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In the marketplace: Minecraft Education Edition, apps for ELLs, digital citizenship, and more

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Learning Upgrade , an ed-tech company providing digital, differentiated literacy curriculum designed for English language learners (ELLs), launched a mobile app to increase accessibility and expand offerings to a wide range of English learners.

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Curious About Place-Based Education? Let the STAR School Be Your Guide

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The school is completely “off the grid,” powered by solar panels and wind generators. The curriculum, designed to serve the school’s exclusively Native population, emphasizes Navajo language and culture as much as it does the Common Core standards. For her, it's that connection that keeps them reading.

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How Transcend Education Partners with School Leaders to Build New Models

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This profile is the fourth in a series from the EdSurge Research team, which has spent the past six months studying the market of service providers that support schools through the redesign process. Bringing about change in schools is complex. The first Greenfield Schools launched in August 2015 in New Haven, CT.

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10 Ways to Make School Fun Again

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According to a University of Colorado study, incorporating game elements into e-learning environments can boost engagement and performance by as much as 89 percent. Real School Example One middle school teacher at K12 Schools designed a Grammar Quest for English class.

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Independent Study Finds that Amplify Science Has Significant Positive Impact on Student Learning

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More than 80 percent of teachers agreed that they and their students benefited from using Amplify Science curriculum. The randomized controlled study focused on physical science for grade 7 and included 28 teachers and more than 1700 students across three districts that served diverse populations. About Amplify.

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The project-based STEM curriculum that’s big on real-world rigor

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The curriculum has a strong engineering component, as well as separate units in biomedical science and computer science. It’s a great, great program,” said Emma Haygood, a middle school science teacher for 16 years who moved to the Berrien Springs district office last year to become STEM coordinator. “We They were so engrossed.

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The Mental Health Crisis Causing Teachers to Quit

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She was outside supervising a group of students during a mask break at her middle school in South Berwick, Maine, when she felt a sense of overwhelming dread. Lesley Allen will never know what triggered her final panic attack last fall. Her anxiety spiked, her heart thumped out of her chest and her left arm went numb.

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