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A Call to Action: We Must Do Better for Our Children, Our Students

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A Global Youth Culture study found that 60% of young people report experiencing depression, 66% struggle with anxiety, and 35% have had suicidal thoughts. While technology can be a powerful tool for learning and connection, it has also created vast spaces where students’ anxieties are amplified.

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A Call to Action: We Must Do Better for Our Children, Our Students

k12 Digest

A trusted subject matter expert, Micheles voice and inclusive approach foster collaboration among administrators, multidisciplinary teams, school resource officers, parents, and leaders at the local, state, and federal levels. The CDC reports that nearly one in five high school students seriously considered suicide in the past year.

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3 teacher-vetted edtech resources for cross-curricular lessons

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

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Multidisciplinary Learning Each academic year, every school must have at least one clearly defined theme, project or course that combines the content of different subjects and deals with the selected theme from the perspective of several subjects. These are called multidisciplinary learning modules.

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Breaking Boundaries for Comprehensive Learning Interdisciplinary studies, as an approach to education, research, and problem-solving, break down traditional boundaries between academic fields, encouraging collaboration and integration of knowledge from diverse areas. 2017; Liu et al.,

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How to Prepare Students for Jobs in the Self-Driving-Car-Industry

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That painfully obvious pun is actually one of the truest things you can say about this nascent, multidisciplinary enterprise, and it also encapsulates the challenge educators who want to prepare their students to work in this industry are facing today. And our robotics engineering program is inherently multidisciplinary.