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SmartLab Wins 2022 STEM/STEAM Instructional Solution of the Year

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Last week, SmartLab was awarded STEM/STEAM Instructional Solution of the Year by the Institute for Education Innovation.

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Grants & Funding

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Watch the Webinar: Utilizing ESSER Funding to Implement PBL + STEM Initiatives (November 15, 2022)

Watch the ESSER Funding Webinar Today! What are the most effective and impactful ways to spend ESSER Funding? What decision-making…

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Press Release: Ten New Schools Use EANS Funding to Support PBL and STEAM

SmartLab Learning partners with California Catholic Diocese Schools to help them implement their innovative learning systems using…

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Vista Equity Funds Denver Public Schools’ Newest STEM SmartLab

Denver Public Schools celebrated its newest SmartLab at Montbello Campus with a ribbon cutting ceremony this week. Attending the ceremony…

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News

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Assessing Project-Based Learning

Click here to jump to the Self Evaluation PBL Assessments below: Evaluating Our Practice The benefits of a student-led, project-based…

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Strategies for Empowering Students to Own Their Learning

In December, I argued that students need context and confidence to be engaged in their learning. This month, we’ll look at what might be…

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Visit A Lab

Ready to start planning your own SmartLab? We’re excited to hear from…

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Public Schools

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Award-Winning Video: Wilder Elementary School

Give a round of applause for Littleton, Colorado’s Laura Ingalls Wilder Elementary School! They have been awarded first place our…

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Award-Winning Video: California Elementary School

Earlier this year we announced our first annual Learning Is Different Here™ contest. We received entries from schools across the…

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Where Learners Come into Their Own Thinking

The team at Lake Oswego School District in Oregon recently installed a number of SmartLab HQs throughout their district. Two of their…

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Private Schools

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A Space to Pursue Ideas, Intuition, and Creativity

The team at Father Ryan High School in Nashville welcomed sophomores, juniors, and seniors into their new, technology-filled SmartLab HQ at…

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Rising to the Challenge

The learners at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School (OLPH) in Chattanooga, TN started the new school year with a brand new SmartLab…

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Award-Winning Video: The Oakwood School

A hearty congrats to the students and staff from The Oakwood School in Greenville, NC, as they were awarded second place in our Learning Is…

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STEM

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Project Examples: Teaching STEM Through PBL

PBL and STEM have been around long enough to earn the dubious distinctions of:   Buzz words or not, these two aren’t going…

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SmartLab Wins 2022 STEM/STEAM Instructional Solution of the Year

Last week, SmartLab was awarded STEM/STEAM Instructional Solution of the Year by the Institute for Education…

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Engagement is Foundational to Any Learning Outcome

Thirteen-year-old Allison was on the verge of tears. It was November and she did not want to go to school only to sit through another…

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