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Primary CREST: RSPB Big Schools’ Birdwatch 2024

All About STEM

Are your students taking part in the 2024 RSPB Big Schools’ Birdwatch? Every year, educators from across the UK take part in The Big Schools’ Birdwatch with their classes. Resources are available for all who apply and there’s flexibility to run it with any age group of children.

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Primary CREST: RSPB Big Schools’ Birdwatch 2023

All About STEM

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! Every year, educators from every corner of the UK take part in The Big Schools’ Birdwatch with their classes.

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

ED Surge

School is not the problem. This statement was shared by a former middle school student of mine during his freshman year of high school. John* was getting all A’s and one B in stark contrast to the B’s, C’s, and D’s received in middle school. But my school doesn’t work that way. Morita, you were wrong.

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Prepping for Back to School

STEM Discovery Education

The past few years have been anything but ordinary, and wrapping your head around a whole new school year can be… a lot. It’s important to take the time to look back on the last year, recognize challenges faced and lessons learned, and incorporate those experiences into prepping for this back-to-school season. Looking Back.

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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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Practical Ways to Develop School Leaders Now

Cool Cat Teacher

School leadership is more challenging than ever. Practical, encouraging ideas are shared throughout this show for principals, administrators, and anyone working to encourage school leaders. Practical, encouraging ideas are shared throughout this show for principals, administrators, and anyone working to encourage school leaders.

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How Can Teachers Prepare Students for an AI-Driven Future?

ED Surge

Recently, EdSurge spoke with Chelsey McClelland, a third-year social studies teacher at Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis who recently completed the ISTE U course Artificial Intelligence Explorations for Educators. And at first, our school blocked its use. EdSurge: Why did you decide to take the ISTE U AI course?