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STEM teaching toolkit supports deeper learning

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New NCTAF toolkit intends to help educators integrate instruction with new science standards, STEM concepts. 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.

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

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While ChiTech, as the school is known, aims to help students become leaders, it also seeks to increase the number of minority and low-income students pursuing STEM in college and the workforce. “Part of our curriculum design is project-based learning. We try to guide students through interdisciplinary work.”

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Friday 5: STEAM education in action

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Makerspaces are a great example of STEAM learning, letting students combine creativity and art elements into more traditional STEM topics. As STEM has risen in prominence over the past decade, arts education has yet to achieve the same recognition and integration. Here’s why creativity is essential in today’s curriculum.

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

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members, can implement our well-structured and inclusive curriculum with the knowledge that the program meets and exceeds the requirements to become an integral component of a school’s STEM implementation.”. The courses and curriculum engage students in solving gamified challenges by coding a virtual robot. consortium. “We

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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 had already begun a process of designing a new middle school, called Nexus Middle School, to be a STEM-based school that incorporated personalized learning. There’s a consistent theme around interdisciplinary learning, trying to figure out how to more effectively collaborate across different subject areas.

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