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How Desk Chairs Became a Lesson About What We Deserve in Public Schools

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It is not often that we see an overhaul of the furniture in our public school classrooms, let alone in the middle of the school year. In this role, we often operate in what we can deal with and less what we deserve as public school educators. What Our Students Deserve Our public school students deserve the world.

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17 K-8 Digital Citizenship Topics

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Education is no longer contained within classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. Do it the same way parents have always taught students to be safe in their physical neighborhoods: a little bit at a time, with age-appropriate information that’s repeated like a mantra: Don’t talk to strangers.

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How VR Can Be an ‘Empathy Machine’ for Education

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The hope is that the immersive technology will provide a shift of perspective that’s simply impossible in the physical world, but can be simulated in emerging virtual reality spaces. Flying around like a bee, she says, helps users “really embody this moment that we are living in — of climate change and some of the choices we make.”

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‘My Job, Like the Anaconda in My Dream, Is Consuming Me.’

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Perhaps, but I was struck by the familiarity of being physically and mentally overwhelmed. It’s discovering that some of your local school board members, who are supposed to support public education, are backed by political groups that want to destroy it. It’s hearing people say, “Public schools are failing!” Why an anaconda?

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Wherefore Art Thou, Physics Teacher?

National Science Foundation

Although it is perhaps a bit peculiar to apply Shakespeare to physics teaching career contemplations, the notoriously misinterpreted question of “ Wherefore art thou ?” We believe it is vital to scrutinize the “wherefores” of successful physics teachers, in both the classic meaning ( why teach physics?) 2021; Shah-Amoah 2020).

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Center for Astrophysics: Public Observatory Night online, Mar. 16

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The Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics will host its Public Observatory Night online on March 16 , 7PM-8PM, with a livestream of Monitoring Air Pollution from Space , presented by Caroline Nowlan, a physicist in the CfA’s Atomic and Molecular Physics Division.

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Bringing Better STEM Education to the Rural South

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Think Like a Scientist The lessons focus on chemistry and physics, two “gatekeeper” subjects that are typically seen as more difficult, Schneider says. The researchers are looking at public high schools with higher-than- average proportions of students from low-income backgrounds and students of color.

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