Teach Hub

JUNE 10, 2025

Between assignments, end-of-year projects, sports practices, and planning for summer, things can become chaotic quickly—not just for teachers and students but also for parents. Maybe your child wants to boost their math grade, read a certain number of books, or finish the year with fewer missing assignments.

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Cal Matters

JULY 10, 2025

He’d make her stay in the classroom at recess, or tell her to sit on his lap while other students were busy with assignments. Muñoz’s case is one of at least 1,000 lawsuits against California school districts and counties stemming from AB 218 , a sexual abuse reform law that took effect in 2020. No one knew.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Here are five strategies teachers can take to make STEM come alive in their classrooms. Incorporate hands-on activities and experiments Hands-on activities let students engage directly with STEM concepts, making learning tangible and memorable.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In fact, Mercy was the first all-girls school in the country to earn a STEM certification. We became STEM certified in 2016 because we wanted independent verification of our program’s quality. However, rather than convenience, we were looking for certification that aligned with our performance-based courses of study.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2015

Sixth and seventh graders saw improvements in math assessments after using LearnBop in classroom studies, company says. Using both a control group, which did not use LearnBop, and a group that used LearnBop, the study compared the pre- and post-test assessments of more than 800 students. Results of the Efficacy Study can be found here.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Writing Assignments: Writing tasks, whether creative stories, essays, or research papers, require students to think critically, organize their thoughts, write a draft, and revise based on feedback. I’ve even constructed entire units of study in a playlist to allow students to move through it at a pace that works for them.

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eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2025

This program also provides the educator with the ability to assign the same science article to students to read, but at their reading level. Gizmo is an interactive STEM learning experience for grades 3-12. Once the teacher assigns the STEM activity to a class, students can access it immediately.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2019

Moak’s goal is to ignite a similar passion in her students so that they can see the magic of STEM in their everyday lives—and thereby be motivated to pursue a job in a STEM field. In addition to time constraints, we’re limited in how much homework we can assign,” she recently told me. “We Why Care About STEM?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2015

For a while now, schools have been slowly merging science and math lessons with visual arts as a way to add a hands-on component, and perhaps a dash of culture, to ordinary STEM curriculum. It won’t always be possible for STEM and art links to occur at the same point during the school year, and that’s OK. Escher, for instance.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For instance, 29 percent of students said: “Let me do assignments on topics that interest me if they are relevant to what we are learning.” For a history class studying World War II, one student or group might learn about the Normandy invasion, while another might take on the rise of fascism and a third might explore the Pacific front.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

I typically assign a hefty 20-page final project in my STEM course, but I decided to take a more playful and hands-on approach for this group of students. This inspired me to incorporate KIBO into my STEM course for pre-service teachers.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2022

This new name reflects the company’s commitment to provide educators with the tools they need to engage all students with hands-on, socially relevant STEM education and build a STEM-literate society. However, many employers struggle to fill these high-paying jobs due, in part, to low rates of STEM understanding and proficiency.

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2024

A study co-authored by MIT scholars concludes that widely disseminated school quality ratings reflect the preparation and family background of their students as much or more than a school’s contribution to learning gains. Angrist is co-author of a newly published paper detailing the study’s results.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Calculus is a critical on-ramp to careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). While there’s been progress of late, it’s been “uneven” and Black, Hispanic and women workers are still underrepresented in some STEM fields. But getting to those careers means surviving the academic journey.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2024

Challenges of phenomena-based teaching As a science teacher, I help students make connections between concepts and their lives every day, but coming up with phenomena for students to study can be overwhelming.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

Barriers to Effective Transfer and Application of Learning Assigning the same task to all students without offering any choices can significantly hinder the effective transfer and application of learning. Can you suggest creative assignments for grade students to express their learning about ?

