eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It features national and state-level policy and implementation data, focusing on high school data. Eleven states now require students to earn credit in computer science to graduate from high school. public high schools offer foundational computer science (up from 57.5

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

At 16 and 17 years old, Matthew and William graduated from high school with 60 college credits apiece and are now enrolled with honors in their first year at McNeese State University. We as a family credit much of their academic success to their online high school, Louisiana Virtual Charter Academy (LAVCA).

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Florida Senate votes to consider coding a foreign language for graduation requirements. State senators in Florida overwhelmingly approved a proposal to allow high school students to count computer coding as a foreign language course, although questions linger about whether the two subjects should be considered one and the same.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2024

In just a few months, I transitioned from being a student at the University of Montana’s College of Education to leading the instruction of a room of rambunctious middle school students interested in STEM. Then, I moved into a new role as a K-8 STEM Director at my school. Esports is one such extracurricular activity.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This new survey by Samsung Solve for Tomorrow was sparked by the increasing use of AI in the innovative community solutions submitted by school teams to our annual public school STEM competition. public middle and high school students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Moreover, programming languages such as SQL, Java, JavaScript, C#, and Python are increasingly important to master regardless of profession or industry. Coding and robotics can help students develop critical skills for success after high school, highlighting the importance of coding in real life.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2017

stammered Estrada, a native Spanish-speaking sophomore from Yes Prep High School in Texas. “My Estrada fell for a girl who only spoke English his freshman year in high school but refused to let a language barrier divide them. Waves of language learning apps like Babbel and Duolingo have hit the market.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

At my district’s high schools, personalized learning is fairly easy to see. Sometimes elementary and middle school teachers come across as apologetic about how “little” they are doing in relation to personalized learning. This document helped standardize what good teaching looks like at elementary, middle and high school levels.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The need to strengthen the science, technology, math and engineering (STEM) careers pipeline has received renewed interest lately. So what would it take to make STEM truly open to would-be future scientists? So what would it take to make STEM truly open to would-be future scientists? The issue is algebra skills.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Along the way, students will meet a variety of real-world co-op professionals who reveal the STEM innovations that today’s farms are using to stay productive. Each resource is culturally authentic, reflects the diversity of today’s world, and includes embedded supports, like closed captioning, text-to-speech, and language translations.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2023

EdSurge: Why did you decide to create a coloring book, of all things, about Black women in STEM? We're all kicked out of school, kicked out of the dorm, and honestly, it was so chaotic, and I'm just at home, like, “What do I do to not lose my mind?” One of the things that I feel like is a barrier to tech is language.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Jennifer Wolochow majored in philosophy and religion at Stanford, hoping to become a high school teacher. “I More companies in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—or STEM—fields are hiring workers with liberal arts backgrounds, according to a recent report. That was the case with Robert Dawson.

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2019

As a former computer engineer with a background in applied math, I’m a firm proponent of STEM education. Robots4STEM comprises a two-foot-tall humanoid robot named Jett, a visual coding language, and a curriculum. Here’s how we did it. Kindergarten & 1st grade. Our 3rd-graders work with the robots4STEM suite from RoboKind.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Until all students are treated equally and given access to similar educational resources, we have little chance of achieving equality in K-12 schools. Ultimately, students must have the tools and resources they need not only to graduate, but to be prepared for post-high school success.

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2021

A programming language is math. A computer program is a list of instructions written using the programming language’s mathematical system. A programming language is a mathematical tool for creating software. But programming languages are designed for software engineers and professional programmers.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Proposal would require high schools to count coding courses toward foreign language requirements. A controversial plan to require high schools to offer computer coding courses and let students count them toward foreign language requirements was heralded Thursday as “novel,” “innovative” and “forward-thinking.”.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 2, 2018

School STEM Labs Inspire Students, Power Innovation. Thomas School near Seattle hopes to encourage students to develop a passion for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by starting them young and engaging them with cool, new learning spaces featuring robots and 3D virtual reality computers. meghan.bogardu….

