EdTech Magazine

APRIL 24, 2018

Research from School Library Journal indicates that maker activities at elementary and middle schools increased by 4 percent from 2014 to 2017. Thomas School Dedicates Space to Bolster STEM Learning. Need advice for starting a #K12 #STEM learning lab? For its part, St. Performance marketing flag.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2018

What understanding learning differences can teach us about personalized learning For 35 years, Chartwell Middle School, near Monterey, Calif., focused primarily on supporting students with language-based learning differences, primarily dyslexia. However, they frequently have very strong visual-spatial skills.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Eleven years later, as I walk through the halls in a middle school/high school setting, I see students sitting on a tile floor crowded around a device trying to type, communicate, take videos, and record their voices with background noise and distractions often interrupting their progress. 10 steps to support change.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

More often than not they look at us like we’re nuts—rightly so—which is why in my learning environment, we take a slightly different approach, easing parents into our way of thinking slowly, and involving them and their and students in a hands-on way as they get acquainted with what we do and why—because what we do is pretty different.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. When we cultivate learning spaces designed to inspire and spark curiosity, students begin to forge their own mathematical identities.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 3, 2019

Don’t be afraid to define an ideal vision for what a learning space could look like in your school. Even if it isn’t achievable now, a broad view of possibilities sets a roadmap for the future and ensures you don’t sell your space short before you’ve begun. Are There Nonclassroom Spaces That Tend to Be Overlooked?

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eSchool News

MAY 23, 2024

This last year, we wrote and received a grant allowing us to install STEAM labs in all of our elementary and middle schools. STEAM labs provide a dedicated and engaging learning space to increase student mastery and achievement in core competencies while sparking their access, exposure, and interest in STEAM.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2024

When my principal asked if I would be interested in teaching one elective period per day for the middle school population, I suggested a STEM elective since I had just taught a summer full of STEM during NYC’s annual STEM in the City programming. I was tasked with providing reading intervention services for at-risk K-8 students.

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Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2017

Kurani is a licensed architect who focuses his work on learning spaces, and currently teaches a “Learning Environments for Tomorrow” course at the Harvard Graduate School of Education every year. The research in learning spaces only focuses on that. Danish Kurani. Having worked on locations ranging from.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

High school students have created prototypes for innovations that redefine how we travel in the air and support sustainable living on Mars. We have seen this transformation first-hand here at Arizona Science Center’s CREATE makerspace , where I work.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

These experiences lend themselves to project-based learning: Students who experience collaborative learning models develop a deeper understanding of the subject, exhibit greater problem-solving and critical-learning skills and convey greater confidence in their learning abilities.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

From Montessori to personalized, to college and life-prep schools, individual campuses picked up pedagogies and transformed their learning spaces. When there is no connection between learning practices taught in elementary, middle and high school, teachers do not recognize the importance of what they are doing.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

We also just finished renovating our high school with new interactive displays and collaborative furniture. The teachers in the renovated space all agreed to give up their traditional desks in exchange for mobile standing desks. We’re small, but there’s a lot of innovative things happening here, especially with VR and technology. .

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2016

The exciting part of our story is that these redesigned learning spaces have indeed influenced the shift in instructional practice among our own staff, and with our schools who have—and are—replicating this work. Pleasant Middle School , who partnered with our agency in the design of classroom (shown above).

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2017

In response to these challenges, the NYCDOE launched WeTeachNYC in September 2015, an online professional learning space for teachers and school leaders.WeTeachNYC was designed based on three core understandings: Educators benefit from having a centralized space where resources and opportunities are easily discoverable.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Mathletics is a captivating online learning space that provides students with all the tools needed to be successful math learners both in the classroom and beyond. Here are five online math resources that will turn boring math into a favorite subject: Mathletics.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2018

How Transforming the Physical Space Impacts Lesson Design As schools transition to student-centered learning environments, we often see them redesign learning spaces. Schools all over the country are looking to create flexible, open spaces in their schools for collaboration.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2017

In response to these challenges, the NYCDOE launched WeTeachNYC in September 2015, an online professional learning space for teachers and school leaders.WeTeachNYC was designed based on three core understandings: Educators benefit from having a centralized space where resources and opportunities are easily discoverable.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

In 2015, after the state passed a law requiring each local board of education to have a virtual option for students in grades 9-12, the Athens City School District created Renaissance. This is very different,” says Brown, the new principal at Renaissance who came from a traditional middle school last May. “We

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Classrooms throughout the district are outfitted equitably with technology and have an adequate infrastructure teachers need for engaging learning environments. Hess ensured teachers were prepared and informed about ways to utilize their new classrooms.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 4, 2024

Most of my teaching experience was in middle schools, so I spent a lot of time with kids who were going through one of the most tumultuous transitions of their lives. Weathers explains why he made this shift: “What I typically see is that prompt is available for students the moment they enter the learning space.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 26, 2025

Unlike traditional schools, where the environment is designed for focus and discipline, the home can be full of distractions. Setting up the right space helps students mentally separate “school time” from “home time.” How involved do parents need to be in K12 online learning?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Then I paused, and assured them that, “I’m not naive, I’ve been a New York City Police Officer, I’ve seen a world of violence, and,” in a nod to the fire expert who sat across the table from me, “I went to a huge high school that burned to the ground.” This space is for 130–140 multiage kids and six teachers. was rebuilt.

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