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Seven Steps to Ensure English Learners Aren’t Left Out of STEM

Edsurge

As demand for professionals in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields continues to surge , a significant population of potential workers is being left out of these career opportunities: English learners. Rather, it stems from a lack of access to rigorous, age-appropriate instruction in the field.

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Racism is a subtle, silent enemy of STEM classrooms

eSchool News

As you consider your own role as a teacher in building a classroom that inspires belonging for every student, assess yourself on the following factors that can contribute to inequity and turn your classroom from a healthy one into a toxic one. Every student should be able to see diversity in the STEM fields.

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Racism is a subtle, silent enemy of STEM classrooms

eSchool News

As you consider your own role as a teacher in building a classroom that inspires belonging for every student, assess yourself on the following factors that can contribute to inequity and turn your classroom from a healthy one into a toxic one. Every student should be able to see diversity in the STEM fields.

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Help Build an OpenSciEd Research Agenda

Digital Promise

As such, OpenSciEd has several unique benefits relative to typical, commercially produced instructional materials. As an open educational resource, OpenSciEd is under an open license for people to use, remix, and share.

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Renaissance Learning Acquires Schoolzilla to Marry Assessment and School Data

Edsurge

based provider of instructional software and formative assessment tools that is on a buying spree. In the past, it’s focused on pairing assessments with digital instructional materials. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition marks an expansion in Renaissance’s offerings.

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Savvas Learning Company Introduces the Newly Updated enVision Mathematics 2024

eSchool News

digital lessons, add to an array of multimedia lessons and project-based learning activities, including 3-Act Math Modeling , Pick a Project , and STEM Projects , that invite every student’s input to build a collective understanding of new ideas.

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Savvas Learning Company Acquires Outlier.org 

eSchool News

Outlier’s asynchronous 14- and 15-week (semester) and 39-week (full-year) general-education courses offer high school students an introduction to the fundamental ideas typically taught on college campuses in STEM, humanities, economics, business, and other classes. The courses are designed to fit within a standard 45-minute period.

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