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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

EdTech Magazine

Research from School Library Journal indicates that maker activities at elementary and middle schools increased by 4 percent from 2014 to 2017. 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 For its part, St.

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Learning to Breathe: Educators Use Yoga and Meditation to Reduce Burnout

Edsurge

She spent many of her weekends this past fall at an elementary school in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, alongside 83 other peers, including fellow classroom teachers and other educators. Rose, who teaches first and second grade special education at Los Cerritos Elementary School in South San Francisco, felt like she was “was drowning.”

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Kids Co-Creating Curriculum

The CoolCatTeacher

We’ve had some kids in the county that have co-created curriculum with teachers around things that are of interest to them, such as how to create music in a sound studio, and building an elective for that. And their job is to teach all the other kids how to fly this drone.”. Drones in the Classroom. He actually ran for school board.

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

The Hechinger Report

While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The homework gap isn’t new.

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Who is the new U.S. Education Secretary, Miguel Cardona?

The Hechinger Report

He’s not going to be up in front of people talking about [how] we’re going to charge together. He knows how to engage people, bring people to the table, knowing you can’t solve any of these complex problems singularly. I went from 25 kids to 600 at Hanover Elementary School … Now it’s over 530,000, but it’s still service to kids.”.

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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The Hechinger Report

Decades of chronic underfunding is often at the root of the struggles in districts like Cleveland to serve high proportions of Black and Latino students from low-income backgrounds, said Allison Rose Socol, a vice president at The Education Trust, an education advocacy group. Related: How to make Cleveland ‘great again’?

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

How to Get Buy-in For Transformational Change from Teachers. In 2014, Albemarle County students had the second highest SAT scores among 133 school divisions in Virginia in critical reading and the third highest SAT scores for writing and math. Congress to accelerate innovation in education.