Assessing Deeper Learning
The profound disruptions to traditional schooling over the past two years leave educators with unique opportunities to redefine school. Though it may be tempting to try to teach
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3 Keys to Improving Assessments
Educators, policymakers, parents, and others interested in improving the way we measure learning in today's schools need to examine three essential questions: 1) What really matters
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How Project-Based Learning Aligns with Effective Teaching Frameworks
Sometimes, when teachers and school leaders hear about project-based learning (PBL), it sounds like a whole new thing. They can’t imagine adding any more to their already-full
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What is "Deeper Learning"?
Okay, so what is deeper learning? And are we not helping our students learn deeply in our schools already? As more and more of my educational conversations involve
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6 Resources that Engage Students in STEM Learning
There are many different ways that all teachers regardless of grade level or content area can bring STEM into the classroom. There are numerous benefits of incorporating STEM
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How PBL Empowers Learners
PBL or project-based learning is happening in K-12 classrooms in ways that incorporate a deep understanding of content while infusing creative and empowering opportunities for students. A third-grade
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PBL Champions Camp: One Tennessee Educator’s Perspective
It is my first full week back to work (with all students and staff masked up) in a new school, working in a new position, and I am
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Helping Students to Build Digital Literacy Skills
We have access to billions of resources in less than a second. With all of this power through technology, as educators, we must be able to sort through
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Developing Social Awareness Through STEM
The social emotional development of our students is more important as ever. We have navigated challenges and adjustments in education and may continue to do so in the
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How STEM Can Support Social Emotional Learning
As an educator and STEM advocate, I have always believed that it is important for young people to develop as thinkers, makers, and problem solvers.Those skills are
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