ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As our family has been navigating the complexity of supporting our neurodivergent daughter to thrive in our local public school, I’ve found myself drawing up this metaphorical story of three young trees, which has become symbolic for me. When I requested to have her evaluated for additional support at school, I was told to give her time.

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JULY 24, 2024

They already visit web-based edutainment sites as early as preschool, use ‘Instagram’ and multi-player XBox games in elementary school, and have made text messaging and Facebook their communication of choice by Middle School. Children, as new digital citizens, think they can say/do anything anonymously and with impunity.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

School administrators and teachers are feeling the fatigue, as well as their jobs become increasingly dependent on computer and phone usage. Years ago, I took the lead in writing a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy for my school site, which was later adopted by my district. So what gives in the post-pandemic world? .

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Graphing is an important skill for students whether they go to college after High School or start a career. Problem Solving : Graphs provide a way to solve problems and make predictions. It teaches: Visualization and Understanding : Graphing helps students visually represent data, functions, and relationships.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2024

STEM identity can last a lifetime and help students thrive in school, future careers and life. As the demand for digital skills grows, schools must develop inclusive programs to engage diverse learners. Preparing future global innovators takes a district-wide team of facilitators, classroom teachers and school administrators.

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JULY 20, 2023

Here are some you’ll like: Apollo 11: Countdown to Launch via Google Earth Apollo 11 VR Google Moon –see the Moon in 3D with your Google Earth app How we are going to the Moon –video If the Moon Were Only One Pixel… JFK Challenge — takes kids to the Apollo 11 NASA Educator Guide to the Moon (for teachers) NASA’s Musical Playlist (..)

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

They take lots of critical thinking, problem-solving, and are worth the effort! A Holiday Newsletter in Publisher for Elementary School. A Holiday Calendar in MS Publisher for Elementary School. Phone call from Santa. Santa Tracker. Holiday lesson plans here ! Let me know how these go: 16 Holiday Projects.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

They take lots of critical thinking, problem-solving, and are worth the effort! A Holiday Calendar in MS Publisher for Elementary School. Let me know how these go: 16 Holiday Projects. Holiday Newsletter. A Holiday Card in KidPix. A Holiday Memory in Word or KidPix. A Holiday Letter for Grades 2-6.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. It’s common for her to hear, “Oh, you know, I decided to be an elementary school teacher because I don't want to teach math.”

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Many schools were adopting social-emotional learning programs and frameworks, weaving practices that support social and emotional development into various parts of the school day and reporting material improvements in student behavior and outcomes. What does it look like to teach SEL in school?

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ED Surge

MAY 22, 2023

This week marks one year since an unspeakable act of violence was carried out in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. One year since a gunman stole the lives of 19 fourth graders and two teachers at Robb Elementary. EdSurge: Walk me through what it looks like when you go into a school community following a traumatic event.

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DECEMBER 9, 2016

They take lots of critical thinking, problem-solving, and are worth the effort! A Holiday Newsletter in Publisher for Elementary School. A Holiday Calendar in MS Publisher for Elementary School. Phone call from Santa. Santa Tracker. Holiday lesson plans here ! Let me know how these go: 16 Holiday Projects.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

They take lots of critical thinking, problem-solving, and are worth the effort! A Holiday Newsletter in Publisher for Elementary School. A Holiday Calendar in MS Publisher for Elementary School. Phone call from Santa. Santa Tracker. Holiday lesson plans here ! Let me know how these go: 16 Holiday Projects.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Life is much simpler when you–as a parent or teacher–can point to one solution for a problem, solve it, and everything is golden. Success in school was like that when grades were the barometer and studying harder was the tool. Extend this activity by solving three more problems found on this video.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ray Salazar has been teaching high school Journalism and English in Chicago Public Schools for over twenty years. According to a study conducted by Challenge Success, a school reform nonprofit, high school students are already doing more homework than they were before the pandemic, averaging 3 hours of homework a night, up from 2.7

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

One of the most difficult skills to teach in school is problem solving. We talk about what that means–problem solving, critical analysis, logical thinking–but often, that sounds hard to them–too hard. I don’t think schools can manage without coding and STEM. No animations. Just content.

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Carly and Adam

JANUARY 16, 2025

Developing an effective STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) curriculum for elementary students is crucial for fostering critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills. How Do You Build an Elementary STEM Curriculum? Ask yourself: What skills do I want students to develop?

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APRIL 30, 2015

debugging–write-edit-rewrite; problem-solve; when you make a mistake, you don’t throw your hands into the air or call for an expert. logic–thinking through a problem from A to Z, understanding the predictability of movements. Kodable now offers a curriculum for elementary school. Conclusion.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 6, 2024

Today, I interviewed Barb Flowers, an elementary school principal and host of the Teacher Burnout Podcast and the Less Stressed Principal Podcast. Subscribe to the Show This week's guest Barb Flowers, an elementary school principal and seasoned educator life coach, brings 14 years of invaluable experience in education.

