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Desmet, Ophélie Allyssa; Roberts, Anne Marie – Education Sciences, 2022
Positive creativity involves creative ideas and products that are beneficial to humanity. This paper discusses the importance of fostering positive and transformational creativity in PK-12 and college settings, and concrete classroom strategies for nurturing positive creativity through a service learning pedagogy. A brief history of service…
Descriptors: Creativity, Service Learning, Creative Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education
Kettler, Todd; Taliaferro, Cheryl – Prufrock Press, 2022
Gifted students can exhibit extreme variance in both their abilities and their interests, yet they are often treated within schools as one homogeneous, specialized population. "Personalized Learning in Gifted Education" helps educators strengthen their differentiation of both instruction and services for advanced students. This book: (1)…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Gifted Education, Academically Gifted, Data Use
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Anna Maier – Learning Policy Institute, 2024
Peñasco Independent School District is a rural community school district serving approximately 280 students. Peñasco's approach to community schooling focuses on culturally relevant, community-connected learning (including project-based learning and career and technical education), family and community engagement, and support for students' health…
Descriptors: School Districts, Rural Areas, Community Education, Community Involvement
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Nicholas, Celeste; Scribner, J. Adam – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2021
The article profiles a project addressing a central issue in reform-driven STEM education--the need to align educational experiences with real-world STEM. The interdisciplinary program aimed for authenticity by purposefully designing an authentic PBL project and incorporating STEM professionals as volunteer facilitators. These volunteers enhanced…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Problem Based Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach, Student Projects
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Özdemir, Selçuk – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2019
The history of innovation is constructed by solo thinkers and collaborative makers. The word innovation here comprises changes on technology, art and science. This article aims to reflect the way successful inventors, artists and scientists followed to do whatever they succeeded so that the coming generations can learn from predecessors' positive…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Cooperation, Innovation, Thinking Skills
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Harvie, Julie – Scottish Educational Review, 2020
Interdisciplinary learning (IDL) features heavily within Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence and is promoted as a way to develop skills building and conceptual creativity in students, factors which are now seen as crucial for the twenty-first century education system (Khadri, 2014; Kolmos, 2016). Recent studies suggest, however, that although…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Policy, Barriers
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Bartholomew, Scott R. – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2017
Interest in Technology and Engineering Education (TEE) has recently revolved around working to define/redefine who we are, and who we are not; while others in TEE are not interested in a change of identity. An emphasis on design, design education, and design assessment may help clarify the discussion surrounding the future direction of TEE.…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Engineering Education, Design, Elementary Secondary Education
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Brown, Julie – School Science Review, 2019
If you have not yet come across Practical Action's teaching resources, this article will open your eyes to a wealth of free high-quality materials that will support your teaching of science within a real-life global context. The potential benefits and importance of this approach, both for increasing student engagement in science and for the future…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Science Instruction, Global Approach, Problem Based Learning
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Cian, Heidi; Marshall, Jeff; Cook, Michelle – Science Teacher, 2019
The "Framework" (NRC 2012) and "Next Generation Science Standards" (NGSS Lead States 2013) require science teachers to think differently. Specifically, NGSS's performance expectations now require that three domains (disciplinary core ideas (DCI), crosscutting concepts (CCC), and scientific and engineering practices (SEP)) be…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Standards, Science Teachers
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Díaz Pérez, Wendy; Fields, Donna Lee; Marsh, David – Theory Into Practice, 2018
The continued emergence of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) is linked to how it creates, adopts, and leads to the design of innovative didactic processes. In systems, theory emergence occurs when features of smaller entities are brought together through interaction to form a larger ecosystem, one that acquires qualities not readily…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Innovation, Barriers
Indiana Department of Education, 2018
As one of the national leaders in innovative public education strategies focused on future talent development, Indiana is positioned to create a sustainable, collaborative strategy for K-12 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) instruction, curriculum, and career exploration and exposure. To provide a comprehensive, coordinated,…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Educational Planning, STEM Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Volante, Paulo; Jeldres, Rolando; Spero, Ken; Llorente, Claudia; Johanek, Michael – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2020
This article describes the process of designing and creating six computer-based simulations for school leadership training programmes, in the context of the Chilean school system. For the design and construction of the simulations, six scenarios were selected from case analysis of principals with formal training and experience in different…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Instructional Leadership, Foreign Countries, Principals
Ark, Thomas J. Vander; Liebtag, Emily; McClennen, Nate – ASCD, 2020
"Place: it's where we're from; it's where we're going. . . . It asks for our attention and care. If we pay attention, place has much to teach us." With this belief as a foundation, "The Power of Place" offers a comprehensive and compelling case for making communities the locus of learning for students of all ages and…
Descriptors: Authentic Learning, Place Based Education, Learner Engagement, Educational Principles
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Sahm, Charles – Education Next, 2015
Last year, 29 percent of New York City children were considered proficient in English and 35 percent in math on the state's challenging Common Core-aligned exams. For Success Academy students, the proficiency rates were 64 percent in English and an astonishing 94 percent in math. Success students in the city's poorest communities outperformed kids…
Descriptors: Success, Charter Schools, Curriculum Development, Problem Based Learning
Anderson, Lorin W.; Pešikan, Ana – UNESCO International Bureau of Education, 2016
Students of all ages spend a good amount of their time in classrooms engaged in some type of academic work (e.g. worksheets, workbooks, scientific projects, essays, research papers). On average, students from elementary through high school spend approximately one-half of their classroom time working by themselves ("seatwork") or in…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Low Income Students, Economically Disadvantaged, Learning Activities
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