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Showfloor News: PBLWorks creates PBLWorks TEACH to help scale project based learning

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The Buck Institute for Education (dba PBLWorks ), a national provider of professional development for high-quality Project Based Learning (PBL), is launching PBLWorks TEACH , a web-based application with ready-to-use, standards-aligned, Gold-Standard PBL projects for middle school math, science, English Language Arts, and social studies.

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Only 1 in 8 elementary teacher prep programs adequately teach math

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10 course credits) to elementary mathematics: 105 hours on mathematics content and 45 hours on how to teach math (i.e., More than 80 percent of graduate programs earn an F grade for their math preparation. Too many students are falling behind in their math skills, limiting their academic success and future economic opportunities.

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Teaching Creativity and Durable Skills in an AI World

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Johnsrud: There’s always been awareness that the careers of tomorrow are out of sync with what we are teaching today. The goal wasn’t just to pick a tool, but to teach students to be critical consumers. With AI, it’s the same: We need to teach students to “read the nutrition label” before they consume AI content.

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5 online resources to beat the summer slide

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Its summer learning programs provide structured plans for students in grades K-12, including daily activities tailored by grade level. ReadWorks is a nonprofit platform offering free, research-based reading comprehension materials for grades K-12. Parents can access dashboards to track progress and set goals over the summer.

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How to integrate environmental concepts into every subject

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Through this single activity, students across grade levels showed statistically significant improvement in moods; decreases in stress; increased connections to themselves, others, and nature; and an increased understanding of how humans affect the environment. The results were remarkable.

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An AI Wish List From Teachers: What They Actually Want It to Do

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While edtech vendors race to integrate AI into every aspect of teaching and learning, educators are drawing clearer boundaries: AI should save them time, not replace their judgment. Most of all, they want tools that align with the values and realities of teaching. Grading, especially, is viewed with skepticism. Relationships. “At

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My Journey in Alternative Grading: From Curiosity to Clarity

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I failed to appreciate the value of clear expectations and the inescapable necessity that my students needed to walk out of my class with a grade. For the next four years, I used Kevin Gannons grading contract to implement more structure and Barbara Schapiros third space to reflect on what worked for me and my students.

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