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JUNE 21, 2022

Schools have begun to recognize the value of esports, with more than 8,600 US high schools having started video-gaming teams since 2018. Players must program a backend strategy and use their coding and problem-solving skills to outsmart competitors. The CodeCombat AI League takes a unique approach.

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DECEMBER 1, 2015

They take lots of critical thinking, problem-solving, and are worth the effort! A Holiday Newsletter in Publisher for Elementary School. A Holiday Calendar in MS Publisher for Elementary School. Here are some great projects to keep your children tech-involved over the holidays. Holiday Newsletter.

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User Generated Education

APRIL 22, 2022

Why Schools Should Teach Entrepreneurship ). But elementary school-age kids do have the natural curiosity, imagination, drive, and ability to come up with innovative ways to change the world for the better. Communication, collaboration, and problem solving are built into the learning process.

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JULY 15, 2019

These automated humanoid bots often interact with users, require critical thinking and problem-solving, and grab the imagination of students in ways that makes everyone want to learn. The Elementary Wonder Pack: Comes with Wonder’s award-winning Dash and Dot robots, accessories, and curriculum guides. Prize Option One.

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JULY 8, 2019

Programs are geared to the particular learning of Elementary and Middle School, and Middle and High School with games and lessons aligned to state and national standards like Common Core, TEKS and MAFS. There are about 118 games, sorted by age group (grades 3-5, 6-8, and high school) and subject, including: Algebra Four.

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MARCH 21, 2018

Finding webtools for high school classes requires a different set of metrics than those that apply to lower and middle school searches. By high school, the pressure to prepare students for their future is immense. It can be filtered by type (activity, model, or sequence) and grade (from elementary to higher education).

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. however, with insufficient and lagging data from schools, this research has its limitations. The answer?

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

Gerstein teaches gifted education at a Title 1 school within Santa Fe Public Schools and graduate-level online courses for Walden and Antioch Universities. They articulated how they would and would not use [AI-assisted text generators] at school and built the ethics with their understanding and discussion.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Kids are learning – but for way too many it occurs outside of the school environment rather than during school. Given today’s technologies, it makes sense and is exciting that learning occurs after schools hours, but for exciting, engaging, and profound learning not to occur during school hours is, simply put, a travesty.

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JUNE 6, 2018

Parents and caregivers can help slow down the slide and even help their children gain important skills for the following school year. Debi DePaul is ORIGO’s elementary mathematics consultant. 6 Tech Activities for Your Summer School Program. months of learning. Young children especially benefit from fun math games. said DePaul.

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Talk STEM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

talkSTEM resources can work in conjunction with the new Eureka Math curriculum, launched this school year across the Dallas Independent School District, encouraging students not just to learn, but to ask why. Megan teaches 4th grade Math at Mockingbird Elementary in Dallas ISD. Share and Enjoy ! appeared first on talkSTEM.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In a fifth-grade class at Redlands Unified School District in California, students sit in pairs, building LEGO® Education robots that hop. They're also coding, measuring and problem-solving. It's the collaboration with fellow students, problem-solving and prototyping. It's a way of problem-solving.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Studies conducted by the University of Memphis have found that children who play chess significantly improve their visual memory, attention span, and spatial-reasoning ability … all important factors for success in school. Develops Decision Making and Problem-Solving Skills. Playing chess develops problem-solving skills in kids.

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JUNE 9, 2023

Picture the following: A student volunteers to answer a math question in an elementary school classroom. The teacher knows from working with the student previously that although she can easily follow the algorithmic steps of the math problem, she struggles with her reasoning and ability to make sense of the steps she is taking.

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MARCH 14, 2022

Here are the new science picture books for elementary grades. STEM Concepts: problem-solving, engineering and design. STEM Concepts: problem-solving, experiments. Not many women went to medical school back when Virginia Apgar did. I found this year’s list particularly good. The Beak Book.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

They take lots of critical thinking, problem-solving, and are worth the effort! A Holiday Newsletter in Publisher for Elementary School. A Holiday Calendar in MS Publisher for Elementary School. Phone call from Santa. Santa Tracker. Holiday lesson plans here ! Let me know how these go: 16 Holiday Projects.

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CSTEM

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The long-term learning gaps created by COVID-19 school closures, a rapidly shifting job market, and funding cuts in the current climate make access to STEM education more essential than ever. Its the key to unlocking critical thinking, problem-solving, and adaptability skills that will define success in the workforce of tomorrow.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Students’ perception is one of the most important nuances in primary school. Keywords: elementary school, STEM, STEM method. However, the target group of studies is for the most part high school children but rarely primary school children. Why is STEM important in primary schools? About STEM.

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