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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
STEM Programs to Develop the Next Generation of Innovative Thinkers
The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) reaches far beyond its museum in promoting creativity and advancing the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship in the next generation of inventors. The museum connects inventors who have built the world around us with the innovators of tomorrow.
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Funding & Recognition
Competition to Invigorate Arts Education Budgets
Vans High School Custom Culture was created to inspire and empower high school students to embrace their creativity through art and design and bring attention to diminishing arts education budgets. Vans High School Custom Culture contest for 2022 is now open, and students have the opportunity to win $50,000 for their high school’s art program!
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Calculate the Value of Software and Inform Licensing Using Data
Aggregated data, while certainly valuable and informative, is just one key component of the data analytics equation. In this brief study case from CatchOn, learn how Virginia’s Chesapeake City Public Schools (CPS) is using analytics to gather longitudinal data.
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Professional Growth
Institute Offering Authentic STEAM Experiences
Middle school teachers are invited to spend two weeks this summer learning about authentic STEAM engagement at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. The Teacher Innovator Institute will resume in person in July 2022 and will welcome teachers from across the country for a professional development intensive experience.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Stories and Lessons Taught Through Space Exploration
Making STEM subjects engaging and relevant just got easier for educators thanks to new virtual resources available through the efforts of one of the nation’s top science education centers and space museums: Cosmosphere International SciEd Center and Space Museum.
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Funding & Recognition
What Makes a Successful Grant Application?
Start uncovering funds now at GetEdFunding.com to keep updated on fast-approaching deadlines, new opportunities, and tips on creating outstanding grant proposals.
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Funding & Recognition
Grants to Provide Reading Materials to Disadvantaged Children
School libraries serving disadvantaged children in prekindergarten through grade 12 are eligible for grants from the Snapdragon Book Foundation. The grants typically range from $2,500 to $10,000.
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Mobile Learning
Tool Identifying DEI-Related Language Patterns in Communications
The dei.ai language tool empowers users to learn real principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion through everyday communication. The tool identifies patterns in language to help users better understand how they communicate—and miscommunicate.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
US Poet Laureate’s Project Celebrating the Voices of Native Poets
Living Nations, Living Words is the signature project of US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, the first Native person to serve in this position. With an emphasis on poetry, and on sharing and elevating the voices of living Native poets, the project consists of a story map and a poetry collection.
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Image by 3D Animation Production Company from Pixabay
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Funding & Recognition
“Awesome” Grants to Fund “Awesome” Projects
The Awesome Foundation is an ever-growing worldwide community devoted to forwarding the interest of awesome in the universe. Each fully autonomous chapter supports awesome projects through microgrants of $1,000 (or the local equivalent), which are usually given out monthly.
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Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
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Professional Growth
Guides for Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Computational Thinking
Featuring in-depth interviews with practitioners, guidelines for classroom teachers, and a webinar about the importance of artificial intelligence (AI) in education, the Hands-On AI Projects for the Classroom guides from ISTE and General Motors provide K–12 educators with practical tools for integrating AI and computational thinking across various grade levels and subject areas.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Interdisciplinary Investigations into Early American Art and Culture
“Becoming America: Thinking through Identity, Culture, and Traditions in Early America” is a series of interdisciplinary, object-based investigations into different themes in early American art, culture, and the humanities. The resource emphasizes the value that objects provide as primary sources for inquiry.
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Mobile Learning
Game-based App for Learning to Code in a Variety of Ways
Sololearn offers more than 25 free coding language courses that will suit most coding needs. It is a valuable tool for beginners and intermediate learners in particular.
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Image by S. Hermann & F. Richter from Pixabay
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Program That “Fuels” the Mind, the Body, and the Planet
Co-launched by the National Dairy Council and National Football League, Fuel Up to Play 60 brings together students, educators, NFL players, farmers, and influencers, all working to build stronger and healthier communities.
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Image by Chhumvichhouk Rounh from Pixabay
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Analyses of Diversity in Children’s Picture Books
Recognized as a 2021 Best Digital Tool by the American Association of School Librarians, Diverse BookFinder is a comprehensive collection of children’s picture books featuring Black and Indigenous people and People of Color (BIPOC).
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Professional Growth
Resources for Raising Thoughtful and Informed Children
EmbraceRace was founded in early 2016 by two parents—one a first-generation, multiracial daughter of a mother from Quebec and a father from Dominca, who brings a racial equity lens to her work as a storyteller, K–12 educator, and edtech strategist; and the other a Black man of Jamaican origins, born on the 4th of July.
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