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Blackbird Announces First-ever Purpose-built Middle School Coding Education Platform

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Created to Address the “Middle School Gap” – Blackbird Teaches Real-world Computer Science Skills, Aligned to Educational Standards. Blackbird’s integrated LMS enables instructors to easily track student progress, review errors and make direct comments. Addresses the “Middle School Gap” in Computer Science education. ?

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Blackbird Announces First Ever Educational Version of JavaScript

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First Educational Version of a Programming Language Enables Middle School Code Education – Bridging the Middle School Gap. Blackbird’s integrated LMS enables instructors to easily track student progress, review code and make direct comments. Traditionally, code teaching systems use unmodified programming languages.

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5 reasons to use a one-stop-shop communications platform

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For example, one might develop a distribution list at the start of the new school year but would get a new student in January and forget to add the new parents to the distribution list. Our middle school integrated arts instructors faced a different set of challenges, namely due to the rotation of their classes throughout the school year.

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Dual Enrollment Numbers Are Rising. Colleges Want Them to Keep Growing.

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According to their findings, 81 percent of students who took dual enrollment courses in 2015 went to college the first year after high school and 42 percent completed college four years after finishing high school. Later, the teachers can meet with their instructors to discuss the lab.

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SkillsUSA competitions give students hands-on experience with career skills

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A nonprofit organization for career and technical education (CTE), SkillsUSA serves more than 413,000 middle school, high school, and college students and instructors nationwide.

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Helping students learn new tech skills–and exceed expectations

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The answer can be found in a small but mighty after-school and summer program that sets high expectations to inspire young people to explore technology career pathways and become leaders committed to improving their communities. Few mistakes are corrected. This exploratory approach requires a learning environment that facilitates flexibility.

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Mass. teacher finds success with flipped model

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At Memorial Middle School in Fitchburg, Mass., He said lectures are boring for students, as well as for teachers, and students learn better through discovery and hands-on work with the instructor available to help them when they get stuck.

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