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Coding for Kids: How to Boost Academic Achievement

PCS Edventures

Coding boosts academic achievement while simultaneously embedding life-long skills in learners. Elementary-aged learners are capable of providing computers with instructions to achieve a specific outcome through code! Coding is an exhilarating and engaging method that boosts academic achievement and fosters life-long skills.

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22+ Tips on How to Work Remotely

Ask a Tech Teacher

Vacations, conferences, PD–all these take us away from our primary functions and the environment where we are most comfortable delivering our best work. All it took to get these remote systems started was a problem that required a solution and flexible risk-taking stakeholders who came up with answers. What did I miss?

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Want Students Who Think for Themselves? Let’s Eliminate Our Standardized School System

ED Surge

The primary purpose of grading is to communicate a student’s achievement of learning goals. I believe in a system with less standardized learning and more emphasis on flexible deadlines, peer collaboration and teaching, smaller learning communities, and sharing learning through authentic public showcases.

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What If We Measured Learning Through Skills Gained, Not Time Spent in the Classroom?

ED Surge

At the K-12 level, there’s been a push to create more flexibility in the school day for “immersive experiences,” like internships and hands-on projects, from players such as XQ Institute, the nonprofit supported by Emerson Collective that since 2015 has poured millions of dollars into efforts across the country to “rethink high school.”

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This Program Is Empowering the Next Generation of Computational Thinkers

ED Surge

We’ve developed a comprehensive and flexible curriculum intended for mass adoption. Global Benchmarking of Computational Thinking Education in Primary Schools. We aim to focus our strategic efforts on achieving results in a few specific areas. PD will be scaled to build teacher capacity for the whole primary education sector.

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American Students Deserve a Multilingual Education

ED Surge

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. The answer? Not enough. however, with insufficient and lagging data from schools, this research has its limitations.

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STEM vs STEAM: What Are The Differences?

The Maker Mom

The primary aim of a STEM program is to position students on a track to pursue a college career and occupation in these fields. It is useful to think of STEM as the discipline most concerned with proper processes to achieve optimal results. In the end, they are both attempting to achieve the best results possible. What is STEM?

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