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Pathways to jobs of the future opening via summer STEM programs

The Hechinger Report

As an African-American and a woman, Davis is part of two demographic groups that that are vastly underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) programs. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM.

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

After the Denver Zoo’s James Garcia, who had been seeking a way to help Peruvian scientists save the frogs, saw students present a robot they had built at a local workshop, he asked if they could construct an underwater model. STEM gives me challenges to think about. It’s made me realize how a small group can do such big things.”.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

The Hechinger Report

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. The confusion stems from the study design.

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Carnegie Learning Bets Big on Coding With Acquisition of Globaloria

Edsurge

Globaloria had been incubated at the World Wide Workshop , a nonprofit incubator she founded, since 2006, and supported by roughly $8 million from grants, she shares. After it became an independent company in 2014, Harel raised another $3.5 million in equity and convertible note funding.

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Better Edtech Budgeting: How Yuma Elementary District Makes The Most of Its Money

Edsurge

During 2009, then-Superintendent Darwin Stiffler and Associate Superintendent Duane Sheppard of Yuma Elementary School District One in Arizona had just taken their positions and were trying to figure out how to meet students’ needs. Let’s try meeting all of the needs of our students in math,” Sheppard says. The efforts paid off.

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IT Coaches Leading Change in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

I really do build classroom cohort so that we meet outside of the classroom as groups where we can really collaborate together and plan together. In 2014, she became a state finalist for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science and was recently recognized as a National PAEMST Finalist for Science. How does that work?

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