since 2011. In addition to being honored with regional, state, national and international recognition, he has presented at conferences worldwide. Currently, he serves on of the board of CSTA.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Bellow was honored by ISTE in 2010 as an emerging leader and then again in 2011 when he was named Outstanding Young Educator of the year. Listen to the interview with Karen Lirenman and Kristen Wideen about their favorite iPad apps for elementary classrooms. ” Want to learn about another technology? Adam Bellow [link] [link].

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 8, 2011

Science and literacy instruction in the elementary grades is the focus of a new series of web seminars for the 2010-2011 school year. The series is sponsored by Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, an NSF-funded project that provides professional development and instructional resources to elementary teachers.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 20, 2015

When the world talks about STEM education for the most part they talk around elementary teachers rather than to elementary school teachers. A 2012 report on student motivation toward STEM career, out of The University of Nevada, (How to Motivate US Students to Pursue STEM Careers by Md. STEM grows from the root.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

We’ll focus on apps that lend themselves to STEM as well as apps to facilitate integration across disciplines. EPA WaterSense and WasteWater Education will present a free hour seminar to introduce home school, elementary and high school teachers to the curriculum materials available from USEPA to promote March 14-20, 2011 "Fix A Leak Week!"

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

But a large survey of 2,000 elementary schools in three states found that not much advanced content is actually being taught to gifted students. Related: The problem with high-stakes testing and women in STEM. Their academic needs cannot be met in a general education class, advocates say.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Part of that buy-in stems from parents’ approval of the way kids are assigned to schools in this largely working-class central Mississippi town. When Pearl launched, students were initially zoned for elementary school according to their neighborhood. Folks here have always been willing to step up for education.”.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Worldvuze – Take some time to explore this map-based question and answer education platform where elementary and secondary students around the world can learn directly from each other! QUADBlogging – QuadBlogging was born in 2011 and since its conception, over 500,000 students from over 65 countries have taken part.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

In 2011, a panel of mathematicians and math educators mapped college-prep sequences in high school math and proposed pathways that led not only to calculus but also to statistics, linear algebra and data analysis. It’s time to reconsider the dominance of calculus.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

When the fledgling club first traveled to Atlanta in 2011 for JTF, it was invited to perform on the festival’s main stage, in front of 6,000 people, and as iTheatrics founder Timothy Allen McDonald put it, “they got a standing ovation and brought down the house.” Most high schools, he said, already have some sort of theater program.)

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

A 2011-12 survey found an average of 9 percent of students nationwide had repeated at least one grade; in Louisiana, the average was 23 percent. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Elementary think alouds. At the elementary stage, these quotes represent talking points from our 4th and 5th graders. On the other had, a smaller number of elementary students see Wikipedia as a starting point to discover additional content. Connaway, Lanclos, & Hood, 2013a; 2013b; White, 2011). 2011, September 30).

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2017

After serving students in Austin since 2011, Sara will begin leading Montessori for All’s Redbud school in San Antonio when it opens for the 2017-2018 school year. 2015 Finalist for Dallas ISD Elementary Principal of the Year. Nancy Bernardino, Solar Preparatory School for Girls. Nancy Bernardino , Solar Preparatory School for Girls.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

In 2011-12, the year before its agreement with the Obama administration’s Office for Civil Rights, Oakland logged 6,134 suspensions, according to state data. In her program, educators learn how traumatic experiences affect kids’ brain development and how to identify the behaviors that stem from such trauma.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. The No Child Left Behind targets, set in 2001, became more flexible in 2011, after U.S.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Excerpted from Making Science: Reimagining STEM Education in Middle School and Beyond by Christa Flores, published in 2016 by Constructing Modern Knowledge Press. By Christa Flores. They act, think and work as real scientists and inventors. Benefit No.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

When Ashley Park was converted from an elementary school to a K-8 a decade ago, over the objections of the community, it was the bus ride, with its noisy, chaotic comingling of kids, that many parents feared the most. They worried that their younger children might be corrupted, bullied or worse. They said, ‘don’t do this to us again.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Aliah Corona and Dakkota Ryf, both 8 in this photo, check the force it takes to move a bag of potatoes six inches using wheels during their third-grade STEAM enrichment class at Pioneer Elementary School in Quincy, Washington. Related: Alaska Native students pursue STEM with great success. Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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MindShift

JANUARY 24, 2019

This story about STEM education was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. The Museum of Science’s Engineering is Elementary curriculum is aimed at attracting potential engineers before they get distracted by whether or not they fit the stereotype.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Through a five-year radical book-weeding process from 2011- 2016, the NCHS library had eliminated all of the library’s free-standing bookshelves. Related Content: eSchool News STEM, STEAM, & Makerspaces Guide. The eSchool News STEM, STEAM, & Makerspaces Guide is here! A multi-year redesign.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. The Senate Education Committee began work this week sifting through the 800-some-odd-page reauthorization for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. No matter where you are in the world you can see the schedule in your own time.

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MindShift

AUGUST 16, 2021

When Ashley Park was converted from an elementary school to a K-8 a decade ago, over the objections of the community, it was the bus ride, with its noisy, chaotic comingling of kids, that many parents feared the most. They worried that their younger children might be corrupted, bullied or worse. They said, ‘don’t do this to us again.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. The bill will be a massive revisions to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Responding to President Obama''s call to train 100,000 teachers in STEM subjects in the next 10 years, Google and 80 other organizations have founded 100Kin10.

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edWeb.net

MAY 27, 2021

She has served as an elementary teacher, elementary assistant principal, elementary principal, director of curriculum, director of school services, transportation director, assistant superintendent of achievement and five years as the superintendent of Redford Union School District No. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 10, 2018

Now, Sean, you’re currently working with iPads and some online formative assessments for STEM classrooms. He also continues to consult for various districts across the country at the elementary, middle, and secondary level training teachers and administrators. What kind of research are you doing right now? Retrieved from: [link].

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

But there are early signs that the school’s efforts to stem the worst of the pandemic fallout may be helping. West is housed in a bright, 17,000-square-foot building constructed in 2011, and has committed teachers and an energetic principal. West Philadelphia High School’s current building opened in 2011.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

In 2011, when the teachers unions in Wisconsin lost much of its bargaining power through the passage of Act 10, Kettle Moraine’s superintendent, Patricia Deklotz , watched as districts around the state responded by instituting performance-based evaluations.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In 2013-2015 he taught 4th and 5th grade STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) at Independence Elementary in Yukon Public Schools in Oklahoma. in Curriculum and Instruction from Texas Tech University in 2011. He is the Director of Technology for the Casady School in Oklahoma City. Wesley completed his Ph.D.

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