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South Carolina adopts science video service

eSchool News

Supplementary STEM videos serve to engage students in science learning. These supplemental STEM resources can enhance science curriculum connecting science teaching and learning to career and college readiness. The South Carolina State Board of Education approved the adoption with Carolina Biological.

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Tomorrow’s New Normal: What It Means for Professional Development

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Due to COVID-19, most of our educational systems reflect a new normal, with hybrid and remote learning, increased use of technology, and teacher professional development. Both Clayton County Public Schools and Phoenix Union High School District had learning platforms such as Google and Microsoft for years before the pandemic.

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. It includes students with specific learning disabilities (such as dyslexia and dysgraphia), hearing and vision impairments, emotional disabilities, autism and more severe cognitive delays. He said he never had to study or actually learn anything to get an A. Weekly Update.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

Shahan said that it became even harder for charters to reach their projected scores when the state stiffened its academic standards, creating more difficult versions of the state test starting in 2013. It’s stuff that we learned.”. It’s stuff that we learned.”. But that wasn’t a thing then. But that wasn’t a thing then.

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Making Is Great Because It’s Chaotic. But Not Everyone Is Looking for Chaos.

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That’s the first word that Anna Kwan, a K-5 STEM teacher at a public school in Aurora, Colo., By “messy,” Kwan means two things: both the appearance of the classroom and the style of inquiry and learning that students must adopt in order to thrive during making lessons. “But They're trying new things.”

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Can Individual Tests Really Measure Collaboration?

Edsurge

That’s the idea at least behind the latest summative assessments from Project Lead the Way , a project-based STEM curriculum, which is introducing new tech-based question types to measure a raft of noncognitive skills from collaboration to general problem solving (in addition to subject-specific questions about engineering or coding concepts).

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

We work with teachers and administrators to create life-long learning patterns in students, whether that’s by curating resources for classroom research projects or by coming into the classroom to teach a lesson on how to do research themselves. What does a modern library look like? What are the emerging technologies in a library?