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Rethinking High School Computer Science

Computer Science Teacher

I love programming. I took a computer science course as an undergraduate and really fell in love with programming.While I made my living writing code for many years, my wife once wondered if I would have been happier with coding as an avocation rather than a vocation. Thats a bias I have no doubt taken in my teaching career. But is it the right bias for developing high school CS curriculum?

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Can Colleges Do More to Help Students Succeed?

ED Surge

Near the beginning of every semester, Sarah Z. Johnson has her students make her a promise: If they think about dropping the class, they will meet with her first. While many of the students roll their eyes, it may save at least one student a year, says Johnson, who is a writing instructor and head of the writing center at Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin.

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What You Might Have Missed in February–What’s up in March

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are the most-read posts for the past month: 13 Online Resources About Kids News Resources Random Acts of Kindness Day is Coming. How Will You Celebrate? Integrating Technology in Education for Modern Classrooms 11 Valentine Sites For Students K-2 How to Make Learning Math More Interactive and Engaging Engineers Week Feb. 16-22 2025 Presidents Day Activities Feb. 17, 2025 Unlocking Learning Fun: How Educational Bini Games Foster Child Development Tech Tip #107: Ways to Avoid Phishing 25+ Vid

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How to Reduce Teacher Stress: Self-Care Strategies for 2025

Cool Cat Teacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In the demanding world of education, self-care for teachers is more crucial than ever. With the high burnout rates and compassion fatigue prevalent in teaching, finding effective teacher burnout solutions is essential. Mindfulness in education, educator mental health, and gratitude practice for teachers are powerful strategies that can transform the teaching experience.

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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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British Science Week: Tim Peake – Space Live Lesson

All About STEM

British Science Week is a 10-day celebration of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) taking place 7-16 March 2025, and this year’s theme is ‘Change & Adapt’ To celebrate British Science Week, BBC Teach will stream a KS2 Live Lesson so learners can discover what it takes to become an astronaut!

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How to Leverage AI Tutors for Effective Learning Tips for Parents, Educators, and Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

Generative AI is all anyone in education talks about anymore so the Ask a Tech Teacher team wanted to provide a collection of tips for using AI as a tutor. Rather than us introducing this article, we thought we’d like Grok do it himself: Hey there, Im Grok 3, built by xAI, and Im stoked to kick off this article on rocking your learning with AI tutors!

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Effectively Addressing Disruptive Behavior in the Classroom

Teach Hub

Whether a student is constantly interrupting their teachers lesson or quietly texting in class, any type of disruptive behavior can throw a wrench into the lesson plan. Managing these behaviors can be difficult and feel overwhelming. The key is to understand why this behavior is occurring, learn how to respond to it properly and create an environment that minimizes any classroom disruptions in the first place.

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International Women’s Day: Digital & Printable Resources

All About STEM

Celebrate International Women’s Day in the lead up to the 8th of March with these fantastic resources! This year’s theme is Accelerate Action: “Focusing on the need to Accelerate Action emphasizes the importance of taking swift and decisive steps to achieve gender equality.” – IWD Let’s forge a diverse, equal, equitable, and inclusive world together!

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As Schools Prioritize Digital Literacy, My Students Are Being Left Behind

ED Surge

San Francisco is seen as a global tech capital, yet even here, high school students are shockingly ill-equipped to survive in the modern digital age. The school where I teach science is nestled in the historic Mission District of San Francisco, mere miles from the sprawling campuses of X, Meta and Google. During the pandemic, our district embodied this tech-forward identity by providing Chromebooks and hotspots for all students to go fully remote for an entire academic year of virtual learning.

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Harnessing The Power Of Math Manipulatives

Mathematics, a subject steeped in abstract concepts, often poses challenges to students, especially those in grades 5-10. But imagine a bridge that transformed this intricate maze into an interactive adventure.

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Didn’t Get in College? Interested in the Military? Try NAPS

Ask a Tech Teacher

The Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS) is located on Naval Station Newport in historic Newport, Rhode Island. The Naval Academy Preparatory School is the Navy’s fourth oldest school; only the Naval Academy, Naval War College, and Naval Post Graduate School are older. The mission of the Naval Academy Preparatory School is to enhance midshipman candidates’ moral, mental, and physical foundations to prepare them for success at the U.S.

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When Students’ Attention Wanders, Switch It Up

Middle Web

Recently Stephanie Farley was reminded that just because a classroom strategy or routine worked for a few weeks or months earlier in the year doesnt mean it will continue to work through spring. She and several colleagues offer tips to switch it up for students and reengage. The post When Students Attention Wanders, Switch It Up first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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The UK Careers Fair: Liverpool

All About STEM

You can visit the UK Careers Fair at Anfield Stadium on Friday, the 10th of October 2025, to apply directly for hundreds of vacancies and meet local and national employers face-to-face.

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Early Numeracy as a Cornerstone of Long-Term Academic Success

ED Surge

Early literacy often dominates conversations around foundational learning in todays educational system. However, despite the emphasis on STEM in later years, the importance of early numeracy in shaping long-term academic success is equally critical yet sometimes overlooked. Recognizing the role of early numeracy skills in academic and career readiness can unlock transformative opportunities for student success.

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Subscriber Special: 50% Off Sidebar Sponsors

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. March 5-15th 50% discount on sidebar sponsors (instead of $100 per month, you get the same program for $50 a month) Required: Minimum of 6 months paid in advance, or $300 We place your logo and link in the blog sidebar. Additionally, once a month, Ill share an optional update on your product with my readers (which you write).

