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5 approaches that engage middle school students in STEM learning

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STEM storytelling combines language arts with STEM, enhancing students’ understanding of scientific impact through a historical or personal lens. Teachers can then incorporate these topics into the curriculum or design small projects based on students’ inquiries.

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How to integrate environmental concepts into every subject

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My goal became connecting students to nature through their passions and connecting teachers standards-driven curriculum to nature through environmental literacy. One of my earliest projects as the Director of Environmental Education for a public school district in New York was in a middle school English Language Arts classroom.

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Blackbird Announces First-ever Purpose-built Middle School Coding Education Platform

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Created to Address the “Middle School Gap” – Blackbird Teaches Real-world Computer Science Skills, Aligned to Educational Standards. The Blackbird system and curriculum was a perfect fit to our mission,” said Endla Thornton, founder and executive director, The Girls’ Place Chicago. “As Blackbird Education Platform: ?

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An OER curriculum brings my students’ lives into our classroom

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In fact, some of the most powerful learning in my middle school science classroom has happened when I’ve pretended to NOT know the “right answer.” Teaching in this way requires a good deal of flexibility—including in your curriculum. Now that I’ve been a teacher for 15 years, I know this simply isn’t true.

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How one middle school is closing the technology achievement gap

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s first computer science middle school last year in a struggling, historically black community to help bridge the technology achievement gap. One component of working with middle school students that continues to push my thinking around the work we are doing is the challenges and obstacles our scholars face outside of school.

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Reimagining attendance: A curriculum approach for K-12 students and parents

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But what if we reimagined attendance not just as a policy to enforce, but as an essential part of the curriculum for both students and parents? This paradigm shift could revolutionize how schools, students, and families approach this critical aspect of education. Here’s why we should consider attendance as part of the curriculum.

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Carnegie Learning Middle School Math Solution Receives Perfect Scores from EdReports.org

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PITTSBURGH, PA – Carnegie Learning , a leader in artificial intelligence for K-12 education and formative assessment, today announced that its blended core Middle School Math Solution received perfect scores in a new report published by EdReports.org. Do they help teachers build productive habits of mind in their students?