eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Department of Labor , in 2021, there were nearly 10 million workers in STEM occupations–a total projected to grow by almost 11 percent by 2031. Department of Labor , in 2021, there were nearly 10 million workers in STEM occupations–a total projected to grow by almost 11 percent by 2031. According to the U.S.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2022

The following selection of no-cost digital resources created with social impact partners connect families to engaging learning experiences: Inspire the next generation of solution seekers with STEM and math-specific family activities from the STEM Careers Coalition. The contest is open through June 17, 2022.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Black/African American students, Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx students, and Native American/Alaskan students are less likely to attend a high school that offers foundational computer science.

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JULY 24, 2019

Moak’s goal is to ignite a similar passion in her students so that they can see the magic of STEM in their everyday lives—and thereby be motivated to pursue a job in a STEM field. Elementary science instruction often takes a back seat to math and reading and receives little time in the school day. Why Care About STEM?

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

Increasingly, makerspaces are helping students sustain interest in STEM fields. Robert Pronovost, the science, technology, engineering and math coordinator at the Ravenswood City School District (Calif.), has a mission: to spark student interest in those topics by bringing tech-filled “makerspaces” to low-income schools.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2016

Districts in the League have committed to developing thoughtful, long-term solutions to overcome the obstacles that many populations of students face one of the world’s most important languages. The degree, free of charge, prepares teachers to integrate STEM strategies into classroom instruction with a focus on CS integration.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

The report also details the extent to which students are separated based on their perceived math abilities, starting as young as elementary school. More than 40% of elementary school principals told RAND researchers that their school grouped kids based on their math levels, mostly within the classroom.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2021

Based around Blackbird’s proprietary educational version of JavaScript, Blackbird provides students, even those who have not been drawn to STEM or coding, with an understanding and aptitude in one of the most commonly used programming languages on earth.

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eSchool News

JULY 12, 2016

The new 2016 curriculum adds 3 new Javascript courses, 12 STEM programming courses, and a course on drone programming in partnership with Parrot, one of the world’s leading civil drone companies. “To STEM Courses and Project-Based Learning. 12 STEM courses are included for grades 3-8.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources. Cleveland successfully secured funding to expand to these 25 elementary schools, bringing Hazel services to more than 25,000 additional students in the district. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2024

In a time when technological advancements shape our daily lives and drive economic growth, focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education in K-12 schools is not just a trend but a necessity. EdSurge: What experiences laid the foundation for your role as a leader in STEM education in NYC Public Schools?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The eSchool News Hero Awards , honors educators for their exemplary use of innovative edtech to support student learning: John Arthur , 6th grade teacher at Meadowlark Elementary School in Salt Lake City, Utah Dr. Jesus Jara , superintendent of Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada Tom Lamont , painting and design technology instructor at Blackstone (..)

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

–James Hood, Principal, Rodburn Elementary School , Rowan County Schools The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are transforming the educational landscape, ushering in a more integrated and dynamic approach to teaching and learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Piedmont City School District is a remote, rural part of northeast Alabama. It is difficult for the 1,200-student district to offer STEM, foreign language or Advanced Placement courses year-round. Many students’ families could not afford computers, or even an internet connection.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The lack of computer science technology educators in middle schools continues to be a genuine crisis, especially considering the critical role of STEM education in preparing students for future careers. If you’re a computer science educator, you go teach in high school or university. 00:08:29 Speaker 1 Stem.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2019

Code.org ’s free online courses teach programming languages or how to create games, apps, and websites. Katie Blagden, K-4 STEAM educator and coach, Ayers Ryal Side Elementary School, Beverly, Mass. Milo has also provided us a common language to use with students that we are starting to use throughout the school.”.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

As our countrys workforce changes rapidly and demand for specialized skills (especially in STEM fields) grows, traditional college and career preparation models are becoming outdated. In 2025, schools will continue to face the challenge of recovering science achievement, particularly for older students and historically marginalized students.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Code Studio offers a 20 hour-long coding course for elementary school students. Scratch is a free programming language, developed at the MIT Media Lab. (A similar app, Adventure Time Game Wizard , was made available earlier this year for iOS and Android.). Other coding resources for younger students.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

