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James Mills (left) and Kaiya Everett (right), two sixth grade students at DPA designing websites to host their original trivia games. Emily Tate / EdSurge) An expressed goal of the school, Ashton said, is to have 100 percent of students pass the AP Computer Science Principles exam by the end of 10th grade. “We

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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.’ OER] is not just a PDF anymore.”

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It is for this very reason that SEL hasn’t traditionally played a prominent role in curriculum design. And its near-absence in the school models of yesterday underscores its importance in the effective implementation of personalized learning plans in tomorrow’s schools.

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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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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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But before she could drag herself to the nurse’s office, she had to find someone to watch her sixth grade class. She watched her school climate turn increasingly anti-teacher, as workloads surged and parents accused them of indoctrinating students, taking cues from right-wing talking points like critical race theory.

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