The Future of Future-Ready: How the Pandemic Changed Education
"So, just now that we've reopened our buildings, I'm able to sleep at night." Dr. Michele Eller is the assistant superintendent at
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Promoting Student Choice in Assessments
Now that the school year has started and hopefully we are making the transition into hybrid, distance or in-person learning, it is a good opportunity to think about
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STEM is Elementary
Kids spring into the world STEM-ready. From birth, they are problem-solvers trying to make sense of the world around them. They’re fascinated with building things—and with
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4 Factors for Determining How to Best Group Students in PBL
When teachers are first learning how to engage students in project-based learning (PBL), one question comes up most often: how should students be grouped? It’s a challenging
Read moreTop 5 STEM Education Articles of April
By Maggie O'Brien Each month, we list articles on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education and project-based learning (PBL) that we find exceptionally inspiring and
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How to Develop Future-Ready Students
We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist … using technologies that haven’t been invented … in order to solve problems we don’t even
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Combining Inquiry and PBL: 3 Guidelines for Success
High-Quality Project-Based Learning (PBL) provides opportunities for sustained inquiry over multiple working sessions. Transitioning to PBL involves shifts in planning, instruction, classroom management and teacher-student interaction. In my
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Formative Assessment in PBL
The school year will soon be underway, and you’re probably already planning for your next round of PBL projects. One of the main questions you will need
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PBL: A Team Effort
An instructional coach and media coordinator share how they collaborated to create an innovative and engaging PBL curriculum By Dr. Angela Mullennix During the most recent school year,
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To Connect Classes to Careers, Consider Erasing Grade Levels
Back in the early 1900s, John Dewey promoted the “learning by doing”approach to education, which would later become the foundation of project-based learning (PBL). This framework allows
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