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CS doesn’t have a monopoly on computing education: Programming is for everyone

Computing Education Research Blog

I participated at the first SIGCSE Virtual Conference last December. I was on a panel Assessments for Non-CS Major Computing Classes (see the ACM DL paper here ). The panelists were excellent. I was excited to meet Permit Chilana who came up with the idea of conversational programmer in her 2015 VL/HCC paper. Her talk was particularly relevant to me because she emphasized how she is studying business students, not computer science students her research is about how non-CS students interact with

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CREST Gold Awards: Learners 16+

All About STEM

During a CREST Gold Award learners can hone their investigative skills and employ scientific methods to conduct their own piece of research. Stretch your 16+ students with a long-term, open-ended project! CREST Gold – The Challenge Students must complete a project that makes an original contribution to a STEM field of study and submit their findings via the online platform.

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Cultivating Joy Among the 'Community of Learners'

ED Surge

Nita Creekmore is coauthor of Every Connection Matters: How to Build, Maintain, and Restore Relationships Inside the Classroom and Out. A longtime instructional coach, presenter and education consultant, Creekmore has returned to the classroom as a fifth-grade teacher. In this interview with Educational Leadership magazine, Creekmore discussed how she approaches each day with joy and purpose.

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Student Choice: Why Students Should Choose Their Own Books

Teach Hub

When students are allowed to pick the books they read, something magical happens. They become more engaged, motivated, and confident readers. When you think back to your own classroom experience, being assigned a book to read as a class was often a dreadful experience. Teachers would assign students to read a classic like Tom Sawyer and instead of being enamored with this classic tale, students were often less than thrilled.

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A Strategy to Help MLs with Sentence Transition

Middle Web

Tan Huynh shares an effective, easy-to-implement process to teach multilinguals how to organize their academic writing by building sentence-by-sentence transitions. See how he leads students through the process of applying time-based transitions and subordinating conjunctions. The post A Strategy to Help MLs with Sentence Transition first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Empowering the Future: Celebrating Women's History Month in the Classroom

Defined Learning

March is a time to recognize women's remarkable contributions throughout history and empower young learners to explore their own potential. It began as a week-long celebration in a California school district in 1978, where students participated in a real woman essay contest. The event drew a lot of attention, which inspired more school districts and organizations across the United States to participate.

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Top 5 Trends in Virtual Reality for Education

PCS Edventures

Virtual reality (VR) is no longer a futuristic concept. Its actively reshaping education by making learning more interactive, engaging, and hands-on. Schools and universities are using VR to bridge the gap between theory and practice , allowing students to explore science, history, and technology in fully immersive environments. From virtual field trips to teaching students how to design their own VR applications , the role of virtual reality in education continues to grow.

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ASK Webinar: How to impress in the apprenticeship application process

All About STEM

Insider information! Amazing Apprenticeships is offering an ASK Apprenticeships Webinar packed with top tips on how young people can stand out when applying for apprenticeships! Join the session and hear from apprentices and employers sharing their advice on the best ways to impress in the recruitment process.

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Leadership Strategies to Build Teacher Morale

Middle Web

Improving Teacher Morale and Motivation by Ronald Williamson and Barbara Blackburn provides school leaders with key strategies for directly addressing teacher morale and effectiveness. Systems coach Matt Renwick reflects on three of the book's valuable principles. The post Leadership Strategies to Build Teacher Morale first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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How to make a frequency table

MooMoo Math & Science

Creating a Cumulative Frequency Table: Steps Involved The process involves defining equal and non-overlapping intervals encompassing all data points, tallying data within each interval, and then calculating cumulative frequencies by adding the current interval's frequency to the previous interval's cumulative frequency. This running total is the defining characteristic of a cumulative frequency table.

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Esports & Game Design in Education

PCS Edventures

More Than Just Playing Games! Students love video games. In fact, a recent study found that 85% of U.S. teens play video games regularly (Gottfried & Sidoti, 2024). But what if schools could take that passion and channel it into something moresomething that enhances engagement, boosts academic performance, and builds essential skills for the future?

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Introducing a New “Learn and Earn” Certification Model

CTE Learning

We are proud to introduce a new model for teachers to reward their career and technical students with international industry-recognized certifications. Read on for how our new model provides schools, teachers, students and parents with a better alternative to the old model of students earning certifications. The Old Way We all know the traditional model of earning a certification: the school proctors an exam, usually from a testing company that sells the exams.

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Mar 2, AP Calculus AB Problems with Solutions (Part - 17)

Online Math for All

AP Calculus AB Problems with Solutions (Part - 17)

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4 Unique and Unusual Owls

MooMoo Math & Science

Four unusual and interesting Owls. Snowy Owl: The snowy owl, a large white owl inhabiting North America's Arctic regions, possesses exceptional camouflage in snowy environments due to its white plumage. Its thick feathers provide protection against extreme cold, and unlike many owls, it hunts during daylight, primarily feeding on lemmings. Elf Owl and Burrowing Owl: The elf owl, one of the world's smallest owls, inhabits southwestern US and Mexican deserts, nesting in cacti.

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How to Integrate STEM into Your Gifted & Talented Program

Vivify Stem

Post by Lauren Kelly Posted: March 9, 2025 Are you looking to elevate your Gifted and Talented program with exciting, hands-on STEM learning? My journey into STEM education started during my student teaching experience, and since then, Ive discovered how perfectly STEM and GT can work together to ignite student passion and creativity. In this post, Ill share key similarities between STEM and GT learning goals, successful project ideas, and real-world examples from my classroom.

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