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5 reasons why game design is the best way to teach STEAM skills

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Despite using digital tools daily, many students still struggle to turn that exposure into marketable, employable skills. The challenge: Digital skills gap in education Industries are evolving quickly, and they need workers with strong STEAM skills. That’s where game-based learning comes in.

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AI tools that support learning–not cheating

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From personalized practice questions to interactive explanations, many education-focused AI tools are designed to aid, not undermine, student learning. The way teachers use the AI tools in their classrooms–open conversations around acceptable use help students use AI tools for meaningful learning instead of for cheating.

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Bridging the Gap Between Classroom and Real Life: The Power of Applied Learning

k12 Digest

His educational philosophy is centered on nurturing students’ thirst for knowledge and preparing them to do meaningful work in the future. In a 2023 national survey by Hanover Research, only 27% of American high school students said they felt what they were learning was relevant to the real world.

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Understanding and mitigating academic regression from summer learning loss

eSchool News

Research indicates that students typically lose between one to two months of reading and mathematics skills during summer vacation. Studies show that by the time students reach middle school, summer learning loss can accumulate to create an achievement gap of up to two years between socioeconomic groups.

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Personalized Learning, Global Citizenship: A Framework for the Modern Classroom

k12 Digest

Nam Ngo Thanh is an educational leader, innovator, and advocate for equity-driven, holistic learning. Nam’s work is grounded in the belief that education must be both empowering and compassionate—equipping learners not only with knowledge, but with resilience, empathy, and the confidence to shape a better world.

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The clock is ticking: Why standardized schedules don’t work for learning

eSchool News

But we often ignore one fundamental truth: Learning takes time, and the time needed is different for every student. Ask any teacher, and they will tell you that the pace of learning is not universal. And yet, our education system insists on treating time as the fixed variable in the equation of learning–even when we know better.

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Catapult Learning is Approved to Provide High-Dosage Tutoring in Massachusetts Elementary and Secondary Schools

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Massachusetts districts face urgent literacy gaps, and our high-dosage tutoring model is designed to close those gaps efficiently and effectively,” said Devon Wible, vice president of teaching and learning for Catapult Learning. “We Catapult Learning’s HDT model is designed to scale individualized learning.