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Colleges Can Make Calculus a Gateway — Not a Gatekeeper — to STEM Fields

Edsurge

With science and technology jobs expected to grow twice as fast as other occupations over the next decade amid rapidly shifting demographics , creating a robust and diverse pipeline into STEM fields is essential to ensuring U.S. But neither will happen unless we address the fundamental gatekeeper to all STEM fields: undergraduate calculus.

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Put your outside helpers to work

Dangerously Irrelevant

Here’s what my schedule looked like: Workshop 1 (all teachers and administrators) = reconciling competency-based education and deeper learning. Workshop 2 (leadership teams) = leadership challenges related to deeper learning. Workshop 3 (elementary teachers / instructional coaches) = redesigning elementary lessons for deeper learning.

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Kanopy Enhances Kanopy Kids with Short Films from Sesame Workshop and Highlights

eSchool News

Despite that, just over 14% say they are currently collaborating with local schools to help meet their needs. This carefully curated collection now includes a growing selection of more than 1,500 educational, age appropriate videos with parental controls covering topics from STEM to history and story time. About Sesame Workshop.

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A STEM Camp for Young Learners

User Generated Education

I just finished a week long – half day STEM camp for learners, ages 7 through 12, half girls and half boys. I love turning kids onto STEM, and there is evidence that exposure at a younger age increases the chances of later interest. Some Evidence of the Importance of STEM in the Early Years. McClure et al., Reflection.

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The Importance of Developing Spatial Skills for STEM Success

MIND Research Institute

Having a deep conceptual understanding of math creates the problem-solving foundation that all areas of STEM are built on, and early math skills are powerful predictors of later learning. Having well-developed spatial skills is very important for advanced STEM coursework, and many STEM-related occupations.

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Why This College Student Created a Coloring Book to Celebrate Black Women in STEM

Edsurge

EdSurge: Why did you decide to create a coloring book, of all things, about Black women in STEM? That was a breakthrough for me because I was like, “How do I become more hands on and vocal during these team meetings?” What have your experiences with representation in STEM been like? Then in March 2020, the pandemic hit.

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To attract more students to STEM fields in college, advocates urge starting in sixth grade

The Hechinger Report

The various programs take different approaches to include students in STEM education and make it more accessible, but they seem to agree on one thing: starting with students early. Though the STEM workforce has grown exponentially over the last several decades, opportunities have not been distributed evenly.

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