eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2016

As educators, we know that science is not just a body of knowledge, but it is a process that enables people to answer questions through scientific inquiry. We used this rich information, as well as teacher proposed learning progressions on science and engineering practices to build digital badges that validate mastery of skills and practices.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2018

Is it by asking them to passively read a textbook or listen to a teacher lecture? We want to increase their knowledge, skills, and interest in STEM, and balance student-centered teaching with state and national standards. In our middle and high schools, students work with their teachers to choose their projects.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The AI Education Project on Wednesday released its AI Readiness Framework , a comprehensive way for students, teachers and school leaders to think about building AI Readiness in America’s schools and evaluating what being “AI Ready” means in a time of rapid technological change. aiEDU’s framework has three parts.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2024

Though many teachers tout the importance of STEM learning, many also shy away from the “E” in STEM. It is interdisciplinary and focuses on 21 st -century skills, real-world problems, and offers context and content integration, making topics relevant to something students are learning about and are engaged in.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Students explore practical applications of theoretical knowledge, such as designing simple machines, programming robots, or analyzing environmental data. Integrating STEM into K-12 curricula helps prepare students for a world that increasingly depends on interdisciplinary knowledge.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

You must have enough teachers, the right technology, and lessons that infuse STEM into all classes including history and English/language arts, just to name a few. A history teacher can take their students to virtually explore a battlefield, versus simply having them read accounts and examine photos.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

This interdisciplinary approach encourages students to think critically, problem-solve, and make connections across different subjects. Recently, the school undertook a major overhaul, giving teachers full control over the decision-making process. Our curriculum committee is made entirely of our teachers.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

STEM education would emphasize problem-solving, interdisciplinary approaches and the value of discovery and play, according to a new 10-year vision from the American Institutes for Research for the U.S. The ideal future of U.S. Department of Education’s STEM Initiatives Team. The report results from workshops convened by the U.S.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2025

Interdisciplinary approaches Incorporating an interdisciplinary approach can significantly enrich the learning process for students. It provides learners with the opportunity to synthesize knowledge by exploring topics and ideas through multiple lenses. According to Moser et. Strategies for implementation 1.Start

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Here’s what they had to say: In 2025 and beyond, providing high-quality professional learning will be essential in retaining teachers, as well as helping to ensure they feel fulfilled in their work. Students are engaged and invested in a project that has local benefits!

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Sixty-five percent of the Class of 2023 graduates had five or fewer conversations with teachers or counselors about post-high school choices, and high school graduates feel uncertain about their current chosen pathways. A breakdown in student-educator communication may be a factor behind the lack of CTE program awareness.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Or, as the “Out of the Box” report says: “Imagine, for example, elementary classes that deeply embed the science of reading, making use of phonics instruction to the degree appropriate for each student and using technology and artificial intelligence to support building the requisite vocabulary and content knowledge to access rigorous text.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Iowa BIG : A community conversation about the knowledge and skills young people need to become engaged and successful members of the community as adults was linked with an initiative to send 60 community leaders back to school alongside learners over a four-month period. Many electives take advantage of the Village’s flexible format.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

members, can implement our well-structured and inclusive curriculum with the knowledge that the program meets and exceeds the requirements to become an integral component of a school’s STEM implementation.”. Additionally, teachers and students will be able to explore the technology of Amazon’s Fulfillment Centers via virtual field trips.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2021

Any teacher, even those without computer science expertise, can use CoderZ’s proven approach, which uses virtual robots to bring instruction to life. Each CoderZ course develops interdisciplinary skills like problem-solving, collaboration, and grit as well as core knowledge in physics, geometry, literacy, and algebra.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

For K-12 educators today, this represents a challenge: how can teachers infuse in their young students an interest in the new discipline of data science. Although each grade level lists important knowledge, the knowledge is linked and developed as part of a coherent whole.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

From phonological awareness and the alphabetic principle to background knowledge and vocabulary, each component is integral to a reader’s ability to comprehend text. Word recognition includes instant and effortless identification of familiar words, as well as phonics knowledge that connects letter names and sounds.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2024

The science of reading distills vast knowledge into practical strategies to help all students become proficient readers, emphasizing a comprehensive approach that includes word recognition, language comprehension and bridging skills. With practice, sight word recognition allows instant recognition of common words.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

million grant to researchers within KUs School of Education & Human Sciences to develop Increasing Knowledge and Natural Opportunities With Social Emotional Competence, or iKNOW. It will leverage our ability to take something off of teachers plates and provide tools for students to learn these skills in multiple environments.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2024

