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Hundreds of STEM Grants Have Been Terminated. K-12 Math Educators Will Lose Out

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Its a middle-grade math game in which aliens come to Earth to learn about decimal fractions. Real-World Math Problems Many of the terminated awards had something to do with teaching future elementary and middle school math teachers how to meet the needs of more than one type of student.

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My Greatest Teaching Problem Was Feedback. Here’s How Research Helped Me Solve It.

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I just get up and grade papers. I implemented writing reflections to help students recall their feedback from prior assignments and collaborated with a colleague to develop a teacher guided peer review system, which eventually yielded an app called Floop that made the peer review data visible and simpler to manage.

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Beyond simple search: The benefits of topic browsing in library databases

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Databases are essential for helping middle and high school students understand the value of research, appreciate the importance of validating sources, and make connections between different topics — all of which are necessary for building information literacy skills.

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Science achievement gaps begin as early as kindergarten

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Research indicates math, reading achievement in early grades also influences later science achievement. Their science achievement gaps remained fairly stable from third grade through eighth grade. Morgan, an associate professor of education policy studies at Pennsylvania State University.

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One Idea to Keep Teachers From Quitting — End the Teacher Time Crunch

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At school you teach and support students. At home you answer emails, grade, plan, and analyze data. In it, the report authors list the myriad tasks, in addition to instruction, that teachers do as part of their jobs — meeting with parents, participating in professional development, grading. I grade papers at night.

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SpringMath by Sourcewell Receives Highest Possible Ratings from National Center on Intensive Intervention

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. — SpringMath, an award winning, complete MTSS solution for math, recently received the highest possible rating for fall classification accuracy in every grade submitted to the National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII). Dr. VanDerHeyden is also one of the founders and contributors to the Science of Math movement.

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From English to Automotive Class, Teachers Assign Projects to Combat AI Cheating

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They do try, as Holly Distefano has seen in her middle school English language arts classes. When she poses a question to her seventh graders over her school’s learning platform and watches the live responses roll in, there are times when too many are suspiciously similar. Kids aren’t as sneaky as they think they are.