CTE Learning

APRIL 25, 2024

Private, parochial, charter and Christian schools are increasingly recognizing the shift in student interests away from four-year universities towards more career-oriented education pathways that mitigate the risk of debt. Each of our curricula include two soft skills modules: Ethics in the Workplace and Critical Thinking in the Workplace.

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 5, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. She covers ten essential points for being a successful education technology coach based on her research and her personal coaching of instructional technology coaches and teachers. Lumio sponsored this episode. Click Here to Get Your Free Account.

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User Generated Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

High ability math students from 4th through 6th grades attend. A few weeks ago he presented a problem that included chess knight moves. One of the students mentioned how much she loves to play chess. About a dozen students expressed interest. Develops Logic, Critical Thinking, and Creativity. She agreed.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s a digital world where internet users retain ownership of their online activities—their intellectual property, or IP—which are tracked by blockchains, which help everyone make money without having to rely on governments, institutions or corporations. That would be the block chain. At least, in theory. Could both answers be true?

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PCS Edventures

JANUARY 23, 2023

But what does resilience mean? Resilience is about thoughts, feelings and behaviors that can be learned, and can help you bounce back after facing adversity…building resilience in children is key to helping your child prepare for what the future may hold” (LaFountain, 2021). competence 2. confidence 3.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JULY 31, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Education technology has good uses, but as we’ve moved through the pandemic, sometimes it may have been mis-implemented or implemented without teacher PD. Also, you can save 20% off your next course by using the code CAT20. What do you think? [00:00:35]

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PCS Edventures

APRIL 16, 2024

But here’s the catch: Learners can lose a month's worth of academic progress during summer break (Cooper et al., What’s the secret to keeping learners engaged all summer? These programs focus on coding, encouraging learners to discover creative tech solutions. Summer is all about having fun, right?

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User Generated Education

AUGUST 13, 2020

Some of the issues that have emerged and are still emerging include: the social emotional health of learners, a realization that students aren’t able to be independent and self-directed learning, and an awareness of inequities that exist in the United States. Self-Determined Learning and Learner Agency.

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User Generated Education

JULY 24, 2017

I work part-time with elementary learners – with gifted learners during the school year and teaching maker education camps during the summer. These tasks are then graded as to the percentage correct and then the teacher moves onto the next task. This leads into a success building upon success behavioral cycle.

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CoderZ

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Despite the chaos and fun, the end of a calendar year brings an opportunity to reflect on the previous year and what we are most grateful for as we process and begin to think about the next semester and year ahead. Children are the future and what they learn today impacts how our world continues to turn tomorrow.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 17, 2015

With technology moving out of the lab and into the classroom, it’s becoming a challenge for some teachers to infuse their teaching with tech tools such as websites, educational games, simulations, iPads, Chromebooks, GAFE, and other geeky devices that used to be the purview of a select group of nerdy teachers. Ask for help.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

I’m a big believer in online web-based curricula that can be accessed from any browser, any digital device, any location. Its pages are visual and easy-to-understand, enabling teachers to quickly create lesson plans, find targeted resources, and determine how students are doing. What is the Kiddom-Open Up Resources Partnership?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 15, 2018

If there is a trait above all others that I want to imbue into my students, it is curiosity. I respect the job done by education programs around the world, but six to eight hours a day five days a week can only go so far. What does that mean? It’s about building lifelong learners. What is a lifelong learner?

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Carly and Adam

OCTOBER 19, 2021

We know what it looks like to complete a successful STEM challenge, and we know what it looks like when a STEM challenge goes very wrong. Can you relate? Occasionally you can hear a loud sigh come from her table or an occasional “Ugh!” Tell me what you’ve tried so far.” “How

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PCS Edventures

MARCH 15, 2022

It’s no wonder that STEM instruction lends itself so well to all learners, especially those with neurodevelopmental differences. With STEM, there is no one way to think or learn. Advocates encourage educators to use learners’ interests and strengths as a catalyst for meeting grade-level standards.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

We all have a memory of our favorite teacher, almost always, the one who made us think we could do the impossible. Some students learn differently. When I entered her class, I did think it was my fault, that I wasn’t smart enough, but she explained without a single word where I was wrong. In my case, it was Ms.

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STEM Education Works

MAY 17, 2022

To close out my blog posts for the school year, I interviewed eight public school teachers and librarians. What are three words you would use to describe the 2021/2022 school year? What are three words you would use to describe the 2021/2022 school year? What was your biggest challenge during the 2021/2022 school year?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Last year, only 61 percent of high school students who took the ACT English achievement test were deemed college-ready. We teachers recognize it is our fiduciary responsibility to fulfill state and national education standards that prepare students for college or career. This is where Mastery Education’s Measuring Up can help.

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Carly and Adam

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The following is a guest blog post by Jed Dearybury ! This is my third school year delivering play-based professional learning to the teachers there, and the administrators asked that I focus our day of learning on critical thinking. Critical Thinking” a buzzword we hear often in the EDU world, especially in STEM spaces.

