Fri.Sep 23, 2022

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Bringing Restorative Justice to Schools Must Start With Community

ED Surge

There was no emotion on the eighth grader’s face. No anger, no sadness, no frustration. Her body sat rigidly upright in the chair in the principal’s office, motionless. Her eyes focused on a point straight ahead, far away. “Esme,” the principal said (and this is not the student’s real name). “Can you start from the beginning? What happened at the start of P.E. class?

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Adding Integers with a Number Line and Rules for Addition of Integers

Basic-Mathematics

Adding integers using a number line or the rules for adding integers to find the sums of positive and negative integers.

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Best STEM Competitions

Career in STEM

The beauty of learning STEM is that education continues even beyond the classroom. It is in this area especially, where students can engage with topics hands-on and learn about real-life applications for their work. Combine that with team collaboration, competitiveness, confidence, risk-taking, and exciting prizes and you’re entering the wonderfully exciting world of STEM competitions!

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Adding Fractions with the Same or Different Denominators

Basic-Mathematics

This lesson will teach you about adding fractions when they have the same or different denominators.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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Biomimicry

STEMe

Toronto, ON What is Biomimicry? Some of humanity’s most impressive creations were not invented by man, but by nature. This is no surprise since nature could be considered the most pronounced innovator and has practically perfected the functionality of all living organisms via evolution and adaptation. And through the existence of the different models and elements that various organisms gained as a result of their transformation, not only can we further deepen our understanding of the world aroun

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Robot Teachers vs Human Teachers:

Ask a Tech Teacher

Simona Johnes, editor-in-chief of Science and Literacy , an educational blog for teachers and parents, did some research into a topic that is of growing concern to my fellow teachers: Robots in the classrom. Here’s an interesting article comparing the pros and cons of robots vs. humans: . I recently came across an article published by Ohio State University that mentioned how several industries are using robots to get their jobs done, and the use of robotics is only expected to grow.

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Schools Are Adding Counselors. But Can They Make the Gains Permanent?

ED Surge

For years now, there’s been a growing push to provide more and better counseling services to students at all levels of the public school system. But in the last two-and-a-half years, especially, the need for counseling professionals has been recognized like never before. Thanks to that burgeoning public awareness, plus hundreds of millions of dollars in federal relief funding for schools, districts have been able to beef up their counseling staffs and better serve the students in their care—a re

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Key Digital Skills for 21st Century Teachers

Educators Technology

We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist. using technologies that haven’t yet been invented. in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet. (Richard Riley, Secretary of Education under Clinton, quoted in Trilling & Fadel, 2009, p. 3) Technology has become a major player in the pedagogical equation.In fact, this was the case even before the pandemic but those technophobes of us in education did not want to acknowledge it until they were forced to full