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Space exploration platform engaging students in hands-on, phenomena-based, STEAM-focused learning

The Slooh platform provides students in schools nationwide with the ability to explore the universe and its stars, planets, moons, nebulae, and celestial events through the company’s multiple...

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Transform Learners to Innovators: Help Them Envision Themselves as Future STEAM Leaders

TinkRworks for grades K-8 is a critical piece of STEAM Project-based Learning initiatives for school systems nationwide. It provides all of the essential ingredients to ensure successful STEAM im...

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Engaging, standards-based gaming STEM curriculum with a focus on preventative mental health.

Gaming Concepts curriculum with Mental Health Moments is a course series intentionally designed with Universal Design principles in mind. It ensures adaptability and the utilization of variou...

Industry News

Calling All STEM Teachers: Now Accepting Applications for the 2018 Vernier Engineering Contest

Vernier to recognize two teachers with $5,500 in prizes each for their creative use of Vernier sensors to introduce engineering concepts

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Ocean Breeze Elementary Hosts “Classroom of the Future” Event with Connection and The Douglas Stewart Company

Elementary and middle school teachers learn about latest trends in classroom tech during hands-on gathering

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5 Ways to Celebrate National STEM/STEAM Day

  November 8 is National STEM/STEAM Day, and we’re excited to celebrate! The day is an opportunity to focus on helping kids advance in the fields of science, technology, engineering, art, and ...

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Florida’s Santa Rosa County District Schools to Continue Expanding STEAM Initiative

Award-Winning Digital Techbooks and Sustained Professional Development to Help Continue Driving District’s STEAM Innovate! Initiative

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TinkRworks Introduces Two New Projects That Inspire STEAM Learning Through Drawing and Music

Tech-A-Sketch for grades 3-5 and TinkRsynth for grades 6-8 enable students to explore their creativity and real-world STEAM applications

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CoderZ Named a 2024 Educators Pick Best of STEM Award Winner

Thousands of STEM educators chose the gamified coding platform as a top STEM education solution

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TinkRWorks Media Alert STEAM Webinar: Designing an Impactful STEAM Program for Grades K–8

A no-cost 30-minute webinar for K-8 teachers, librarians, and education technology leaders interested in STEAM instruction

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TinkRworks and 1st Maker Space Partner to Help Schools Bring STEAM to Life with Project-based Learning in Makerspaces

Two STEAM education innovators join forces to provide educators with the spaces and resources to foster hands-on learning in STEAM classrooms and labs

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Fostering Connectedness and Promoting SEL

What are the programs you can use in your classrooms that will help get and keep your students connected? And how do these programs aid in the social emotional learning of your students? In this...

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An Interview with Claire Williams McGee, District Lead STEAM Coach, Metro Nashville Public Schools

Tune in to this talk where LeiLani interviews Claire Williams McGee, District Lead STEAM Coach, Metro Nashville Public Schools. Claire talks about STEAM and the approach Metro Nashville takes to...

Tactics

How to implement STEAM curriculum that makes an impact

More than 75 percent of all jobs will require some expertise in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering Arts Math) within the next decade. But there’s a problem. Only 10 percent of US teacher...

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EdTech Implementation, Texas Style

Community Engagement Helps Garland ISD Make the Digital Shift

Innovation

Bringing Robots to the Center of Learning

How Coding, Programming and Robotics Prepare Students for World Readiness

Thoughts

A Sea-Change in Education—Views from the Mid-Pacific

Engaging community to transform your district as you go digital

People

Scannable and Wearable Technology Day at A. Harry Moore School of New Jersey

Providing A Unique 21st Century Learning Experience for Students with Special Needs

Perspective

STEM Is Just the Beginning

Specific subject knowledge is useless without the literacy, communication, and collaboration skills that students need to thrive in today’s workplace

Featured Papers

The Learning Counsel presents journals, papers and briefs on critical topics in Digital Education.

Most will require registration in order to access them, but they are all free.

Three Near-Term Innovation Areas for K12
K12 human resources are crucial to utilizing the cloud successfully. Roles and responsibilities have all changed dramatically since the start of the pandemic, and a new trend to move to core co...
An Essential Audio Ingredient in Today’s Accessible Learning Environments
Today’s learning environments have changed markedly from just a couple years ago, prior to the pandemic. Tech devices are comprehensively in both the student and teacher hands, but are they missin...
The Gaps Remaining for District Digital Transition
Most administrators know there are still gaps remaining in their school or district’s digital transition. Recent studies including the 2021 Digital Transition Surveys for Administrators and Teache...
5 Steps to Fixing the Hidden Traffic of Records Management Overwhelming Schools
How come digital processes seem easier but are often harder to manage? A major shift to digital teaching and learning in schools has developed an additional digital traffic load for teachers and f...
From Chaos to Learning Recovery: Going from Manual-Digital All the Way to Efficiency
Seeing the Levels of Chaos Helps Anchor Bringing Order Schools and districts that recently lost 4 percent of students to alternatives continued to lose students in 2021 at an accelerated pace (no...
Hybrid Logistics Security
Your district is a brand, and your network security helps power its reputation. With the accelerated move to hybrid learning environments over the past year, school districts across the nation are...