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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. however, with insufficient and lagging data from schools, this research has its limitations.

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Making Children's Media about STEM More Inclusive

ED Surge

He’s applying his research as a creative producer for a new show on PBS called Work It Out Wombats! Then he switched careers to become a kindergarten teacher and later a high school teacher before going back to get a doctorate in education from Stanford University. Kareem Edouard: The primary work with my production hat is nuance.

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The First Days of the School Year: It’s About the Learners Not the Content

User Generated Education

Too many classes, all grade levels, begin the school year with getting down to academic business – starting to cover content, discussing expectations regarding academic requirements, giving tests, and other academic information provided by the teacher to the students in a mostly one-way communication.

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Should Play Be Part of the School Day?

Carly and Adam

All of these types of play, along with using our imagination and having fun, can also happen at school! While it may happen at home, there is definitely a place for play in school. This post will share key ideas on the importance of play and where it fits into the school day.

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Are Personal Learning Networks the Key to Keeping Teachers?

ED Surge

Yet, if adding new teachers to the roster is to be a lasting solution to this growing problem, schools and districts must be able to effectively support and retain those newcomers once they are hired. The program is designed to support innovative elementary and secondary school teachers across the U.S. and Canada.

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Ohio Fifth Graders Flex Their Rocketry Muscles

STEM Education Works

I recently got a chance to talk to a friend that I met back in my grad school days at Kent State. Edward “Chip” Hawks is a Gifted Intervention Specialist in Kent, OH who organizes and implements STEM programs with students in the Kent City School District. (I For today’s blog, we have a special treat for you! Then came the fun part.

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

ED Surge

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. And the fact that students learn valuable lessons in the many hours they spend outside of the classroom, too, before school, after school , on the weekends and in the summer. .

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