eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

For example, while studying engineering principles, teachers can incorporate art by challenging students to design aesthetically-pleasing yet functional structures, blending engineering and design thinking. Cross-disciplinary connections can help students see STEM from new perspectives and understand its relevance.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2020

Each course is designed as an academically challenging place-based experience that integrates language arts, math, science, and the visual arts. Designed to be part of a student’s learning experience, these interdisciplinary courses engage students in rich content, applicable skills, and center around a Community Impact Project.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Thus, we incorporate graphic arts, engineering, data analysis, and technology into all of our non-STEM courses. You must have enough teachers, the right technology, and lessons that infuse STEM into all classes including history and English/language arts, just to name a few. This in turn sparks passion.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) has become more prominent as an effective approach to interdisciplinary learning. Implementation, though, is not about lessons, units, or even just adding a few elements of science into art or vice versa. Schools can start small, but it must be more than one teacher.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

By embracing interdisciplinary learning, NGSS weaves math, language arts, and social science concepts into the science classroom, creating a richer, more connected educational experience for students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2024

Her words describe the transformative power of reading — a skill that, unlike spoken language, humans are not naturally hardwired to master. Language comprehension involves developing background knowledge for context and mastering language structures, such as grammar and syntax, to make sense of sentences and larger texts.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Research shows that to become proficient readers, students need early literacy instruction in both word recognition and language comprehension. What’s the difference between word recognition and language comprehension? Why does phonics receive more attention than language comprehension?

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

She was able to provide industry-specific language, discuss best practices and help my students implement real plans to support the preschoolers in our building. Weaving Subjects Together to Create More Meaning for Students Interdisciplinary connections allow students to explore topics through a variety of lenses.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

Aida Hadzovic English Language Arts Teacher, Brooklyn School District Hadzovic: At first, to be honest, I was hesitant. My classes have a lot of English language learners, and they speak a multitude of languages. EdSurge: How did using AI tools in your classroom change your approach to teaching writing?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2024

Embracing the Art of Reading One of the most effective and time-honored methods for honing one’s writing skills is to immerse oneself in the works of accomplished authors and essayists. By embracing the freedom of freewriting, one can tap into the well of subconscious creativity and cultivate a more fluid and expressive writing style.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2022

She is teaching me how to properly introduce myself in our Lakota language, Lak?ótiyapi. I feel a deep sense of comfort knowing she has had this conversation before with dozens of young Lakota learners during her time as a Lakota language teacher in our community of Fort Yates on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Before joining the PGSD Technology Department, Stoney was a Language Arts teacher at Trent Lott Academy for five years. His dedication and expertise in educational technology were recognized when he was named the Mississippi Educational Computing Association’s Technology Integration Specialist of the Year in 2024.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

No longer confined to a corner space in the back of the library, Making activities are finding their way into lessons on history and biology, literature and language. No longer confined to a corner space in the back of the library, Making activities are finding their way into lessons on history and biology, literature and language.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Art Graesser: A lot of the learning that goes on is shallow learning: memorizing things and being exposed to ideas, for example. With advances in educational data mining, we can infer learners’ emotions from their natural language interaction with systems, their facial expressions, even their body posture. It’s a different world.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Use them to begin longer narrative essays, begin class discussions, or introduce elements of fiction in your language arts class. Narrative Writing Prompts: TASK CARDS By Stacey Lloyd Grades: 6th-10th Subjects: Creative Writing, English Language Arts Avoid writers block with a helpful set of narrative writing task cards.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2017

Students in schools with the SEP program begin by learning block-based programming languages like Scratch before getting into robotics, physical computing, text-based programming like Python and web development. Computer science is a class SEP students attend daily and is a required core subject.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

According to the Education Commission of States, about 20 states now require that districts allow students to apply specified computer science courses toward completion of mathematics, science or, as a foreign language. But is coding preoccupying the hearts and minds of students after school hours?

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

From traditional activities to authentic work: Moving from isolated academic work environments to providing students opportunities to engage with and contribute to relevant local, national, and international interdisciplinary communities. Where’s the Humanity?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2019

That’s the kind of insight Yale art students and faculty bring to Blended Reality, a cross-curricular applied research program through which they create interactive experiences using virtual reality, augmented reality and 3D printing tools. Art and humanities students have made observations that Berry calls simple but powerful.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Ninth grade students in an interdisciplinary Global Science Perspectives class were asked to explore the themes of the course and find correlations between culture and science. Andrew Larson is a science and language arts facilitator at Columbus Signature Academy New Tech High School in Columbus, Indiana.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Construct a Hypothesis Through our school model, students experience hands-on interdisciplinary learning through projects, or expeditions, as we call them, that each last 10 to 12 weeks and require students to tackle real world problems that don’t have easy paths to solutions or one right answer.

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Teach Hub

AUGUST 28, 2024

Integrating Music into All Subjects Music can be seamlessly integrated into all subjects to create an interdisciplinary learning experience for students. By integrating music into writing, you are tapping into your students’ feelings and emotions and allowing them to articulate their feelings more deeply.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 7, 2025

Journal Writing Prompts Bell Ringers for a Full Year Editable Distance Learning By Tracee Orman Grades: 5th-12th Subjects: English Language Arts, Writing Standards: CCSS RI.5.1, 17 Cross-Curricular Journal Prompts for High School Writing isnt limited to language arts! What is your favorite medium to use in art class?

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

“We are focusing on these interdisciplinary outcomes of skills, which would be research, analysis, writing, and presentation, and communication,” she explains. But through this work, they are also learning the English language arts standards required by her state. It’s just a letter instead of a word.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 20, 2023

Some quick background on me: My experience is in English language arts for grades 6 through 12. Even from within, the “sides” often talk about one another in polarizing language. “They didn’t sound like language. “Most of them made little or no sense,” Serravallo says.

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2019

And his work draws from his experiences in school, weaving across the realms of interdisciplinary thinking, social-emotional learning, self care, and the steady search for creativity on a human scale. I had a good art teacher and a good English teacher, and those two things, English and art, are part of my journey.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

Translate Understanding : Translation involves reframing complex concepts into accessible language. Writing fosters this process by requiring students to prioritize significant ideas, translate complex concepts into accessible language, and analogize insights to new or interdisciplinary challenges.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

Students in language arts can learn the political pros and cons of multilingual communications, teaching, and governing. Crystal Harris is assistant professor in the interdisciplinary studies program at Governors State University. Students in history courses can compare and contrast elements of past and current insurrections.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

Translate Understanding : Translation involves reframing complex concepts into accessible language. Writing fosters this process by requiring students to prioritize significant ideas, translate complex concepts into accessible language, and analogize insights to new or interdisciplinary challenges.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

Students in language arts can learn the political pros and cons of multilingual communications, teaching, and governing. Crystal Harris is assistant professor in the interdisciplinary studies program at Governors State University. Students in history courses can compare and contrast elements of past and current insurrections.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 6, 2025

Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance A bored child is not a broken child. Real-Life Parallel: At K12 Schools, students often take on interdisciplinary projects where they’re not told what to do, just what problem to solve. Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity. Not all boredom is useful.

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