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7 Habits of Highly Effective STEM Teachers
There are only so many hours in a school day. Here are seven habits that you can easily incorporate into your teaching approach that will help you maximize your effectiveness as a STEM teacher.Check...
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Where can philanthropy make a difference in STEM education?
It's probably not news to you that private foundations, corporations, and individual trusts are excited to give to K-12 STEM education, a sector that consumes over $16 billion dollars per year before...
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Help Wanted: How to Onboard Parents Early with STEM
When you hear about STEM education, the conversation often revolves around teachers and students. What’s often overlooked is the role parents can play both in supporting student learning at home and in...
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Why is alignment more difficult with the Next Generation Science Standards?
With the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) at or near the classroom implementation stage in most states, principals and teachers have come together to discuss their interpretations, and all are...
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Cultivating a STEM Learning Ecosystem
Where does STEM Start?A STEM learning ecosystem helps educators, parents and other community players connect the dots between STEM learning that’s formal (standards-based, in the classroom), with...
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Girls & Women in STEM: Enhancing Equality and Opportunity
Early Investment, Big ReturnsThe conversation about women in STEM is everywhere and growing exponentially in popularity, something seen in the sheer number of headlines written in the past few years....
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Using STEM to Unlock the Potential of Rural Classrooms
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get GoingIt’s an old adage, but one that holds a lot of truth, at least when it comes to the youth in rural and tribal communities hardest hit in our most recent...
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Expanding community schools through STEM
Imagine a school with a hyper-local perspective and a deep-seeded connection with the community that supports and surrounds it. A place where you’ll find typical K-12 classrooms, but also a health...
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Comeback Cities: How STEM can boost the economic recovery
The economic recovery may be well underway, but for many American families—and many urban centers in our nation—the turnaround has been slow in coming, with a return to real prosperity not yet on the...
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STEM that Competes with the Street
It’s been 52 years since Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech, and 50 long years since the march on Selma. But today, a half-century later, a quarter of African American and Latino...
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Are You Modeling a STEM Mindset?
After years of research, Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck seems to have found a way you can develop grit and perseverance in your students: instill in them a "growth" mindset where they...
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Student's Perspective: What's Missing in the K-12 STEM Classroom?
Carl is a high school graduate whose hard work and creativity allowed him to grade skip and graduate early. In this guest blog post, Carl shares his perspective on what it was like to be a student in...
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One Child Shares His Passion for STEM and Life
Yassine is a KnowAtom student recently promoted to 6th grade in the urban schools of Lynn, Massachusetts. As winner of the Dr. George Laubner Award, he recently shared an essay about his life and STEM...
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Questioning the Need for Next Generation Science Standards
When it comes to the Next Generation Science Standards, educators sometimes have more questions than answers. What are the NGSS all about? Why do they exist? Why is the approach to science and inquiry...
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Where do NGSS and ELA Standards Intersect?
The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects are the next generation of K–12 literacy standards.Common Core State...
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New Approaches in STEM Instruction Change What Students Learn
Understanding the Next Generation Science Standards means realizing that the NGSS is not just about changing how we teach. In fact, the primary goal is to change teaching, altering practices and...
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Expanding the Maker Movement with STEM
When Paul McCarthy’s son was born without fingers two years ago, McCarthy decided to find a solution on his own. He began to search for an inexpensive, functional prosthetic hand online and came across...
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Young Americans in STEM: From Recession to Optimism
The Great Recession was tough on everyone, especially Generation Z now entering today's workforce.So why should the next generation have reason to be optimistic about their futures? The answer, for...
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Making Sense of the 3 Dimensions of NGSS
The STEM cycle of innovation is about relationships between the core STEM components – science, technology, engineering and math.
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Was STEAM Involved in Picasso's Guernica?
Did you know that the Next Generation Science Standards have applications in art as well? While including the arts with science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEAM) may seem...
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