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I Love Being a Teacher, But I Can’t Survive on Compassion

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In 1998, I began my journey as an elementary teacher under the tutelage of my aunt and revered educator, Marva N. Once I entered the school building, a young man was being detained for his behavior. I asked the school officer if I could speak with him, and she reluctantly agreed.

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To Close the Math Achievement Gap, We Must Recognize What Students Bring to the Classroom

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Picture the following: A student volunteers to answer a math question in an elementary school classroom. As we think about the future of math classrooms, we continue to explore how academic standards and cultural, social and emotional development intersect to support learning mathematics.

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

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While shows like Abbott Elementary – which I especially love as a graduate of Philly Public Schools – try to show teachers as real, dynamic people with complexities and contradictions, few educators get to narrate the true power of the relationships we’ve been able to cultivate with our students. Victoria was in my U.S. History class.

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Is it STEM or a Craft?

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These examples are just some of the ways that STEM can be implemented in the elementary classroom. These projects don’t often have connections to content areas, and they may not reinforce any academic standards. It provides an academic purpose for the constructing, design, or experimenting that students are engaging in.

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How to Teach the Human Body and 16 Sites to Help

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As students progress through school, they dig deeper into concepts of body systems, organs, cells, diseases, and the importance of good health. Whether schools classify these topics as ‘health’ or ‘science’, the importance of understanding the processes that allow us to survive can’t be overstated.

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How to Qualify Online Tutoring Services

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Will you have your child be tutored even though they are doing okay in school? However, if they are from a different country try to find out if that country’s educational system and academic standard is the same or at par with your own country. Alternatively, do you wait until their grades are already slipping down?

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As STEM evolves, so does South Carolina’s Coalition for Mathematics & Science

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Additionally, we generate revenue through contracts with schools for specialized services, grants and gifts. That said, we work collaboratively with the state Department of Education to review and revise academic standards, promote computer science, support connections between STEM and career and technical education and more.