eSchool News

JULY 24, 2025

UPA teachers and leaders have leveraged PBL as a way that empowers students to be a part of the future of their city – from working on keeping their unhoused population warm in the winter through a physics project on heat transfer, to urban gardens that allowed students to provide farm-to-table food to local food pantries and shelters.

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Elevate k12

JUNE 11, 2025

Today, we are thrilled to shine a spotlight on two teachers who have truly exemplified the spirit of excellence this school year. Please join us in congratulating our SY2024-25 Elevate Teachers of the Year, Tiffany Barksdale and Stephanie Gonzalez! Both of our honorees emphasized how vital this relationship is to their success. “My

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

With its success, regional leaders are already planning the next phase, emphasizing teacher training, broader participation and enhanced support. Focus on teacher support. Teachers are the backbone of success. What stood out most? The way the Showdown brought together students from every district and grade level.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Teachers regularly use technology, not just to teach, but to help students think deeper, ask better questions, and tell their own stories. To make that possible, Elmwood invests deeply in teacher training, combining International Baccalaureate (IB) expertise with ongoing professional development in technology and pedagogy. Whitehouse.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2025

It introduces career-ready practices as a core element and embraces interdisciplinary learning that mirrors todays job landscape. Nearly 18,000 schools across the country currently offer CTE programming, and 83 percent of CTE teachers expect their annual budgets to stay the same or increase. Thats not sustainable.

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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. Understanding how students interact with AI tools allows teachers to guide ethical usage, ensuring that both educators and learners benefit from these technologies.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 4, 2025

Build historical machines in interdisciplinary projects 7. Build historical machines in interdisciplinary projects How did we get our modern-day inventions? These activities make excellent interdisciplinary challenges for cross-curricular science and history lessons. Launch STEM learning with bottle rockets 2.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

What advice would you give a first-year teacher about kids your age? 10 Math and Science Prompts for Interdisciplinary Writing Writing in math and science can be as easy as pi! If you were making a time capsule to open in 20 years, what five items would you put in to represent this year? Which holiday do you look forward to the most?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

What is the first sign that youre going to like or dislike a teacher? Some interdisciplinary writing ideas include: Science: Have students write argumentative or informational journal entries on science-related topics, such as climate change, human impacts on the ecosystem, and important inventions we use every day.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When I was at TCEA last week, a teacher approached me after one of my sessions to ask if I had ever written about my experience planning interdisciplinary projects. I realized that I had not written specifically about the process of planning a project with teachers who taught other subject areas. interdisciplinaryproject.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This understanding has deepened through my collaboration with Kathy Renfrew, whose journey from a self-proclaimed science-phobic classroom teacher to renowned STEM educator and leader illustrates the transformation that happens when educators break down traditional subject-area barriers and create truly interdisciplinary units.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Teachers may see the new initiative as “just another thing” on their plate or may feel ill-prepared to tackle an entirely new discipline. To ensure a smooth transition to teaching computer science, campus and district leaders will need to empower teachers with ownership of the change, versus simply asking them to comply with it.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

This ambitious undertaking demands technical expertise and embodies the true essence of interdisciplinary collaboration. Their interdisciplinary approach incorporates the work of both solar panel designers and nuclear reactor engineers, seeking solutions that optimize energy generation while adapting to the unique Martian conditions.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

When a school is fortunate to have exceptional teachers with diverse backgrounds, those teachers can draw on their experiences and interests to create a strong, engaging, and original curriculum. They learn how everything fits together, and it becomes a fun and memorable approach to interdisciplinary learning.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

This ambitious undertaking demands technical expertise and embodies the true essence of interdisciplinary collaboration. Their interdisciplinary approach incorporates the work of both solar panel designers and nuclear reactor engineers, seeking solutions that optimize energy generation while adapting to the unique Martian conditions.

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eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2021

Thoughtfully-crafted STEM lessons that leverage technology-rich resources similar to what your students are using outside the classroom are great ways to engage students in interdisciplinary instruction.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2020

If we want to support every student, we must first ensure that teachers are equipped to do so. Educators, like their students, are constantly learning. Every educator should have access to tools and support to grow. Related content: 3 ways to teach STEM in a blended environment.