As these tools become more integrated into the classroom, teachers will want to ensure that all students, including those with disabilities or language barriers, are being supported. Schools are realizing that many of their teachers were not taught this approach to instruction. –Jason Carroll, Chief Product Officer, Texthelp.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

In 2013, I was hired to teach computer science (CS) and video game design to students in grades K-5 at Monte Sano Elementary School in Huntsville, Ala. A year earlier, I had graduated with a teaching degree in elementary education. It was my first full-time teaching job. I decided I was well-positioned to help make a change.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2024

Careful Language Even the education leaders pushing for measures to keep AI from displacing educators have gone out of their way to note that the technology could have beneficial applications in education. They're being cautious about the language they use to ensure they're not prohibiting the use of AI altogether.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next is a free after-school program designed to make tech more accessible to students of color, many of whom lack opportunities to explore STEM fields in middle and high school. It's like kids are already getting knocked out for the count in elementary school.” And that in turn affects people’s career choices.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In addition to the challenge of quickly adapting her teaching, Claffey also encountered an unexpected frustration: a class size of 60, featuring students from every elementary school in the district, which was later reduced to around 50 as new teachers were added. Claffey says. What does the research say on that?”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Using Wakelet, school librarians can work with librarians in their district–or even across the state or country–to draw attention to important resources in the library, offer research tips, and motivate students. Translation technologies can be included for students and parents whose native language is not English.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2019

The public charter school provides every student with a Chromebook and purchases licenses to online curricula for subjects including English language arts, math and computer science. Trenisha Goslee is a STEM teacher at DPA. Then they transitioned to more advanced coding languages. She recently moved to D.C. She hated it.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Students built the app using R, an open source programming language. Wong says her team realized through those conversations that high schools and elementary schools had plenty of data-literacy resources to draw from. It was middle school that experienced a gap. Census Bureau.

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Teach Hub

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

My teacher was a wonderful lady who was originally from Columbia and provided her students with knowledge of the culture, dialect, and the best ways to communicate through her language. My experience of learning a foreign language was eye-opening, exciting, and rewarding. What do Foreign Language Classes Typically Look Like in Schools?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Keara Phipps, an elementary school teacher from Atlanta, says that TeachFX showed her she “talked too much” in her classes. The makers of these AI tools believe that technology can help stem the tide out of the profession. Large language models can analyze classroom discussions at scale.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2017

Perry elementary school in Brooklyn, NY. Problems (that we all know about) Educators across the globe are increasingly familiar with the staggering statistics: Between 2010 and 2020, STEM jobs growth will outpace all other jobs at 1 8.7% , leading to an estimated 1.1 “I can barely fix a printer. million computing jobs by 2024.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

As these tools become more integrated into the classroom, teachers will want to ensure that all students, including those with disabilities or language barriers, are being supported. Schools are realizing that many of their teachers were not taught this approach to instruction. –Jason Carroll, Chief Product Officer, Texthelp.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Piedmont City School District is a remote, rural part of northeast Alabama. It is difficult for the 1,200-student district to offer STEM, foreign language or Advanced Placement courses year-round. Many students’ families could not afford computers, or even an internet connection.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Last year, we focused as a group on instructional strategies—introducing teachers to a common language around “think time,” quality questioning, formative assessment and feedback. Several years ago, one of our elementary schools began to use data notebooks with their students. Data notebooks are a pretty simple concept.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

PHOENIX – ASU Prep Pilgrim Rest announced a new partnership with Dreamscape Learn , making it the first elementary school in the country to offer students a dynamic new learning experience that blends the power of experiential pedagogy, cinematic engagement, and advanced virtual reality (VR) technology.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2018

In my role as an instructional science coach for the Redwood City School District, I lead the district’s STEAM program at John Gill Elementary School, a Title 1 school located in the heart of Silicon Valley. It’s less important that they master all the different uses of the computer programming language.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2022

Since then, our game-based learning platform has been used to teach over 20 million students real-typed Python, JavaScript and C++ coding languages through the power of play. Learning the language of code is not unlike learning any other language. Scaffolded curriculum provides a clear path for young learners.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential. Diane Myers, Ph.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

That’s the first word that Anna Kwan, a K-5 STEM teacher at a public school in Aurora, Colo., Elementary school educators were more likely than secondary school educators to allow students relatively unstructured time to experiment with physical materials, often in the form of manipulatives. Watch your language.

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