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Charlotte, NC — Discovery Education and The Illumina Corporate Foundation today announced a new virtual experience – Genomics: Decoding the Language of Life Virtual Field Trip – to immerse students in grades 6-12 in the power of DNA. Learn more and register here. .

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The District has launched an entire website devoted to the Hour of Code — www.RUSDcodes.com — so that families can participate in activities at home and students can use it as a resource for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) education opportunities throughout the year.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

We asked education experts to share their thoughts regarding student success priorities in 2025 (find 50 edtech predictions for 2025 here )–discover what they had to say: Across the country, there is growing consensus and demand for high school transformation. Students often learn best by doing.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In one year, I shifted from being an educator who didn’t value an expanded role of video games in schools to a teacher developing an elementary esports curriculum, running multiple esports summer camps, and developing an elementary esports after school club. I teach an elementary STEM class called iCreate in South Haven Public Schools.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2023

When an emergency happens at a school, every second matters during the response. But communication and visibility gaps continue to hinder school officials and first responders and their ability to respond quickly in emergencies. The ability to effectively communicate during these incidents saves lives.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

As we walk towards the new Career Launch Center, Anabel Garza, principal at Reagan Early College High School in Austin, Texas, greets two young men in the hallway. Garza’s story is well-chronicled, the age-old tale of a principal trying to turn around an impoverished school with failing tests scores.

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

and abroad, while focusing on supporting disconnected and marginalized student populations and empowering girls in STEM. TCS envisioned the first-of-its-kind STEM/computer science education program with a mission to make computational thinking accessible to every student and educator. Beyond the U.S., currently teach computer science.

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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. In Enlarged City School District of Middletown (N.Y.), Vancouver Public Schools (Wash.) New skills for a new economy.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2020

Until all students are treated equally and given access to similar educational resources, we have little chance of achieving equality in K-12 schools. Ultimately, students must have the tools and resources they need not only to graduate, but to be prepared for post-high school success.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

This thread of inequity continues through other groups of students such as English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities. Many students of color have been dissuaded from STEM and attending higher-level courses due to their past academic performance or solely based on their backgrounds.

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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. It’s in some states.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Whether they go on to college or begin a career immediately after high school, they will no longer have somebody telling them what to do and when to do it. Almost 20,000 students in more than 600 high schools around the world use our nonprofit’s courses to supplement their school’s face-to-face offerings.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Historically, English language learner (ELL) instruction has primarily focused on reading and writing. Despite their growing English proficiency, they will often still struggle to complete the high school math requirements for graduation. Addressing the math issue early on is actually the key to success. Closing the Math Gap.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2023

New fields in computer science seem to emerge each day and now include computer systems and networks, security, database systems, human computer interaction, vision and graphics, numerical analysis, programming languages, software engineering, bioinformatics, and theory of computing.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

And while colleges can sometimes spin up new courses and degrees to meet these evolving needs, school districts can’t always make those types of quick pivots. Anaheim Union High School District wants to buck that trend. Today, Anaheim’s pathways start at grade seven and continue through high school.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2021

Exploring Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence with Mastercard Premiere: September 28 th Explore cyber security in a new multi-part digital learning video series and activities designed to inspire girls to pursue STEM. Mortenson, an Instructional Coach at Verona Area High School in the Verona Area School District.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

“The amount of achievement-level grouping — that it does start within classrooms in K-5 schools and that by middle school, students are typically grouped by achievement level more often than they’re not in their math classes — that’s something new,” Kaufman said.

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2023

Unpopular with students, the class didn’t seem to be preparing them for a career in STEM. A lot of those students are people who might not have stuck it out in STEM, according to the study. A Barrier to STEM? On the current trajectory, the Pew researchers argue, it’s unlikely that STEM degree attainment will alter this.

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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. In South Fayette Township School District, kindergartners are taught (and excel in) basic coding and computational thinking principles.

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