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

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These arent just digital skillstheyre life skills. They begin tackling real problems, building research skills, and learning how to think for themselves. The IBs interdisciplinary structure plays a key role. For students drawn to the arts, Elmwood shines just as brightly.

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4 ways a STEAM-centered curriculum is critical to youth education

eSchool News

The global health crisis forced students out of the physical classroom and into a new virtual world for nearly two grades, and their initial homework and test scores reveal a significant decrease in knowledge transfer, social skills, and core learning habits across a variety of subjects.

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Meet The Newest Liberal Art: Coding

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When coding shows up in the curriculum of a liberal arts program, its primary purpose is usually pretty obvious: help students get hired. These efforts are often described as attempts to “ help non-computer science students build the tech skills required for today’s jobs ” so that they are ultimately “ more employable. ”

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Blending Art and Algorithms, Desmos Sets Out to Reimagine Math Curriculum

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It’s an art competition unlike most others. We believe that the line between math, arts and humanities is a lot blurrier than what most people make it out to be,” says Luberoff. Mashing the arts and math is core to Desmo’s belief that education is interdisciplinary by nature, and subjects should be taught as such.

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Friday 5: STEAM education in action

eSchool News

Makerspaces are a great example of STEAM learning, letting students combine creativity and art elements into more traditional STEM topics. These skills–often referred to as soft skills, but also known as durable skills for their importance in the workplace–are a focus of 21st-century classrooms.

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5 approaches that engage middle school students in STEM learning

eSchool News

This process reinforces scientific inquiry and builds critical thinking skills as students see, touch, and analyze real results from their experiments. STEM storytelling combines language arts with STEM, enhancing students’ understanding of scientific impact through a historical or personal lens.

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The state of K-12 makerspaces—and how to create one in your library

eSchool News

More than half of today’s students will hold jobs that don’t yet exist today, which is why it is critically important for students to develop 21st-century skills such as creativity and problem solving.