Free Webinar to Make the Most of Edtech
You may have the tech but don’t always know how or where it makes sense to use it in the classroom. Join Edina Public Schools and Logitech as they discuss simple, school-tested ways to use technology to creatively enhance learning. You’ll come away with creative ways to personalize learning and specific school-tested strategies that you can use immediately. Register today to attend live on May 18, 2022, at 1 p.m. (PT)/4 p.m. (ET), or get access to the recording.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Real Science, Real Stories, Real Data to Engage Students
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s BioInteractive initiative brings the power of real science stories into high school life science classrooms. The stories anchor a variety of classroom resources based on peer-reviewed science.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Toolkit for Designing Games That Lead to Change
Games are microcosms of the real world, making play and design a springboard for possibility. The Game Design Studio Toolkit supports teens in using game design to lead systems of change, engaging teens in individual and collective reflection and action as they create their own games.
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Funding & Recognition
Grant-Finding Portal Created for Educators by Educators
GetEdFunding is a curated collection of thousands of grants and awards that grows by the day, all selected through the prism of relevance to today’s educational institutions.
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Professional Growth
Training on the Power of Sports to Promote Respect and Nonviolence
Coaching Boys Into Men (CBIM) is an evidence-based prevention program that trains and motivates high school coaches to teach their young male athletes healthy relationship skills and promote respect, nonviolence, and integrity so their athletes come to understand that violence never equals strength.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Virtual Camp for Youth Who Aspire to Be Scientists and Leaders
BYJU’S Summer Camp 2022 is the largest virtual summer camp for youth aged 6–18. Students will have the opportunity to participate in 10 classes from world-renowned experts, including scientists, mathematicians, and even a cool robot.
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Professional Growth
Edtech Activities That Encourage Creative Learning Experiences
Don’t miss Logitech’s free resource with teacher-tested edtech activities that empower student expression, engagement, and connection to suit any classroom style. Download the guide and explore new ways to encourage creative learning experiences.
Plus: Join Edina Public Schools and Logitech as they discuss simple, school-tested ways to use technology to creatively enhance learning. You’ll come away with creative ways to personalize learning and specific school-tested strategies that you can use immediately. Register today to attend live on May 18, 2022, at 1 p.m. (PT)/4 p.m. (ET), or get access to the recording.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Ideas for Teaching About the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis
The nonprofit Facing History and Ourselves has released resources to help students make sense of what is happening in Ukraine and the ongoing refugee crisis. The curriculum for teachers of middle school and high school students includes reflective questions designed to get students talking and come to an in-depth understanding of the war.
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Funding & Recognition
Contest Using the Power of Story to Build Empathy
University of Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education are sponsors of the Stronger Than Hate Challenge, a contest for middle school and high school students across the nation to find inspiration in the stories of survivors of genocide.
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Professional Growth
Asking the Right Questions to Support Student Learning
Accelerating learning for students whose literacy growth has been interrupted remains a top priority of Lexia Learning. In the webinar “Less Guessing: Start Addressing,” literacy learning experts Dr. Suzanne Carreker and Julie Bertram review how students learn to read and how to clearly identify where support needs to be targeted. Watch now to see how starting with the right questions can help teachers provide solutions that inspire growth.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Powerful Tools for Dyslexic and Struggling Readers
Noah Text is specialized scaffolded text that allows readers to see sound parts within words, providing a way for struggling readers to decode and enunciate words that are difficult to access. The text highlights syllables and long-vowel words while keeping words intact.
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Funding & Recognition
Competition Encouraging Students to Share Their Knowledge
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) invites students to create an activity to share their passion for a favorite topic and have a chance to win a telescope, microscope, or coding robot. Their favorite topic may be related to history, science, art, sports, or anything else.
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Professional Growth
Stories of Diverse Women with Innovative Mindsets
Have you leveraged an entrepreneurial mindset to advance in your career? Do you want to align your purpose with your traits and skills to “do well” and “do good” in your profession? InnovateHERs: Why Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurial Women Rise to the Top will guide you in becoming an InnovateHER too.
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Professional Growth
Strategy for Building Safe, Positive, Caring Classrooms
For students, a positive connection to at least one school adult—whether a teacher, counselor, sports coach, or other school staff member—can have tremendous benefits. Educators can use the Relationship Mapping Strategy from Harvard University’s Making Caring Common project to ensure that every learner feels known and supported.
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Funding & Recognition
Award for Extending George Washington’s Legacy of Service
The George Washington Mount Vernon Prize for Excellence in Civics and History is awarded to two student projects each year. Teachers and organization leaders can nominate eligible middle school and high school students who have applied their understanding of George Washington’s life to extend his legacy of public service within classrooms, schools, or community projects.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Framework for Invention Learning in the Real World
Through its ConnectUp initiative, Raytheon Technologies is helping shape the future of aerospace and defense by nurturing diverse talent. Raytheon Technologies’ Invention Connection is a global K–12 invention education program that teaches student problem identification, problem-solving, entrepreneurship, and creativity skills, and builds confidence in invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship for life.
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Mobile Learning
Reading, Literacy, and Assistive Software for Personalized Support
Texthelp’s Read&Write keyboard replacement boosts confidence and attainment for struggling readers and everyone who is improving their English, including students with learning difficulties or dyslexia, as well as English learners.
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Funding & Recognition
Grant to Enhance the Teaching of Chemistry
Since 2008 more than 700 high school chemistry teachers have received the American Chemical Society’s ACS-Hach High School Chemistry Classroom Grant to support ideas that enhance classroom learning, foster student development, and reveal the wonders of chemistry.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Activities for Celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
The Smithsonian Pacific American Center’s Learning Together webpage serves as an online venue for educational content featuring interviews with Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community members, links to community-created educational resources, book recommendations, discussion ideas, and more.
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