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South Carolina STEAM Implementation Continuum

The purpose of the South Carolina STEAM Implementation Continuum is to provide statewide guidance and consistency with regard to STEAM implementation. To accomplish that purpose, the document sets forth a common language for STEAM implementation and establishes indicators in a continuum format that describe early or “Emerging” to model or “Practicing” STEAM schools or programs. […]

Science Technology Engineering Arts Math

The San Diego County Office of Education (SDCOE) is dedicated to increasing youth’s experience with Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM). SDCOE created a STEAM directory that is intended to enable the public, educators, and STEAM partners to identify valuable STEAM resources. Their goal is to link preK-16 schools, educators, after-school programs, community-based organizations, […]

Hoax or No Hoax? Strategies for Online Comprehension and Evaluation

“Hoax or No Hoax? Strategies for Online Comprehension and Evaluation” is a lesson available on the ReadWriteThink website. Over a series of four 60-minute sessions, the lesson presents an instructional plan for teaching strategies in a cycle of planning, predicting, monitoring, and evaluating online reading. Students learn the online reading comprehension strategies and have opportunities to practice using them […]

The New Literacies

“The New Literacies” is an article on the Reading Rockets website. The article describes the need to teach students specific strategies and skills for reading on the Internet, describes instructional models being studied by the New Literacies Research Lab at the University of Connecticut, and highlights initiatives to support Internet and online learning in schools in Finland, Ireland, and […]

Teaching Information Literacy Skills

“Teaching Information Literacy Skills” is an article on the Reading Rockets website. The article provides a definition of information literacy, and offers suggestions for teaching aspects of information literacy.

PEAR’s STEM Work

The PEAR Institute (Program in Education, Afterschool and Resiliency) has created a comprehensive suite of tools that provides information on the quality of students’ science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) learning experiences and provides a common language around STEM outcomes so students can learn in school and after school settings. The two tools in this […]