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This tech academy is using project-based learning to close the STEM gap

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“Part of our curriculum design is project-based learning. We try to design our curriculum around how the real world functions,” said Linnea Garrett, ChiTech school director. “We really believe we can ground meaning behind the curriculum when there are real-world applications.

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STEM teaching toolkit supports deeper learning

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A new STEM teaching toolkit from the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF) aims to improve curriculum design through authentic, collaborative, project-based learning experiences. New NCTAF toolkit intends to help educators integrate instruction with new science standards, STEM concepts. News STEM Top News'

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Mesa Public Schools and S.A.V.E. Consortium Name CoderZ as Approved Vendor

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The suite includes scaffolded and leveled, standards-aligned curriculum designed to support STEM, computer science, coding, robotics, and SEL in engaging ways, and to embrace all learners from any and every background. The courses and curriculum engage students in solving gamified challenges by coding a virtual robot.

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Friday 5: STEAM education in action

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But with a STEAM -centered curriculum, students are trained to introduce design, agile thinking, and creative solutions to solve social and scientific problems and bring new inventions to fruition. So, what’s the impact of STEAM education?

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How to Engage Your Students With the 12-Minute Rule and Quizzes They’re Meant to Fail

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By marrying those two things together—the curriculum design, which is very engineering-like, and the classroom performance, which is very artistic—you get the John Branch combination. PEEK INSIDE COLLEGE CLASSROOMS: Discover interdisciplinary teaching insights from our growing community of college educators.

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Solving for X and Y in a School Focused on Math and Computer Science

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On the surface it appeared simple enough, mathematics and computer science should be natural partners—the low hanging fruit of interdisciplinary computer science education. For computer science , this means we have done a tremendous amount of in-house curriculum design.

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From Personalized Math to Micro-Schools, This NewSchools Cohort Is Reimagining Learning

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They entered the program with a real desire to focus deeply on what it meant to have a more effective personalized learning experience in math—including everything from curriculum design and the use of technology to the roles of teachers and students in the classroom and the adoption of “passion projects.”

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