In 2013, the STEM and Computer Science (STEM+CS) team was created to implement an interdisciplinary grades K-12 STEM program outside the grade-level core disciplines of ELA, math, science and social studies, and separate from the standard Career Technical Education (CTE) programs to reach all students.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. The population of students I serve as a teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning are interested in pursuing a career in education.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 4, 2025

Build historical machines in interdisciplinary projects 7. NGSS MS-ETS1-2, ETS1-1, ETS1-3; MS-PS2-1 Subjects: Engineering, Math, Physical Science This hands-on STEM project for middle school takes students through the steps and knowledge needed to create bottle rockets out of 2-liter soda bottles, CSs, and duct tape.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2019

Back then, I thought these “what if’s” were manifestations of my own shortcomings as a teacher. The union, United Teachers Los Angeles, has been calling on LAUSD to reinvest its budget and reserves toward resolving critical needs in its schools. Now I understand they are ramifications of how the system is designed.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Today, the award-winning science series NOVA , produced for PBS by GBH Boston, announced the launch of NOVA Science Studio , a new national program to teach and engage young people through an interdisciplinary curriculum focused on science communication, digital media literacy, and video production.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) has become more prominent as an effective approach to interdisciplinary learning. STEAM is a guided approach to exploratory learning where teacher-talk is at a minimum and students drive interaction and discovery. Integrating STEAM.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

Students routinely arrive in my classroom lacking even a basic understanding of civic principles, constitutional knowledge and U.S. Yet despite my success using reenactments and roleplaying, students routinely arrive in my classroom lacking even a basic understanding of civic principles, constitutional knowledge and U.S.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Having on hand easy-to-use and fun resources focused on STEM careers, like those in manufacturing, helps students feel empowered by their potential,” said Mark Case, a science teacher at Southern Guilford High School of Guilford County Schools in North Carolina. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This opportunity allows me to learn from other district leaders while supporting teachers using student data and two-way communication tools to drive student success,” said Rachel Blackwell, Digital Learning Facilitator for Pulaski County Special School District. For the last nine years, she has been a part of the Instructional Technology.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2017

In 2008, Heidi Williams, author of the book “No Fear Coding,” began asking herself some retrospective questions about her role as a teacher at an International Baccalaureate School in Racine, Wisc. I don’t call myself a teacher anymore. Heidi Williams “I don’t call myself a teacher anymore,” says Williams.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The student’s faces say it all: they see themselves in these leaders and know that they, too, can be STEM leaders,” said Michele Hutson, a 2 nd Grade Teacher in the Santa Rosa County School District of Florida. To view the complete list of STEM Career Coalition partners, visit the partnership webpage here.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 27, 2018

Because there are no tech tools that will make us super teachers. Pencils didn’t make us super teachers. Textbooks didn’t make us super teachers. Chalkboards and whiteboards and overhead projectors didn’t make us super teachers. VCR and LaserDisc and DVD players didn’t make us super teachers. Do an agency audit.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Discovery Education today launched Keeping You Connected to Curiosity , a new initiative keeping the continuity of curiosity alive for teachers and students everywhere. Among the services delivering Keeping You Connected to Curiosity to teachers and students everywhere are Discovery Education Science Techbook s.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

Encourage students to select supplemental articles relevant to their fields to foster interdisciplinary connections, allowing for both autonomy and current insights in the field. AI is so new that the landscape of our knowledge is changing constantly. ” This perspective highlights the reciprocal nature of learning. .”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic set this work back substantially; teachers and students went into survival mode and volunteer opportunities dried up as workplaces closed. Armed with full knowledge of the issue, they dove into the research, recorded public service announcements and canvassed their community for advocates.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2023

She emphasized that 'If we want to make informed decisions to sustainably transform education, our leaders must have authentic knowledge and skills in technology." Collaborative efforts, interdisciplinary workstreams and unified goals were instrumental in driving progress.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2024

Purdue is one of 28 Indiana colleges and universities that received grants from Lilly Endowment to support efforts that integrate science of reading-aligned principles into teacher preparation programs. Creating stacked credentials for undergraduate and graduate students as well as offerings for current teachers.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Sometimes the two agents can agree on information that is false and clashes with the knowledge of the learner. One thing I should say: when you talk about shallow knowledge—can the students recognize a concept—then reading a book is pretty good. They didn’t need or even want people with deep knowledge. It’s a different world.

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