Thu.Feb 13, 2025

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Teachers Say Parental Engagement Can Make or Break Efforts to Close Learning Gaps

ED Surge

The recent unveiling of national reading and math scores revealed some disheartening trends about learning recovery with the collective main headline: Students Are Doing Worse Than Before the Pandemic Started. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. The factors behind the continued dip in scores are multilayered, but teachers might tell you that the key reason why some students arent making progress is that parents arent making schoolwork a priority at home.

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Engineers Week Feb. 16-22 2025

Ask a Tech Teacher

This week, February 16-22, 2025 is DiscoverEs Engineers Week. Their tagline: A week-long event, a year-long commitment Do you wonder why anyone would be passionate about engineering?Overall, engineering offers a combination of intellectual challenge, real-world impact, and opportunities for personal and professional growth. By pursuing a career in engineering, students can contribute to meaningful projects, solve complex problems, and make a positive difference in the world.

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Multi-Academy Trusts & CREST Awards

All About STEM

This year, we’ll be celebrating the inspirational Multi-Academy Trusts across the north west that enthuse their learners with CREST Awards! If you’re a local MAT running CREST in your schools, get in touch here. If you’re a Multi-Academy Trust and would like to start running CREST Awards, read on. We would love to celebrate you too!

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Increase Your Professional Value Through Teaching and Reflecting

Teach Hub

As an educator your days are busy planning lessons, grading papers, and attending meetings. While it may seem like something always needs your attention, theres one practice that often gets overlooked: self-reflection. You likely know that incorporating self-reflection into your daily or weekly routine is important. However, time can feel like a major hurdle, and finding an efficient method that works for you may seem challenging.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Read Your Way: World Book Day Resources

All About STEM

This year, the theme for World Book Day 2025 is ‘Read Your Way’, encouraging children and young people to discover reading on their terms. Children sometimes feel like reading is something they have to do, rather than something they want to do. 2025 is all about making reading fun – get involved on the 6th of March!

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Increase Your Professional Value Through Teaching and Reflecting

Teach Hub

As an educator your days are busy planning lessons, grading papers, and attending meetings. While it may seem like something always needs your attention, theres one practice that often gets overlooked: self-reflection. You likely know that incorporating self-reflection into your daily or weekly routine is important. However, time can feel like a major hurdle, and finding an efficient method that works for you may seem challenging.

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Pedigree Chart Basics

MooMoo Math & Science

A quick summary of Pedigree chart basics. Pedigree Chart Symbols and Lines: A circle denotes a female, a square represents a male. Shading indicates the presence of a trait or disease. Lines illustrate relationships: a horizontal line connects a couple (marriage line), a vertical line shows offspring (line of descent), and a horizontal line connecting siblings indicates their relationship (sibling line).

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Clevertouch Max 2: Your Panel, Your Way

Box Light

Empowering Schools with Unmatched Flexibility At Boxlight, we believe innovation should be driven by the real needs of educators and organizations. Thats why were excited to introduce the Clevertouch Max 2 the first interactive display under our unified Clevertouch brand. This interactive panel represents a major step forward in our commitment to delivering seamless, intuitive, and future-ready technology for classrooms and collabora tive spaces.

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Reimagining Career Possibilities: Helping Students See What They Can Be

Defined Learning

Many students struggle to envision futures they havent seen represented. Learn about the importance of exposing students to diverse career paths by integrating career-connected learning into education early, empowering students to explore broader possibilities and pursue their passions.

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Harnessing The Power Of Math Manipulatives

Mathematics, a subject steeped in abstract concepts, often poses challenges to students, especially those in grades 5-10. But imagine a bridge that transformed this intricate maze into an interactive adventure.

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Feb 13, AP Calculus AB Problems with Solutions (Part - 12)

Online Math for All

AP Calculus AB Problems with Solutions (Part - 12)

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Making Science Stick: The Engaging Power of Hands-On Learning

ED Week

How can you make science class the highlight of your students day while achieving learning outcomes? Find out in this session.

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