eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

ANDERSON, S.C. –– Roylco, a leading innovator in manufacturing educational kids’ toys, proudly announces its recent accolade as “Best STEM Building Toy” in Good Housekeeping’s expert-rating “16 Best Building Toys for Kids, According to Experts.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

With science and technology jobs expected to grow twice as fast as other occupations over the next decade amid rapidly shifting demographics , creating a robust and diverse pipeline into STEM fields is essential to ensuring U.S. But neither will happen unless we address the fundamental gatekeeper to all STEM fields: undergraduate calculus.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It’s a common belief that testing anxiety affects only older students, such as those taking high school or college placement exams. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America , this anxiety can stem from a fear of failure, negative testing experiences, or feeling unprepared.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2025

To me, math identity is the belief in ones ability to do math and use it in life. They come into our classrooms with beliefs, experiences, attitudes, and feelings about math that shape how they show up in our classrooms. Embracing not knowing helps foster the belief that every student is a deserving, capable learner of math.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The STEM Careers Coalition – the first-of-its-kind national STEM initiative powered by corporate leaders and anchored in schools by Discovery Education – marks its first anniversary by welcoming new members to the growing coalition and by offering educators, students, and families nationwide access to a host of new, no-cost digital resources.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

At Newington Public Schools (NPS) in Connecticut, the belief in all students is at the heart of every decision we make. Believing in every student, and enacting initiatives that demonstrate that belief. We’ve become a leader in STEM Education by changing the way we structure schools. The secret to our success? Let me explain.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

With careers of the future heavily concentrated in STEM fields, it’s unacceptable for women to be left out of the space. Not only do employers need to have the largest possible pool of qualified STEM workers to succeed, business outcomes improve with a diverse workforce. We need more female STEM mentors and role models!

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2025

At the same time, schools are working to reverse learning losses stemming from the pandemic. Psychologists call this deeper kind of fulfillment eudaimonia –a sense of meaning, purpose, and the belief that what you do truly matters. The latest NAEP scores show declines in reading and math among fourth and eighth graders.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Cultivating Students’ Lifelong Learning and Career Exploration A core belief of PLTW is that students can’t be what they can’t see. PLTW has heard from students regarding how valuable their courses are because they help expose them to and engage them in STEM subjects and prepare them for life beyond K-12.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

However, despite this belief, 81 percent of parents either don’t believe or are not sure that AI is even part of their children’s curriculum. This new survey by Samsung Solve for Tomorrow was sparked by the increasing use of AI in the innovative community solutions submitted by school teams to our annual public school STEM competition.

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eSchool News

JULY 24, 2024

However, educators said changing traditional beliefs about what education looks like is the #1 hurdle to implementing more personalized learning models, showing that many leaders recognize the need for personalized learning but struggle with how to shift traditional views.

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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

MARCH 18, 2024

Excel in math and you can pursue a wealth of STEM and other rewarding careers. This mindset and belief system could not be further from the truth. The problem for many struggling math students is that often those “universal” numbers and symbols hide in surrounding contexts of unfamiliar vocabulary, settings, and narratives.

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2021

The companies will bring expert instruction in STEM fields to individuals worldwide,with a shared goal of bridging the STEM opportunity gap. STEM career opportunities are projected to grow exponentially, with an estimated 3.5 million jobs in the U.S. alone that need to be filled by 2025.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2022

They are distant during class, uninterested in engaging with the material, and their beliefs confirmed every time they get a question wrong – “I can’t do math.” How can teachers combat this belief? Picture this: a student enters your classroom, a negative attitude at the ready.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Acton, MA – Discovery Museum announced a 30-year milestone for its in-school STEM program, Traveling Science Workshops, having delivered hands-on science to more than half a million PreK through 8 th grade students from hundreds of communities throughout Massachusetts since the program began in 1992.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2024

Quijada said his teacher’s belief that he could succeed allowed him to challenge himself in ways he might not have otherwise considered. I typically teach STEM classes for electives, but we have been working to expose students to more holistic experiences, so I requested to teach drumming.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 2, 2025

It was a way to rekindle hope, driven by the belief that we must do better. Students mental health struggles often stem from physical and emotional abuse, bullying, substance abuse, and basic needs like housing and food insecurity. That was my call to action. As I grieved, I co-founded an organization called Safe and Sound Schools.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2022

Many of Bluum’s 775 employees stem from education, providing first-hand experience and unrivaled knowledge to their former colleagues. Our company’s growth has occurred through mergers and acquisitions, as well as organically, more than tripling our revenue over the past three years,” Bluum CEO Erez Pikar said.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

