…from kindergarten through 5th grade have built Lego structures, “marble mazes,” K’nex towers, self-driving cars, and robots. Each day students received a new challenge and raw materials, watched an inspirational…
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Hope or Hype? Exploring Virtual Reality in the Secondary Classroom
VR is a powerful medium that has both applications and constraints that are unlike other forms of EdTech, and some of those disproportionately affect marginalized students. The power of VR…
Erin MacEachen
Erin MacEachen-Travis has been an educator at CES since 1998. She provides individualized, direct, explicit, systematic, sequential, multisensory instruction in phonemic awareness, phonics, syllabication, morphology, and spelling to students with…
Driving Through Mud: How Rural Mass. Schools Are Coping With Rising Transportation Costs
…have been declining in enrollment. Between 2008 and 2017, rural schools in the state lost 14 percent of their students. Fewer students translates to less funding overall from the state….
Mount Tom Academy graduates seven
…program for high school students at risk of dropping out of school. The students come from their district schools and either return to complete their studies or finish their high…
What’s the Real Message? – Making Sense of the Challenging Behaviors We See Every Day
Do you work with students labeled as “difficult”, “challenging”, or “unmotivated”? Whether a result of trauma, depression, anxiety, or other issues, those labeled the most challenging are full of promise,…
With prospect of more charter schools, rural educators see greater risk
…districts can be defined as those with fewer than 1,000 students, or which serve towns with fewer than 10 students per square mile, according to the National Center for Education…
Ed tech must do more to ‘advance equity,’ U.S. Secretary of Education says
…Arne Duncan urged developers to consider the needs of disadvantaged students, so that they are not left behind as more schools adopt new tools that advance teaching and learning. “If…
‘You’re braver than you believe’ Smith Voc sends 122 grads out into world
…campus on Thursday to cheer on Smith Vocational’s class of 2019. The vocational school saw 122 students graduate this year, almost all of whom were present to walk across the…
Leominster schools take initiative on teaching techniques
LEOMINSTER, MA — In an effort to gain a better understanding of how to better prepare its students for success in college and beyond, the city’s public schools are taking…