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Thinking outside the classroom: Creative strategies to combat the teacher shortage

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Here are three scalable strategies our district has used to build and strengthen our team of classroom educators: “Grow your own” Untapped teaching talent is all around us. Local industry professionals are a powerful resource pool of work-based knowledge and skills, but require varying levels of preparation before teaching a class.

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Inquiry-based science platform lets students conduct investigations

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Released in preparation for the 2015-16 school year, NexGen Inquiry includes an interactive teaching and learning platform that supports existing curriculum, integrated teacher professional development, a teacher community and a resource library.

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With AI coaching, a math platform helps students tackle tough concepts

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To overcome these challenges, schools must emphasize early intervention, interactive teaching strategies, and the use of engaging digital tools. With the shift toward more constructivist modes of teaching, we can build really strong conceptual knowledge, but students need time to build out procedural fluency, he said.

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Game On: How Four Community College Professors Spawned the CUNY Games Network

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The network links educators across disciplines who are interested in using games and other forms of interactive teaching to improve student success. Can a Classic Board Game Teach Writing Skills? The CGN also has hosted three increasingly well-attended conferences, called the CUNY Games Festival.

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Classroom displays new interactive learning technologies

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The technology showcase will feature Boxlight’s patented, award-winning interactive classroom technology and the advanced classroom solutions from its recent acquisition, Mimio, one of the world’s leading providers of interactive teaching technologies. Labdisc, the all-in-one, hand-held wireless STEM lab for every science. •

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What’s New for School Year 2025-2026 at Elevate K-12 

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From persistent staffing shortages to rising instructional needs and now added uncertainty stemming from sweeping federal policy shifts, theres no shortage of pressure on those working to ensure students get the education they deserve. We listened.

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Analysis: Is Higher Ed Ready for the Tech Expectations of the Teens of 2022?

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Microsoft, perhaps best known for its several-thousand-dollar HoloLens headset, recently made a pledge that buyers of much lower-priced Windows Mixed Reality headsets would get 25 hours of free STEM curricula. One, Bamboo Learning, interactively teaches music theory and math.