Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Empower all stakeholders by establishing interdisciplinary teams, including parents, to address specific problems, which often leads to creative solutions. Reorganize key activities: Keep 50 percent of all high school courses for juniors and seniors online.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

Try high school students. These aren’t concepts found in most high-school math textbooks. It’s wildly outside what most students get exposed to in school,” says von Oy. Mashing the arts and math is core to Desmo’s belief that education is interdisciplinary by nature, and subjects should be taught as such.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I was a certified high school math teacher, but like so many of my peers, I also taught advisory—working with students to develop their social skills and help them explore college and career options. The head and the heart are connected, and our schools, curriculum, and education technology should reflect this.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2023

At Indian Prairie School District (IPSD), located just west of Chicago, one of the crucial alignment points—a “north star,” if you will—for the district’s 35 schools is its Portrait of a Graduate profile.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

A diverse, hybrid database containing academic journals and award-winning biographical and contextual materials, LRC supports interdisciplinary approaches to the development of critical thinking skills and information literacy. For more information or to request a trial, visit the Gale Literature Resource Center web page.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

On a memorable morning in my high school civics class, the students—seniors, full of energy—learned about the formation and function of our legislative branch. The effect is further exacerbated in high school, where in many states, students encounter U.S. history and civics to be studied in an interdisciplinary manner.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Those are some of the emotions Mario Herrera’s high school students experienced as they learned about the African diaspora, as part of a two-year pilot for the College Board’s new curriculum on the subject. The complexities of the Diaspora are an excellent fit with AP Seminar’s interdisciplinary research focus. Frustrated.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

However, many high school classrooms still use outdated college and career preparation models, which can leave high school graduates feeling unprepared for their future. This highlights the increasing need for high schools to incorporate career-connected learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2019

In a similar vein, educators say they want students to pay attention in class, something they can’t do if they’re fixated on Instagram, Fortnite or the app du jour. Some of them have no idea how many times they check their phones,” says Yvonne Shiu, the principal of San Mateo High School in California.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It’s popular these days to argue that a pandemic boost of online education will lead to a wave of college closures. But this kind of rhetoric irks Clay Shirky, the vice provost for educational technologies at New York University and an influential voice on how technology is changing our culture.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Shortly after graduation, Sheliya received a full-time job offer based on her efforts in this service-learning project — not a bad outcome for a high school service-learning project. Let’s empower our teachers to lead the way by embracing an interdisciplinary approach that integrates SEL with service-learning in K-12 education.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Fusion 360 —free CAD software for students and educators. Instructables for Educators —thousands of free STEAM projects. Design Academy —free software, classes and more for high school students and educators. Sketchbook —a drawing app for all devices. How to Build Your Makerspace —an EdSurge guide.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In New Tech Network schools, grades are weighted according to five categories. At my New Tech high school in Columbus, Indiana , content accounts for 60% of a grade and the other categories (written and oral communication, collaboration, and agency) each garner 10%.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2022

In it, ACT researchers found evidence of grade inflation over the past decade—namely, that the average high school GPA increased 0.19 The implication is that students are not learning as much as their transcripts indicate, hampering their ability to succeed in challenging environments after high school. “We

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2019

When I started out as a high school teacher in the early 2000s, I was using a lot of technology designed for connection. I realized then what’s always been true: meaningful, authentic learning is connected and interdisciplinary by nature, and communities thrive when there’s social care at the core.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2023

Tacy Trowbridge Lead for Global Education Thought Leadership & Advocacy Adobe What importance does creativity play when it comes to college and career pathways? Whether high school graduates transition to college or a career, there is a good chance that they will tap into their creative skills.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

Department of Education and celebrated at a gala in their honor. Now she’s a high school biology and environmental science teacher in Hawaii who integrates lessons about public service into the curriculum. EdSurge spent a morning with the teachers as they toured Smithsonian museums in small groups.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We also found in our analysis that it was especially effective when it was coupled with efforts within high schools to demonstrate voting, to have a registration drive,” Hillygus says. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying voter behavior. We most directly engage education and psychology.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

an educational game that teaches scientific inquiry skills to high school and college students, is powered by a form of AutoTutor. What breakthroughs have allowed you to develop a technology that recognizes emotions? Past McGraw Prize in Education winners include: Reshma Saujani , Founder and CEO, Girls Who Code.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2019

As a high school history teacher with 15 years of experience, this shouldn't have come as a surprise, but something about the way Carlin explained it awakened me that day. In fact, we still talk regularly and are currently co-writing a book about the impact relationships have on education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2019

Among the institute’s first project was designing and implementing a new public middle and high school in New York City. Its instructional model, informed by game-design principles, was less about playing games in schools and more focused on interdisciplinary, experiential learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film about him. In high school, I played sports, but another important part of my life was band and musical theatre. John Branch: I’d say it’s my entertaining style. I think the students are entertained.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

This is the second part of a two-part story looking at how one school is piloting MIT research on playful assessments to measure student growth. We don't have separated subject areas in our school. Everything is interdisciplinary,” explained Stephanie Passman, the lead teacher, during EdSurge’s recent visit to the school.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

It’s designed for students new to the University of Virginia—but not entirely new to higher education. They’re all adults enrolled in the university’s online Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program. At the all-girls boarding high school that Ruth Cady attended in a small Virginia town, she recalls being a middling student.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Holzweiss , a high school educational technology enrichment specialist librarian, shared her tips to help school librarians engage with students, support teachers , and make their school libraries dynamic and welcoming learning spaces. During an ISTELive session , Kristina A.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2016

Another approach would be to create interdisciplinary courses that provide students the opportunity to apply content in meaningful ways. We should also integrate technology to help students determine what local, regional, national, and global problems they want to solve. How will you get involved in that process?

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

Many of them would enjoy the creative problem-solving of engineering—and they won’t know unless they choose, enjoy, and stay involved in engineering coursework during middle and high school. Encouraging diverse participation in STEM in middle school is crucial. That’s the teacher’s job.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2016

In 2012 I, along with a group of like-minded colleagues, signed up to take on an audacious goal: we helped open New York City’s first public high school focused on computing. Our advisory program ensures that each student has a teacher who knows his or her family and tracks academic progress throughout their high school career.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a Friday morning in March, students and teachers gathered at a hip hotel here to reimagine what their high schools could be. The delegation from Calvin Coolidge High School was thinking big — as in, global. Yet measuring whether a redesigned high school is working as intended, and why, is difficult to do.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

When Neosho Junior High School teachers and students moved into a sleek, new campus last August, they said goodbye to traditional classrooms and hello to modern learning spaces that encourage mobility, collaboration and new ways of learning. The new school in Neosho, Mo., This is the next revolution in education,” Johnson says.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

He tells me about his journey into the movement, how he drew himself out and how the experience shaped what he is doing now, after graduating high school. I took my gun out of my holster and shot until I couldn’t shoot” Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School (FLHF) is a portfolio curriculum school located in Bronx, N.Y.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In addition, the district is running its own version of the program for ten other schools in the district in hopes that others will follow a similar path. Were there any elements that all the participants wanted to introduce to their schools? They are all keen to use technology to help personalize learning for students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2020

One school that has already adopted this mindset is the New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies, a public high school led by principal Brooke Jackson. In response to COVID-19, the students at the Lab School have been organized into intimate, amphibious squads that can function either in person or at a distance.

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