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Going Beyond the Hour of Code

Digital Promise

Code.org has created a great compilation of resources for how students can continue learning. There are a number of excellent online learning opportunities designed specifically for educators. Read a book, blog, or magazine. Friendly and inclusive learning communities include: CSTA Chapter meetings. Take an online course.

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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. Thomas School has built two dedicated spaces to bolster STEM education, and plans to build a two-floor, state-of-the-art learning space called the Center for Leadership Innovation by 2020.

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How The English Language Learning System Is Failing in America

TeachThought - Learn better.

How The English Language Learning System Is Failing in America. During my seven years of teaching at Raven Elementary in the Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS), I saw a significant increase in the number of Hispanic students and ELL students, so I know the shortcomings of our system firsthand. Here’s what I learned.

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Kids Co-Creating Curriculum

The CoolCatTeacher

Students can co-create curriculum and their classrooms with teachers for powerful learning experiences. Learn how students are teaching each other drone piloting and other examples from Albemarle County, Virginia with Superintendent Pam Moran. Learn more at coolcatteacher.com/guide. Listen Now. Stream by clicking here.

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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

And I was describing to them that, “We got here with a long-term commitment to stay on a course of — really, if you want to call it, progressive education, but trying to really stay focused on trying to educate kids for lifelong learning, not just simply to build a transcript to take some test and to be able to walk across a stage.”

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Educating Kids for Life not for Tests

The CoolCatTeacher

What does Virtual Reality have to offer to the learning process? If you want to learn more about Virtual Reality check out. And our teachers, in terms of being able to exercise that creative juice, that it lets them really explore learning in a way that gets at passions of teachers. I like technology. It doesn’t scare me.

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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

This story also appeared in Belt Magazine “You all know that I call your kids my kids, and they won’t stop being my kids,” Gordon says, wrapping up the meeting. Because of the improvements, her first grader attends William Rainey Harper elementary on the city’s south side. Students lost between 3 and 14 months of learning.