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EdTech 10: Tough, Not Impossible

This week we celebrated National Teacher Appreciation Week and National Teacher Day with educators across the country. It’s the time of year when we pause to reflect on importance of great teaching and acknowledge that teachers today are rising up to meet enormous challenges.

13 days ago by Carri Schneider

Leadership

Teacher Appreciation Week: Getting Smart Team Favorites

We couldn’t think of a better way to wrap Teacher Appreciation Week then highlighting the teachers that have impacted the lives of our team. Share your favorite teacher stories in the comments below!

13 days ago by Getting Smart Staff

Learning

POTUS Visits Texas STEM School

Following is a note from John Fitzpatrick, Executive Director of Educate Texas, about the president's visit to a STEM school near Austin, Texas. The school was formed as part of the New Tech Network and T-STEM, a project of the Texas High School Project (now Educate Texas).

13 days ago by Getting Smart Staff

Blended Learning That Is Truly Blended

Even though blended learning is erroneously becoming synonymous with online, digital learning, it is arguably the most intriguing and perhaps the least mastered of all current buzz words.

14 days ago by John Hardison

Learning

Do My Students Still Need Me?

I'm a teacher and whereas I used to think my students couldn't learn without me, I'm no longer so sure. Recently I found myself asking the question, "do my students still need me?"

14 days ago by Toni Shellady

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K12 Inc.

K12 Inc. is leading the transformation to individualized learning as the nation's foremost provider of technology-powered online solutions for students in pre-kindergarten through high school.

Learning

The Art of Teaching Science

If only teaching K-12 science was itself a science – assess student knowledge deficits and remedy them. So here’s a new tool for any teacher who’s spent evenings and weekends trying to find a lesson that’s the perfect fit for their class: it’s called MOSART...

14 days ago by Winifred Kehl

EdTech

Study Confirms Gains From Game-Based ST Math

A WestEd study released this week confirmed gains tracked by schools using the innovative ST Math program from MIND Research Institute. More than 1,700 schools use the supplemental math games.

15 days ago by Tom Vander Ark