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Changing culture through interdisciplinary STEM learning

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However, the process of implementing deep change may take three to five years, because it impacts the way schools do business, as well as fundamental school culture. Our aim is to emphasize computational thinking and computer science skills, ensure math performance is consistent, and incorporate more real-world, interdisciplinary learning.

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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. Girls who know how to lead, who understand their strengths, and who carry those skills with them into the world.

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5 approaches that engage middle school students in STEM learning

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This process reinforces scientific inquiry and builds critical thinking skills as students see, touch, and analyze real results from their experiments. Here are five strategies teachers can take to make STEM come alive in their classrooms. Teachers can encourage students to make predictions, hypothesize outcomes, and document results.

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Graduate Students Want to Solve ‘Wicked Problems.’ Are Universities Delivering?

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Graduate education—with its specialization, close access to faculty members, and opportunities for deep learning—ought to help with this kind of interdisciplinary training. Do graduate students themselves want to pursue interdisciplinary aims and become “wicked”? Those who have enrolled in intentionally interdisciplinary Ph.D.

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The Kiski School: A Transformative Boarding School Experience Rooted in Tradition

k12 Digest

The school integrates leadership development, life skills, and hands-on learning experiences to ensure students leave not just prepared for college, but ready to take on the world. Students explore science in modern labs, develop potent creative tools in the schools inspiring arts students, and build real skills in Kiskis workshops.

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Why STEM education could get a transformative makeover—soon

eSchool News

Engaging young children in STEM is critical for creating a lifelong love of learning and for developing critical thinking skills which will serve them well across all academic disciplines and prepare them for the 21st Century workforce. The details of the ultimate goal remain flexible and will change continuously throughout development.

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The STEM Careers Coalition Celebrates Manufacturing Day with Resources to Inspire the Creators, Doers, Makers, and Makers of Tomorrow in the Classrooms of Today

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With the need to fill 4 million high-tech and high-skill positions in manufacturing over the next several years, MFG Day—which this year is observed on October 1 st —helps inspire today’s students to become the creators, doers, and makers leading the manufacturing industry of tomorrow.

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