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Showfloor News: PBLWorks creates PBLWorks TEACH to help scale project based learning

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The Buck Institute for Education (dba PBLWorks ), a national provider of professional development for high-quality Project Based Learning (PBL), is launching PBLWorks TEACH , a web-based application with ready-to-use, standards-aligned, Gold-Standard PBL projects for middle school math, science, English Language Arts, and social studies.

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Project POTUS 2025 Middle School Winners Announced

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Indianapolis, IN — Project POTUS, a national middle school history initiative from the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site, has named winners for this year’s competition. Richard’s Episcopal School in Indianapolis, Indiana won for her video about President Thomas Jefferson. Just 115 have become Supreme Court Justices.

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From curiosity to clarity: Showcasing career paths to young learners

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This year, I judged the middle school career research event, which allows students to explore careers of interest by completing a career interest survey, researching a field, and presenting key details such as education requirements, job outlook, salary, and what a typical workday looks like.

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Middle and high school students need education, career guidance

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The survey of more than of 3,000 students in grades 7-12 offers insights into teens’ plans after high school. The research, Next Steps: An Analysis of Teens’ Post-High School Plans , uncovers evolving trends in teenagers’ attitudes, perceptions, and decision-making about their post-high school plans.

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Many states picked diploma pathways over high school exit exams. Did students benefit?

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The senior at Washington state’s Toppenish High School first considered the career after he joined a STEM group in middle school. Brito’s experience is what state education leaders hoped for when they replaced the high school exit exam with multiple pathways to graduation.

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Many students decide they’re not a ‘math person’ by the end of elementary school, new study shows

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However, the RAND study notes that routine boredom is associated with lower school performance, reduced motivation, reduced effort, and increased rates of dropping out of school. Nearly all the students who said they identified as a “math person” came to that conclusion before they reached high school, the RAND survey results show.

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11+ Strong Class Projects for Middle School Engineering Classes

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With low-prep setup, challenging concepts, and the coolest finished projects ever, these class projects for middle school engineering classes are sure to inspire the next generation of future engineers in your class. It’s not a great joke, but creating a potato clock is a great science experiment for middle school.