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Student-designed 7th grade climate curriculum aims to bring joy, rigor

The developers of a new climate-centered, open source curriculum focused on land subsidence in California’s Central Valley promise the lessons for 7th graders will be joyful, engaging and rigorous. That’s because the developers, ages 12-23, are students themselves and have keen insight into what middle schoolers want to learn and how they connect with information.

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The Teen Brain – 10 minute short film

Articles, News, Resources, Resources for Parents / Micro Schools Network

Teens say, ”Understand us!” The Teen Brain is a new 10-minute short film that explores what’s happening in the teenage brain, illuminating that teenagers are emotionally brilliant super-learners with brains that are undergoing rapid and significant remodeling and development. It is based on the latest research on adolescence, and showcasing both teens and doctors and

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AI tutors are quietly changing how kids in the US study, and the leading apps are from China

Articles, News / Rita Liao

The two most popular AI helpers in the U.S., as of May, are both Chinese-owned. One-year-old Question AI is the brainchild of the founders of Zuoyebang, a popular Chinese homework app that has raised around $3 billion in equity over the past decade. Gauth, on the other hand, was launched by TikTok parent ByteDance in 2019. Since its inception,

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A Roadmap for Parents Rethinking School

Articles, News, Resources for Parents / Micro Schools Network

If What You’re Doing Isn’t Working, It’s Time to Switch Schools What Kids Need to Succeed at School What Should the Learning Experience Look Like? Alternative School Options Focus on Your Concerns to Decide What’s Right for You Navigate the Switch with Clear Next Steps Cut the Cord from Public School Without Breaking the Bank

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Five Reasons to Bring Our National Parks into the Classroom

Articles, News, Resources for Parents / Seth Kannarr

When we consider taking a vacation, we often make plans to visit our national parks. Whether it is the nostalgia from family road trips growing up, or just a desire to escape our daily routine and reconnect with the outdoors, over 300 million Americans travel to the 429 units managed by the National Park Service across the United States

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The US is experiencing a boom in microschools.

Articles, News / Micro Schools Network

The US is experiencing a boom in microschools. What are they?

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Should entrepreneurship skills be a curriculum requirement?

Articles, News / Anna Merod

Entrepreneurship education programs help students develop a mindset or collection of skills that help them take risks, recognize opportunities, learn from mistakes, and better communicate. The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship says entrepreneur education should be viewed as a key part of developing students’ career-readiness.

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When Science Class Is in a Former Macy’s

Articles, News / Paul Sullivan

Charter schools are popping up in struggling malls as landlords look for alternative tenants and communities seek to increase educational opportunities.

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Unfulfilled Promise The Forty-Year Shift from Print to Digital and Why It Failed to Transform Learning

Articles, News / Getting Smart

The shift from print to digital is the most significant change in how human beings learn since the printing press. It marked a shift from information scarcity to abundance, a shift from searching to sorting. It changed what, how, and where people learn, and not always for the better. Social media feeds displaced newspapers, YouTube

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Why Doesn’t Every Office Building Have A Microschool?

Articles, News / Kerry McDonald

More businesspeople… as well as employers, are recognizing the value of small, personalized schools and similar learning spaces and are exploring ways to bring microschools into their office buildings.

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Next Wave of Microschool Founders are More Diverse, Less Likely to be Educators

Articles, News / Lauren Wagner

The face of microschooling is changing — from the racial diversity and professional background of its founders to how these small, nontraditional learning centers finance their operations. An analysis of the burgeoning sector shows greater numbers of Black and Hispanic founders, fewer teachers at the helm and less reliance on tuition.

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School Fit Sycamore School Arlington Virginia

School Fit: A Teacher’s Reflection

Articles, News / Micro Schools Network

Can a school really make a dramatic difference to a student? This teacher from The Sycamore School certainly feels that it does in experience and reflections on school fit.

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