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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

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This ambitious undertaking demands technical expertise and embodies the true essence of interdisciplinary collaboration. Their interdisciplinary approach incorporates the work of both solar panel designers and nuclear reactor engineers, seeking solutions that optimize energy generation while adapting to the unique Martian conditions.

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Embracing a growth mindset when reviewing student data

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Many of our students entered the school year below grade level, and while achieving grade-level mastery is challenging, a growth mindset allows us to see their potential, celebrate progress, and plan for further successes amongst our students. Instead of focusing on what students cant do, we emphasize what they can achieve.

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

Faculty Focus

This ambitious undertaking demands technical expertise and embodies the true essence of interdisciplinary collaboration. Their interdisciplinary approach incorporates the work of both solar panel designers and nuclear reactor engineers, seeking solutions that optimize energy generation while adapting to the unique Martian conditions.

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Elmwood School: Where Girls Rise with Confidence, Curiosity and Global Vision

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There was no fanfarejust a vision, a small classroom, and a deep belief in what girls could achieve when given the right environment to grow. The IBs interdisciplinary structure plays a key role. The school is designing flexible, interdisciplinary spacesboth physical and digitalthat bring subjects together in unexpected, exciting ways.

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aiEDU: The AI Education Project unveils AI Readiness Framework

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“This framework will help define what AI Readiness really means and, most importantly, how we achieve it for a generation of learners adapting to this new and rapidly changing technology.” aiEDU’s framework has three parts.

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Helping students learn new tech skills–and exceed expectations

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So, how did the Crockett Foundation’s students, most of whom attend Title I schools and live in historically under-resourced communities, achieve this sort of success? Such a position can help frame classroom assignments as interdisciplinary tasks and projects that require knowledge from other classes and other subjects.

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Graduate Students Want to Solve ‘Wicked Problems.’ Are Universities Delivering?

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Graduate education—with its specialization, close access to faculty members, and opportunities for deep learning—ought to help with this kind of interdisciplinary training. Do graduate students themselves want to pursue interdisciplinary aims and become “wicked”? Those who have enrolled in intentionally interdisciplinary Ph.D.