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Why Every Student Deserves a Robust Arts Education

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Arts education belongs in every student’s curriculum — and not just because the arts can improve skills in other content areas. As an instrumental music teacher, I am used to advocating that the arts are essential to all students even though they may not be classified as a core subject. Kennedy’s support for the arts in America.

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3 ways to strategically incorporate creativity in schools

eSchool News

As the arts integration officer of Prince George’s County Public Schools in Maryland, it is the duty of my office to implement arts-integration strategies throughout this very large school system. Utilize the resources in the educational and arts communities to build creative capacity of the teams.

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How to Prepare Students for Jobs in the Self-Driving-Car-Industry

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That painfully obvious pun is actually one of the truest things you can say about this nascent, multidisciplinary enterprise, and it also encapsulates the challenge educators who want to prepare their students to work in this industry are facing today. And our robotics engineering program is inherently multidisciplinary.

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5 Ways K–12 Teachers Can Take a New Approach to Computational Thinking

EdTech Magazine

To help teachers with this multidisciplinary approach, the final draft of ISTE’s STEM teaching guidelines cover the five different roles educators play in the classroom: . ISTE encourages teachers to design curricula that put data into students’ hands to create art projects or solve global problems.

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Gale and Utah State Library Partner to Provide Residents Free Access to New Digital Resources

eSchool News

Gale In Context student databases : 7 multidisciplinary, multi-source type databases covering elementary, middle, high school, environmental studies, biographical info, science and a wide range of viewpoints on todays social issues.

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Why Old Arguments for Earning a Diploma Don't Resonate With My Students — and Which Ones Will

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Another recent graduate, a talented, multidisciplinary artist, was recently featured in one of the most prominent art spaces in the city — and is currently publishing his first magazine.

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What Is Missing From Our Curricula?

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The answer, as he explains in “ The Checklist Manifesto ,” is a multidisciplinary profession known as structural engineering. For example, Nepris , a Houston-based company, connects professionals in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) fields to classrooms to give lessons related to their jobs.