MIND Education, a leader in neuroscience-driven math education solutions, has released transformative upgrades to the ST Math experience for students and teachers. The flagship curriculum now offers: 

• 34 brand new games; 
• An engaging island-themed student journey; 
• An improved educator dashboard: Enhanced Puzzle Talks to foster mathematical discourse; and
• Comprehensive teacher workshops and professional learning.

Drawing on more than 25 years of neuroscience research, MIND’s approach in ST Math emphasizes learning by doing. These enhancements are designed to deliver learning experiences that are both engaging and effective at impacting positive outcomes.

“ST Math’s new enhancements will accelerate math learning and conceptual understanding in less time,” said Jason Mendenhall, chief product officer at MIND Education. “Students will make remarkable progress with less ‘unproductive struggle,’ resulting in significantly improved math learning outcomes. Games that actively engage students help them avoid the passive learning trap of merely seeking the right answers, instead equipping students with the skills they need to tackle real-world problems.”

New educator professional learning packages seamlessly integrate ST Math into educators’ core instruction. The Curriculum Integration Package features dynamic, collaborative sessions to empower curriculum writers, enabling them to easily embed ST Math into their district’s core curriculum. The Math Discourse with Puzzle Talks package invites educators to participate in a multi-session workshop using a modeling package designed to empower educators in facilitating rich mathematical discourse. 

The newly updated Facilitating Math Discourse with Puzzle Talks Workshop focuses on engaging students in meaningful mathematical discourse and problem-solving using ST Math’s completely redesigned Puzzle Talks. The Curriculum Integration & Targeting Standards Workshop allows educators to explore and experience the flexibility of ST Math within their core math program, while also building a deep understanding of how to target specific standards.

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For decades, a black hole with as much spin or charge as possible, given its mass, was considered mathematically impossible. A new proof reveals otherwise.

The concept of space-time makes Star Trek-style warp drives theoretically possible, and researchers have proposed a way of detecting their use.

A long-awaited study of the cosmic expansion rate suggests that when it comes to the Hubble tension, cosmologists are still missing something.

This award-winning Cool Tool covers Inquiry, Physical Science, Life Science, and Earth and Space Science with lessons specifically designed for early learners. Within the subjects, there are eight units and 28 modules. Each module has eight sessions that teach science using the 5E Model (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate).

Within this digital product, the sessions contain 1000s of online and offline activities that can be completed in as little as 10 minutes and teach students using videos, interaction, poems, songs, and digital notebooks. Students broaden their vocabulary and understanding of scientific terminology while allowing educators to teach literacy and science simultaneously. The exercises incorporate literacy skills, exposing students to science vocabulary, sight words, and more.

Stacy Taylor has more than 18 years of educational experience. Taylor is the Principal of Advance Learning Academy in Maitland, Florida. Advance Learning Academy provides its students with a strong, innovative curriculum that includes 1-to-1 iPad usage. One of the favorite programs is Science4Us. Taylor mainly chose Science4Us because it aligns with her school’s focus of providing a unique and differentiated experience that works with each child.

“There are so many options within the Science4Us program and teachers can pick and choose what works best with their students,” says Taylor. In fact, the students enjoy using it so much that Taylor notes that sometimes the students don’t feel like they are doing schoolwork. “They want to play the games on their iPads and use it during their earned break time!” To her, this dedication speaks volumes.

For these reasons and more, ExploreLearning Science4Us is a Cool Tool Award Winner for “Best STEM Solution” as part of The EdTech Awards 2024 from EdTech Digest. Learn more.

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Discovery Education is setting a trend in K-12 education by making its award-winning learning product (Experience) the home to a host of innovative services that are driving higher academic achievement on a global scale.

Connecting educators to a vast collection of high-quality, standards-aligned content, ready-to-use digital lessons, intuitive quiz and activity creation tools, and professional learning resources, Experience puts learning solutions all in one place. The latest platform enhancements include:

• New resources from our trusted educational partners, spanning grades and subjects, with organizations like Sesame Street, NASA, Verizon, Boeing, Dollar General, and many more.
• New social impact partnerships focusing on some of the most critical issues facing the world today, including the Sustainability Education Coalition.
• A more personal experience, even better, faster search results, and improved administrative and integration functions that make using this service easier than ever.

Discovery Education’s team continues adding, contextualizing, and organizing exciting new content and timely and relevant resources to the platform each month in response to current events and the ever-evolving needs of educators.

Through expanded, lasting partnerships with Microsoft Teams, Google Classroom, Schoology, Canvas, Brightspace, and Clever, Experience easily integrates into a school’s IT infrastructure.

In addition, recent acquisitions that put additional services at educators’ fingertips. Now available through Experience are STEM Connect, and the Math, Science, and Social Studies Techbooks, Mystery Science, DoodleLearning, and Pivot Interactives. Experience will soon include DreamBox.

For these reasons and more, Discovery Education Experience is a Cool Tool Awards Winner for “Best Product or Service” as part of The EdTech Awards 2024 from EdTech Digest. Learn more. 

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RethinkEd’s Vizzle solution is a comprehensive K-12 academic intervention curriculum that supports all learners. Vizzle offers engaging and challenging educational resources that teachers can easily customize to provide students with an individualized learning experience. The robust data collection tools help teachers and administrators automatically track student progress and adapt curriculum as needed.

The new Vizzle includes updated features such as:

• Standards Aligned Library: A searchable collection with over 40,000 K-12 interactive, differentiated, lessons for Math, ELA, Science, and Social Studies.

• Special Education Suite: Their newest feature provides thousands of lessons on Life Skills, Social Skills, and Transition/Vocational Skills that prepare students for the real world by helping them strengthen social relationships, prepare for job interviews and employment, and practice other skills needed for ongoing success after graduation.
• Structured Planning Resources: 36-week unit guides, lesson plans, and leveled activities that adapt to each district’s scope and sequence, simplifying planning and implementation.
• Personalized Learning: Authoring tools to quickly create and/or edit lessons and adjust settings to meet the individualized learning needs of students at Tiers 1, 2 and 3. Built in optional accessibility features include text-to-speech, prompting, reinforcement, highlighting, number of choices, and switch-access.
• Automatic Data Collection: Collect data instantly as students work through teacher assigned lessons with progress monitoring tools that ensure compliance with IEP goals and state learning standards.

 

Vizzle has also updated and expanded their standards-aligned curriculum at all levels, providing schools with a comprehensive multi-tier academic curriculum that engages and challenges all students.

For these reasons and more, RethinkEd Vizzle Academic Curriculum and Skills Suite is a Cool Tool Award Winner for “Best New Product or Service” as part of The EdTech Awards 2024 from EdTech Digest. Learn more. 

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