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Primary CREST: RSPB Big Schools’ Birdwatch 2024

All About STEM

Resources are available for all who apply and there’s flexibility to run it with any age group of children. If so, they can further their learning with a CREST Award! Every year, educators from across the UK take part in The Big Schools’ Birdwatch with their classes.

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Primary CREST: RSPB Big Schools’ Birdwatch 2023

All About STEM

There’s plenty of flexibility to run it with any age group of children and resources to help. If your learners are taking part in the RSPB Big Schools’ Birdwatch they can utilise their observations and further their learning with a CREST Award! Take part anytime from the 6th of January.

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22+ Tips on How to Work Remotely

Ask a Tech Teacher

Vacations, conferences, PD–all these take us away from our primary functions and the environment where we are most comfortable delivering our best work. All it took to get these remote systems started was a problem that required a solution and flexible risk-taking stakeholders who came up with answers.

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As Child Care Challenges Threaten the American Workforce, Business Leaders Call for Action

ED Surge

We believe offering flexibility, child care support and progressive benefits will help us win the war for talent; drive equity, diversity and inclusion in our workforce; and ultimately drive strong business results.” At Synchrony, 60 percent of our workforce are women. Among them were current and former business leaders at Pizza Hut, Yahoo!,

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How AI Can Address Critical Challenges Facing Higher Education

ED Surge

Students who choose that route expect greater flexibility, personalization and real-world relevance in their education. Dahlgren I look at leveraging AI in three primary ways. Rising tuition costs, concerns about employability and alternative credentialing options have fueled this conversation.

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

ED Surge

At the K-12 level, there’s been a push to create more flexibility in the school day for “immersive experiences,” like internships and hands-on projects, from players such as XQ Institute, the nonprofit supported by Emerson Collective that since 2015 has poured millions of dollars into efforts across the country to “rethink high school.”

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Want Students Who Think for Themselves? Let’s Eliminate Our Standardized School System

ED Surge

The primary purpose of grading is to communicate a student’s achievement of learning goals. I believe in a system with less standardized learning and more emphasis on flexible deadlines, peer collaboration and teaching, smaller learning communities, and sharing learning through authentic public showcases.

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