Va. school designs student-centered library  | | (svedoliver/NewsCred) | A Virginia high school revamped its library to become a center for student and teacher collaboration. Changes include suspending rules on "being quiet," opening the library during lunch and other non-class times, adding computers with music-making and gaming software, and the creation of a "maker" space with a 3D printer. KQED.org/Mind/Shift blog (6/18)
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 | N.J. district adds coaches, sets aside time for collaborative planning The four elementary schools in a New Jersey district are restructuring their schedules to give teachers time each day for collaborative planning and professional development as part of an instructional improvement plan. Each school also will receive an instructional coach to work with teachers across grade levels during common planning times and technology teachers to help integrate laptops into some classrooms. The Record (Hackensack, N.J.) (6/22) Other News | Applying common core to project-based learning When designing project-based lessons, educators should focus first on what excites them -- the content -- and then seek ways to apply the Common Core State Standards, writes middle-grades educator Heather Wolpert-Gawron. In this blog post, she describes her planning process for a project based on superheroes. Her first draft naturally addressed many standards and she later added components to teach others. Edutopia.org/Heather Wolpert-Gawron's blog (6/19) | Google extends reach to girls with $50M campaign Google has announced a $50 million initiative to teach girls to code and help close the gender gap in engineering and computer science. The announcement follows recent reports that only 17% of Google's technology employees are women. The Made With Code campaign will include partnerships with various organizations and companies to help link families with programs and mentors. Time.com (6/19) Other News | Why federal investment in technology is needed now The U.S. Department of Education's budget should include "targeted federal investments in technology," Keith Krueger, CEO of the Consortium for School Networking, and Kristen Amundson, executive director of the National Association of State Boards of Education, write in this commentary. They call for a major contribution from the federal government in order for the U.S. to invest in students and the future. The Hill/Congress Blog (6/19) |  | To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible." -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer | | | | Math Education SmartBrief is an aggregation of published news and editorial content from diverse sources. The content of Math Education SmartBrief does not necessarily reflect the position or editorial viewpoint of any particular organization. | Please contact one of our specialists for advertising opportunities, editorial inquiries, job placements, or any other questions.
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