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PCS Edventures

AUGUST 23, 2022

Educators are professional jugglers, balancing everything from daily responsibilities to their mental health and that of their learners. It’s rewarding, but keeping everything in the air at once can be exhausting. Both programs can be used interchangeably to enhance learning in traditional and out-of-school settings.

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PCS Edventures

OCTOBER 6, 2022

How do we unlock a learning environment filled with excited, on-task learners who effectively collaborate and discuss the lesson’s content? The key is implementing lessons that develop skills essential for success. Collaborative, interactive STEAM lessons naturally foster learners’ executive functioning skills.

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Carly and Adam

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Great read aloud selections help to engage young learners and introduce them to interesting topics. This is particularly true in kindergarten when teachers gather students together to listen to stories each day. Ricky’s friends work together to find a way to help him roll, so that he can play and have fun, too.

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Carly and Adam

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The noises of curious learners working and questioning. Chairs moving and the teacher getting everyone’s attention. The students, mostly 3rd and 4th graders had been working on this project for the last couple of weeks. What is an After-School STEM Club? Things got quiet. Then a countdown in unison.

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STEM Sport

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This can be accredited to the rapidly rising STEM workforce that needs to be filled by qualified, innovative workers in the future. The key to providing quality STEM education to students is teachers. The key to providing quality STEM education to students is teachers. Gives Students Education Application Experience.

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Carly and Adam

JANUARY 25, 2023

Having a budget helps and access to materials and resources are great, but let’s face it, not all STEM spaces are created equal. The good news is, you can engage your students in STEM with just a few simple things. Top 5 Tips and Tricks for Teaching STEM to Elementary Students: Have Growth Mindset. Find Your STEM PLN.

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National Science Foundation

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Struggle is a regular part of mathematics class: students struggle to get started, to carry out a process, to express misconceptions and errors, and with “uncertainty in explaining and sense-making” (Warshauer, 2015, p. Generating Mathematically Productive Struggle.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Here are her suggestions: We live in an extremely stimulating and dynamic era, and it’s hard to predict what is going to happen tomorrow, let alone in the next few years. Modern teachers and educators need to adapt and keep up with the trends because that’s what their students are doing. by Alice Keeler and Libbi Miller.

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Carly and Adam

JANUARY 31, 2022

This blog post contains Amazon affiliate links. 14 Diverse STEM Picture Books for Elementary Students Our classroom libraries and the stories that we share with our students should be reflective of the diversity that makes up our world. Think about the ways that water can be used to help others.

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Carly and Adam

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Within our classrooms, young learners are striving to be problem solvers, designers, and explorers. Some students are eager to code robots and others want to grow a vegetable garden. The Scientific Method STEM learning is an opportunity to engage students in lessons that prompt them to think, plan, experiment, and invent.

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National Science Foundation

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

When thinking about science education during the pandemic, a critical theme emerged: space matters. Science and science education needs to be responsive, and the SciTech TEAMS Program is an example of how teacher preparation can be responsive to the challenges in society and education. 2021; Ray & Srivastava, 2020).

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STEM Discovery Education

OCTOBER 6, 2022

we are asking you to pose the questions, leave questions unanswered if necessary, explore ideas, and push one another to think deeper in a way that we can’t do in the day-to-day of the job.”. During his current tenure as Superintendent of Ithaca City Schools, the district has experienced unprecedented levels of success.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

MARCH 18, 2022

This article originally appeared earlier this week at Grading for Growth , a blog about alternative grading practices that I co-author with my colleague David Clark. In one of the earliest posts on this blog, we took a look at what all of the different alternative grading systems out there seem to have in common.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

It was originally posted at the old Casting Out Nines blog at the Chronicle. My own contribution to those debates remains the single most viewed post I’ve ever published in nearly ten years of blogging. I picked this one today for a reason; go to the end to find out. “Look at page 14,” Dave said.

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User Generated Education

MAY 5, 2018

Institutionalized education has given assessment a bad reputation; often leaves a sour taste in the mouths of many teachers, students, and laypeople. This is primarily due to the testing movement, the push towards using student assessment in the form of tests as a measure of student, teacher, principal, and school accountability.

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STEM Discovery Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

we are asking you to pose the questions, leave questions unanswered if necessary, explore ideas, and push one another to think deeper in a way that we can’t do in the day-to-day of the job.”. During his current tenure as Superintendent of Ithaca City Schools, the district has experienced unprecedented levels of success.

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User Generated Education

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

pI often read via social media about the importance of student centered, student-driven instruction. My blog post is called User-Generated Education for a reason. We did what was called Huddle-Up Circles. Everyone stopped what they were doing to gather in a circle to discuss the problem and generate solutions.

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National Science Foundation

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

2011; Strutchens & Martin, 2013; and others) have been exploring teacher leadership as a mechanism for preparing and supporting teachers to make classrooms equitable for all students. In this blog, we share three case studies of teacher leaders. For over twenty years, several mathematics education initiatives (Campbell et al.,

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