One of my most eye-opening experiences was watching a teacher use technology to point out the parts of a leaf on screen rather than taking her first-graders outside to explore the pile of leaves right outside her window–all because the district ingrained in her the belief that technology was a non-negotiable.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2017

We want to include STEM opportunities; let’s host an Hour of Code.”. “We As such, we all—regardless of community, economy, demographic, age or any other data point—are compelled by one factor: belief. “Our survey showed that our parents don’t feel a strong sense of involvement with our campus. We need more PTO involvement.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2020

In today’s world, STEM skills are in higher demand than ever before. There’s a general belief that teaching students to code will set them on a journey towards a prestigious career at a big tech company, or maybe even as founders of the next Google or Facebook. This is especially the case when it comes to computer science.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

It is a commonly-held belief that algebraic concepts are directly related to critical thinking skills. And yet, it has long been reported by Brookings (Loveless, 2008) and others like the Algebra Project (Moses, 2001) that Algebra I is the gatekeeper to higher level math classes, higher education success, and careers in the technical fields.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This innovative collaboration offers students and educators digital resources that explore STEM, life skills, and career opportunities, while also addressing topics of teamwork and sustainability. LIV to Learn is a key component of the LIV Golf Potential, Unleashed Impact Strategy which aims to positively impact 5.4 million young people.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

With a strong belief in exploration, experimentation, and education, the Crockett Foundation can inspire the next generation of inventors, technical entrepreneurs, engineers, and designers–the next generation of innovators and explorers. What could happen if they have the right console, an extra laptop, a smart TV, or a drone?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

We told the kids it’s OK to think big and have great ideas, and Philip reinforced this belief by explaining that he “never met a kid who can’t compose.”. They engaged so well that Philip, Russell, and I decided to dream up a collaborative composition project right then and there: We called it the Ostinato Project.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2023

Unpopular with students, the class didn’t seem to be preparing them for a career in STEM. But in the end, the results almost beggared belief, according to those at the college. A lot of those students are people who might not have stuck it out in STEM, according to the study. A Barrier to STEM?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Oftentimes, students enroll in degrees out of a misguided belief that some degrees are more practical than others. STEM-oriented degrees usually champion transferable skills, too, meaning your student will be set up to succeed as the world of work changes.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

As a society ever more reliant on technology and STEM-based careers, we must shatter the myth that math skill is inborn and reinforce that it is the result of intention and practice. This belief is wrong. Change the belief that mathematical ability is inborn, focusing on parents’ attitudes and how they are communicated to children.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Keywords: Active Learning, Think-Pair-Share, STEM Background Introductory undergraduate STEM classes are notoriously painful experiences, both for the students and for the teacher. Discussion Questions: Reflect on your challenges in teaching a large STEM class. Image courtesy of This Is Engineering, Unsplash.

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

This recognition reflects our shared commitment to empowering students through hands-on, real-world STEM learning and I hope it inspires other educators to take bold steps toward innovation and opportunity for all learners, said Cheser. Im deeply honored to accept this award on behalf of our incredible team.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

Even among African-Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans who have STEM degrees, only 30 percent have STEM-related careers. These women are not dropping out of the workforce; they are switching to non-STEM careers.

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eSchool News

MAY 4, 2022

They found that attitudes, beliefs, and emotions are the major influencers. We inspire students’ desire to learn by making them feel important, leading by example, praising their successes, and developing their confidence. Ma and Kishor ( 1997 ) found evidence of the impact of attitude to mathematics on attainment.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2019

Even among African-Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans who have STEM degrees, only 30 percent have STEM-related careers. One’s belief that they are capable comes from experiences that affirm that belief, and the more rigorous and aspirational one’s accomplishments the stronger the fountain of affirmation to draw from.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Espoused Values and Beliefs The first source of information ought to come from your espoused values and beliefs. When you go back and revisit your writing on the subject, how well does it align with your beliefs now? Ultimately, we want to determine how effectively we articulate our beliefs and in what contexts.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In a particularly jarring study by Sian Beilock, girls in first and second grade classrooms with female teachers high in math anxiety had lower achievement in math and held more stereotyped beliefs about girls' abilities. Math anxiety is a corrosive agent in the STEM talent pipeline.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Every such story reinforces my belief that one of the biggest areas of focus for any government should be the education of its children. I’ve had many students over the years who were struggling or came from extremely humble backgrounds when I first met them.

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