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eSchool News

MAY 2, 2023

STEM education might seem a bit overwhelming, but if teachers can move past their initial hesitation, they’re likely to find more than a couple ways to highlight STEM each day.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Our group came from all over the state, representing different grades and subjects, and our mission was to create an online guide to help teachers break apart each standard, then provide a video tutorial or example of a lesson to address the standard, which we wrote as a team.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Its flexible, modular learning units give students an easy-to-follow experience using high-quality interdisciplinary resources that can be used in a wide variety of classrooms and across all subjects.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

A few months into the 2021-22 school year, teachers, parents, and students are once again confronted with the devastating reality of pandemic-prompted learning loss. A STEAM learning approach encourages collaboration to understand and distill new concepts.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Newark, NJ – Offshore wind company Bluepoint Wind is announcing today the winners of grants to further STEM education for 10 teachers from schools across New Jersey. We are proud to support New Jersey teachers who are instrumental in fostering students’ passions for STEM and its critical role in building our energy future.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2019

Check out the following 5 STEM grants–some are research-based, others are for teachers, and a couple are focused around student involvement. The STEM+C program supports research on how students learn to think computationally to solve interdisciplinary problems in science and mathematics.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

As novice sixth grade math and English teachers, weve learned to approach our mid-year benchmark assessments not as final judgments but as tools for reflection and growth. In addition, interdisciplinary collaboration at our weekly professional learning communities (PLCs) has strengthened this process.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2021

When a school is fortunate to have exceptional teachers with diverse backgrounds, those teachers can draw on their experiences and interests to create a strong, engaging, and original curriculum. They learn how everything fits together, and it becomes a fun and memorable approach to interdisciplinary learning.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2015

The Learning Studios toolkit features free, online resources that are a mix of design and communication templates, reflective discussion protocols, and evaluation surveys to guide and monitor complex, interdisciplinary curriculum and assessment work. Next page: Three ways teachers can use the STEM toolkit. News STEM Top News'

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2025

Interdisciplinary approaches Incorporating an interdisciplinary approach can significantly enrich the learning process for students. This highlights the necessity for teachers to evolve into facilitators of learning, acting as guides who support students taking ownership of their learning. Strategies for implementation 1.Start

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

With full alignment to the revised TEKS for Technology Applications and robust teacher support for interdisciplinary lessons, the CoderZ courses make it easy for educators to integrate computer science into core subject learning and give teachers the resources they need to build a strong foundation for technical and engineering career pathways.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Here are five strategies teachers can take to make STEM come alive in their classrooms. Teachers can lead activities that allow students to see concepts in action, including simple experiments with household materials to demonstrate principles like gravity, friction, or chemical reactions.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Integrating STEM into K-12 curricula helps prepare students for a world that increasingly depends on interdisciplinary knowledge. Programs tailored for K-12 students often provide equitable access to resources and opportunities, creating a more inclusive pipeline for future scientists, engineers, and innovators.

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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.

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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? Department of Education, is a rigorous, interdisciplinary, standards-focused method of STEM education that encourages students to develop and share their STEM knowledge and investigations.

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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2023

With ready-to-go lessons, CodeHS makes teaching computer science simple even for elementary teachers who have never taught computer science before. The In Context Pathway includes interdisciplinary lessons built to be incorporated into other parts of the school day- including ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies instructional time.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2017

This award honors one elementary school teacher who has established (or is establishing) an interdisciplinary, inquiry-based lesson plan. The lesson plan will fully reference sources of information and any relevant National Science Education Standards and benchmarks found in the Atlas of Science Literacy.

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2015

Teachers are using 3D printing across the curriculum in an expanded pilot. Teachers at The Sizer School, a North Central Charter Essential School, began piloting curriculum with NVPro, a 3D printer from NVBOTS. The 3D printer is now incorporated into teachers’ lesson plans on a larger scale.

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