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2023

They could succeed in STEM jobs that tend to pay well in industries that are facing pressure to increase the diversity of their workforces. ASU couldn’t test this theory by delivering chemicals to students who study online. But what if instead the university brought remote students to the chemicals — and to campus?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2022

As I recently reviewed some of the videos I have of own instructional practice, I was struck by the massive amounts of paper-based assignments being handed out and collected. Part of my role as the Round Canopy Parachute Team’s Historian is to create and maintain paperless STEM/Social Studies lessons designed for the high school level.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2021

In a study of 554 teachers in the San Antonio area, 60 percent said that students turned in assignments less frequently during distance learning, and 65 percent believed that there were significantly fewer lessons that grabbed the attention of students.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Also, students are now able to participate in independent study programs – focused on citizen science, science communications, and workforce development – designed by Slooh. This includes the ability for students to create custom posters depicting what they discovered using Slooh’s fully autonomous online telescopes.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

Wow, you guys are quick studies.” Such a position can help frame classroom assignments as interdisciplinary tasks and projects that require knowledge from other classes and other subjects. I won’t mind,” he said as he explained the first of several coding problems for the day. That is correct!” “Wow,

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2025

Teachers can assign different scenarios, allowing students to test hypotheses and analyze their results, promoting inquiry-based learning. Do you support student use of AI in school and/or for assignments? A physics teacher covering Newtons Laws can assign Khan Academys AI-driven exercises.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

He still has that concern, but as he stepped back to think about it, he also saw a way to “leverage” the tool for a goal he had long fought for — to help bring social studies education, and especially the teaching of civics, to broader prominence in the nation’s schools. He has long argued that U.S.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

It can help teachers save a tremendous amount of time on administrative tasks like researching and developing lesson plans, creating rubrics for assignments, and communicating with parents–time that can be refocused on students instead. AI has the power to revolutionize education.

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2024

“Interestingly, one in five students would like to see schools offer extracurricular activities to boost their AI skills and experience, while almost as many think it would be helpful if teachers make using generative AI tools mandatory in assignments,” Bliss said.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

For example, a new study published in the journal PNAS Nexus found that, among students who perform poorly in intro STEM classes, those who are underrepresented minorities are even less likely to end up earning STEM degrees than their white, male counterparts. And the pandemic may be exacerbating this situation.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The lack of computer science technology educators in middle schools continues to be a genuine crisis, especially considering the critical role of STEM education in preparing students for future careers. I’ve had conversations about how when you, when you talk about STEM subjects, that it is starting to kind of get younger and younger.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. Video is frequently used for announcements, discussion boards, instruction, and even graded assignments within Blackboard via the Kaltura media tools. Defined STEM. Describe how you used the product.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2017

What has repeatedly snagged her ability to study it, however, has been when homework assignments include charts and graphs that her screen-reading software can’t process. “If The equivalent for me is going to a class and not being able to study the textbook.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

The workforce has undergone significant changes, and today’s jobs require advanced skills and specialized training, particularly in STEM fields. Thus, preparing the next generation of STEM-literate citizens has never been more critical. Vrain Valley School District Career-connected learning will become more important than ever.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Students who took multiple community college courses that used only free or low-cost OER materials earned more credits over time than their peers who took classes that used traditional course materials such as textbooks, according to a new study. Students saved an average of $65 per OER course at colleges participating in the study.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2016

“This is about talking with kids that anyone can be an engineer, and an engineer is like an inventor that has a problem to solve,” said Kari Smith, an Ames math and science teacher on special assignment. The funding for the pilot was awarded to Ames with a grant from the Governor’s STEM Advisory Council.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

Faculty assign homework to expose students to a new concept before they arrive to class, and use class time to ask questions and do more-active learning. If students struggle through the Jupyter assignments in the individual space, Barba isn’t there to help them. He also points out that despite growing research, more is needed.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

21st-century Learning : All students rotate through a suite of classes, including a hands-on STEM class called SmartLab, as well as Global Studies, P.E./Wellness Limited exposure by assigning 1-2 teachers for each learning group. Groups remain in their “Home Base” learning environment with teachers moving, rather than students.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I implemented writing reflections to help students recall their feedback from prior assignments and collaborated with a colleague to develop a teacher guided peer review system, which eventually yielded an app called Floop that made the peer review data visible and simpler to manage. She also found the work of U.K.-based

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2022

It’s an early morning wake up call for Trinity Smith, lead teaching fellow and student studying business data analytics at Arizona State University (ASU). The course uses Canvas to manage the online, asynchronous portion of learning – this includes recorded lectures by ASU faculty, along with weekly assignments and quizzes.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 2, 2025

or Whats your favorite snack during study time? Heres how Numbered Heads Together works online: Assign students to heterogeneous breakout rooms of about four participants. These structures provide clear norms, model academic discourse, and offer embedded scaffolds (like sentence stems) to support learners at all levels.

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