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Classroom Management, Funding, Professional Development, STEM, Teacher Tips

Oct 10, 2019

15 Educator Grants for Classroom Enrichment, Professional Development, and STEM with Resources to Get You Started

Grants can be publicly or privately funded, and they offer money to be used for usually specific purposes that does NOT need to be repaid. Luckily, there is no shortage of grants available for educators. Here, we’ve compiled a wide-ranging list of some of the best grants out there for educators organized by intended purpose.

Brita Hammer

Oct 07, 2019

Resources to Help Minnesota Educators Plan for the New K-12 Science Standards

Minnesota has demonstrated its commitment to high-quality science education by being a lead state partner (along with 25 other states) for the NGSS. To support Minnesota educators in transition process to the new NGSS-influenced standards, we’ve compiled a helpful list of resources to explore:

Sarah Cornelius

Aug 16, 2019

Meet Middle School Milestones in Science and Social Studies with Study Island

Any teacher who has ever had the privilege of teaching in grades 6-8 knows that middle schoolers present a unique challenge.

McKenna Wierman

Aug 08, 2019

Bringing Experiential Learning to Students Through Augmented Reality

Growing up, most of us saw a picture of the Mona Lisa at least once, probably as a picture in a textbook or a poster in a classroom.

Peter Grimm

Jul 23, 2019

[Feature Focus] Study Island Teacher Toolkit

As a teacher, don’t you love when you have resources at your fingertips to make preparing for class easier? The Study Island Teacher Toolkit gives you just that!

Alexis Brakebill

May 31, 2019

How Are States Performing Under ESSA?

We are now several years into the implementation of ESSA; we have the first full year of school data from the 2017–18 school year; and states are currently in the midst of annual school testing. So, it seems like a good time to step back and take a look at how states are faring under ESSA accountability. To do this, we’ll examine the data and dashboards of a few states selected to show a variety of different approaches to ESSA accountability.

Dave Adams

May 27, 2019

Meet Inspiring Educator Bernell Jones from White Station Middle School in Tennessee

Bernell Jones, who has taught 7th grade math at White Station Middle School in Memphis, Tennessee, for the past 16 years, was recently recognized as one of Edmentum’s 2019 Inspiring Educators. He was distinguished for his outstanding commitment to his students, his creative use of technology in his classroom, and the encouraging and supportive environment he has curated in his classroom with his students. We had the opportunity to chat with Mr. Jones about the ways he uses technology to support his instruction, how he gets his students to love math, and how he uses Study Island to make some noise in class.

McKenna Wierman

Apr 04, 2019

[Weekly EdNews Round Up] The Cult of Homework: A Look at Our Fickle Relationship

America has had a fickle relationship with homework for more than a century. These days, students are reporting spending twice as much time on homework as students did in the 1990s. Experts agree it’s time to revisit our relationship with homework, but why can’t we make up our mind about it once and for all? Read this story and more in this week’s EdNews Round Up!

McKenna Wierman