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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Her experiences couldn’t be further away from the examples her elementary school books centered on?farming. It’s a good combination of community and equity and purposeful curriculum design,” Egan says. As a little girl, I’m like, ‘I don't know what’s happening on the farm.’

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is a particularly challenging aspect of any educational plan, as it deals with the kind of character traits that are most difficult to monitor and measure in students—social awareness, self-efficacy, stress management, decision making, interpersonal behavior, and relationship building.

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MAY 13, 2019

In early May, students were finishing up a website design unit in their computer science class, which follows the curriculum designed by RePublic Schools , a charter school network based in Nashville, Tenn. Before she came to Digital Pioneers Academy, Senora had a tough time at school, Ashton said.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Many years before formally learning about how gears work, playing with gears “did more mathematical development than anything I was taught in elementary school,” he wrote, noting that he later created mental gear-driven multiplication tables and equations with variables. Did you ever hear about a game advertised as being easy?

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The network began the Greenfield Schools design project to research what the future of school could be, with the goal of opening two new schools in 2015—an elementary school and a middle school. The first Greenfield Schools launched in August 2015 in New Haven, CT.

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MAY 2, 2022

And then there was Stephanie Hughes, who taught elementary school in North Carolina for four years before moving to Indiana this past summer. Some of her clients do want to stay in education, as teacher coaches, curriculum designers or to work for education technology companies, often in sales and customer support roles.

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