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What New Research Says About Fostering a ‘Sense of Belonging’ in Classrooms

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Research shows that everybody finds things like that annoying, but if you're a first-generation college student, those start to trigger worries about belonging, because there's a belonging uncertainty there,” he says. Walton has spent decades researching how to foster a stronger sense of belonging in education settings.

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Research Quest: Free Middle School Science Project-Based Learning

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Research Quest sponsored this blog post. Sign up for Research Quest Easy Access to Engaging Science Projects When you sign up for a free teacher account, you'll receive a special code that allows your students to dive into these investigations without needing their own accounts. Sign up for Research Quest 2. And the best part?

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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

Educators Technology

Scientific knowledge is proliferating in an unprecedented rate with an increasing number of journal articles and research papers published every year across various disciplines from humanities to medicine and technology. As researchers, our research stands on the shoulders of other researchers.

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PCAS Expansion, Growth, Research, and SIGCSE 2024 Presentations

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Several of these courses are collaborations with other departments, like our Discovery classes with Physics, Biophysics, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Linguistics. Research in PCAS We’re starting to publish some of what we’re learning from PCAS. This semester, I’m teaching two brand new courses.

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Students’ Physical and Mental Health Declined During the Pandemic. Could a New Telehealth Initiative Help?

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Faced with these daunting realities, it’s understandable that school and district leaders might put deep investment in students’ physical and mental health on the back burner. Children’s Health Is Crucial to Closing the Achievement Gap Student wellbeing—including physical and mental health—is deeply intertwined with learning outcomes.

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Bringing Better STEM Education to the Rural South

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In response, Schneider and researchers from Michigan State and the University of Helsinki in Finland developed a curriculum called Crafting Engagement for Science Environments and published a related book. Chemistry and physics teachers within these schools will deliver the curriculum. Department of Education and will last five years.

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Physical Bookstores in The Digital Age

Ask a Tech Teacher

That’s why when Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Alex Mitchell, suggested this article– The Future of Physical Bookstores in The Digital Age– I said yes almost before reading it. The company not only sales a ridiculous number of physical books, but they also have opened 18 real-world bookstores across the United States.

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