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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. Not just because of distance learning but because of the logical step to advance skills from block coding to programming,” said Ben Durham , technology teacher for Portland Public Schools.

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Skipping the screen: A virtual lesson from Hong Kong

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In that time Hong Kong International School (HKIS) has delivered over 200 hours of daily lessons online, across all subjects, from language arts to culinary arts, PE to science, religion to Chinese. But a couple of Wednesdays a month, middle school students at HKIS push aside their laptops and turn off their tablets.

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Discovery Museum Celebrates 30 Years of Delivering Hands-On Science in Elementary School Classrooms

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Museum educators deliver twenty-three STEM topics, including Sound, Weather & Climate, Physical Changes of Matter, and Force & Motion, to give elementary and middle school students direct experience with how things work in the physical world. And, [TSW] connects kids as they work together—even if they speak different languages.

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Carolina Biological Products Named Best-in-Class for K to 12 Science Teaching and Learning in National STEM Awards

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Awards have been earned in such subjects as elementary and middle-school science, biology, chemistry, physical science, environmental science, career technical education (CTE), and anatomy and physiology. This recognition reaffirms our commitment to revolutionizing education through innovation and hybrid learning solutions.

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Lexia Learning’s PowerUp Literacy Program is 2.5x More Effective in Helping English Learners Close Critical Reading Gaps

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Many English Learners (ELs) across the United States have gone months without exposure to the academic English they require for success in school and that they would normally receive in formal education settings. times more effective than typical interventions for both EL and non-EL middle school students.

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Special Ed Students Have Lost Many Services. Here’s How SEL Strategies Can Help.

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This is the first of a three-part series looking at how social-emotional learning strategies can support teachers of students with learning differences during the pandemic. The necessary and rapid move to distance learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been disabling for our education system.

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International Education During the Pandemic

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As it was, Italy also had similar issues with distance learning. In a comprehensive article written for BMC Public Health Distance learning in Italian primary and middle school children during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national survey , the study revealed gaps in access. Scarpellini, F., Cartabia, M.

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