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JANUARY 1, 2023

Every year, January 1st is P ublic Domain Day. This is an observance of when copyrights expire and works enter into the public domain–free for all to use. According to Public Domain Review, here are some of the newly-available artistic works you might like a/o January 1, 2023: The picture above is interactive. If you click it, you enter Public Domain Review’s website and can then explore each of these new sources of inspiration, free to use.

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STEM Everyday Podcast

JANUARY 1, 2023

Andrea Mango is currently a STEAM teacher in New York, helping her students and others in her school see that being flexible helps build STEM skills. While teaching STEAM lessons to K-2 students, she started to realize that planning 45 minutes for an activity didn’t work. Kids would get into the lesson, and their excitement for learning ended up making the lesson last all day.

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Middle Web

JANUARY 1, 2023

Working together in small groups using a book club model has helped sixth graders in Sara Kugler’s K-6 school shift from passive and disinterested to engaged and self-reliant. They’re eager to read and ready to "talk books," writes the literacy coach and co-teacher. The post How We Use Book Clubs to Empower Our Readers first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Newton STEM

JANUARY 1, 2023

Mustang Math — a nonprofit organization of high-school and college volunteers — runs annual mathematics competitions in-person in Washington, DC and in California, as well as an online competition , which this year will be on April 29 (9AM-4:30PM PST). The competitions are centered on teamwork and collaboration. Teams of four students address challenging/interesting problems and develop strategies to master the unique and fun game-like rounds — including a logic-based puzzle ro

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Newton STEM

JANUARY 1, 2023

Future City is a four-month civil-engineering program for middle-school students, culminating in an annual design competition in January. This year, it will be January 21 at Wentworth Institute in Boston. The program seeks professional engineers (and others with relevant technical backgrounds) to volunteer as judges to evaluate the student teams’ work.

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Newton STEM

JANUARY 1, 2023

The New England Sci-Tech (NEST) STEM education center (16 Tech Circle, off Route 9 in Natick) offers clubs : STARS – Amateur Radio Club – Open to all ages, beginners to experts. Space Science Club – For all ages. Entrepreneurship Club – For teens and young adults. Rocketry Club – Model rocketry for all ages. Battlin’ Bots Club – Robotics competitions on Fridays, 6:30-7:30PM.

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