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We’ve been hosting SummerSTEM teachers for 5 years now and it just keeps getting better and better. This year, our focus was on data, which is central to SAS’s mission and also an important component of project-based learning (PBL). If you’re not familiar, the SummerSTEM program is led by Wake
APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 7, 2019, at 11:59 pm EST. We at Curriculum Pathways are excited to announce the fourth Teacher Institute (June 19-August 9)! The application is open and ready for your submission. The deadline for applications is April 7, 2019, at 11:59 pm EST. We always say "in-service teachers are our number-one source for
As an intern for Curriculum Pathways this last summer, I have spent my days learning about the resources from the inside out. As I settled in, I became familiar with the nuts and bolts of the Curriculum Pathways process: who makes the resources, how we code our lessons, and what
Every day we hear from educators and students. And every day we listen -- to a tweet, an email supporting our team, a survey response, a comment on a resource at curriculumpathways.com, a review in the App Store, a rating in the Add-Ons for Google Docs, a comment on a
A few years back my daughter and her husband announced that a great job would be taking them from the North Carolina of their birth to upstate New York. Now, if you know anything about the demographics of North Carolina over the past decade or more, you will identify this
APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED! Due: April 9th, 2018, at 11:59 pm EST. We at Curriculum Pathways are excited to announce the third Teacher Institute (June 18-August 10)! The application is open and ready for your submission. The deadline for applications is March 30th, 2018, at 11:59 pm EST April 9th, 2018, at 11:59 pm EST. We always say
Working to reinforce the virtues extolled in our Writing Reviser, we’ve prepared a series of English language arts videos starring a lovable pit-bull named Muggs—aptly named after a dog owned by the famous American writer James Thurber. The synergy between the two tools has helped many students learn to write more forcefully,
The SAS Curriculum Pathways team suffered a loss recently, as writer and editor Tim McBride’s American Staffordshire Terrier (Pit bull), Muggs passed away at the age of 10. Now, many of us have pets and we don’t usually spend much time chronicling them here. But Muggs was different. Over the
This was a summer like no other. I was selected for the SAS Curriculum Pathways Teacher Institute, helping to develop, design, and evaluate their lessons, tools, and apps. I'm always looking for better ways to engage my students and explore new resources, so I went in ready to learn more about
4 Strategies to Create Tomorrow's Classroom by Lucy Kosturko was originally published on Getting Smart. The vision for tomorrow’s classroom looks nothing like the antiquated stereotype: students sitting in rows, passively listening to a lecture, followed by rote memorization tasks from a dusty, used textbook: some students in the “audience” nodding
No Cost. No Catch. How One Company Hopes to Close the Achievement Gap by Lucy Kosturko was originally posted on Getting Smart. Tucked along the northern coast of Spain lies the Cave of Altamira. For those who haven’t brushed up on your Upper Paleolithic history in a while, the Cave of
Over the past couple of years, we've done a vast amount of research to publish our latest book, Mobile Learning: A Handbook for Developers, Educators, and Learners. The primary takeaway? [SPOILER ALERT!] Mobile learning initiatives are complex, confusing, convoluted... You get the idea. There is no silver bullet, and with so
I learned to weld in high school. Not that well to be certain, but I understand the basics. To this day, I recognize the skill needed to lay down a smooth bead. Back then, Amador County High School, had a mandatory full-year technical education course that split students each
Dear Girls of the World, I spent a lot of time as a young girl like you, wondering what type of career I might like. Now I’m part of a profession that is growing fast, with plenty of openings for high-paying jobs (a projected 1 million jobs in 2020, actually!)
While it may seem like a cliché uttered by an aging rock band, we are "big in Thailand." No, really! Since 1999, SAS Curriculum Pathways has been making a difference in the lives of students, teachers, and parents. Through interactive, web-based technology, SAS Curriculum Pathways delivers educational resources and curricula that
Jumper cables, safety goggles, rubber gloves, a charmingly mad scientist, an endearingly animated and naïve student, a dangerous-looking contraption for “teleportation,” a boondoggle of frayed electrical wires—this unlikely mélange forms the set for our Spanish language videos—which follow the adventures of Miguel Del Mundo and his sidekick, Sabo. “Our primary
Since 1999, SAS Curriculum Pathways has been making a difference in the lives of students, teachers and parents. And that impact doesn’t stop at international borders. Several schools in South Africa have implemented SAS Curriculum Pathways, including one school in the Diepsloot area. Murray de Villiers, General Manager: Academic Program
In 2008, I agreed to foster an ominous-looking shelter dog no one seemed willing to adopt. He doesn't have any papers, but a glance at his noggin makes clear that he's not a greyhound or a whippet. He's an American pit-bull terrier. Although his well-armored head and fence-post neck suggest he was
As a pre-service teacher, one of the most exciting, challenging, exhausting, and rewarding experiences is student teaching. During my student teaching semester, I was placed in a Common Core Math 1 class at a high school in Wake County, North Carolina. I found that as a CCM 1 teacher, understanding the mathematical content is
In part 1 of our copyright discussion we looked at asset and copyright basics. Today we’ll talk text assets and some challenges in science and math. Words Words Words Text assets nearly always require extra research. It’s a pretty safe bet that the original Chaucer or Shakespeare texts are in the public
As educators, we all need to grow. While not in the classroom anymore, I want to keep in touch with new teaching approaches and the needs of students and teachers. For me, two new ways of doing that are by using social media and attending my first Edcamp. On Saturday,
Kelvin (the N.C. Science Festival robot) came to SAS in preparation for the N.C. Science Festival. He had a grand ole time meeting new faces and, even better, new technologies. And I am not going to lie, I enjoyed touring the campus to find more fun things I didn't even
We love being a sponsor of the NC Science Festival every year – and today we thought we would have a little fun with science! Many of us here at Curriculum Pathways are parents and our kids loved playing with "slime." We figured Kelvin would too, so we raided our cabinets, got
The College Board recently reported that the number of U.S. public school students taking Advanced Placement classes nearly doubled over the last decade. No doubt that growth has impacted schools, resources, and--in particular--AP teachers. As a new Advanced Placement teacher, I remember needing strong lessons and resources, and lots of
It's an exciting morning here at SAS. We just found out we are ranked #2 on this year's FORTUNE Best Companies to Work For list. SAS has been on the U.S. list every year since FORTUNE first published it. We've been in the top 10 many times with back-to-back No.
George Bernard Shaw once noted that "England and America are two countries separated by a common language," or perhaps it was Oscar Wilde, or maybe Winston Churchill. At any rate, we find examples of this linguistic divergence in many areas. Automobile terminology seems particularly prone to differences: In the United States
(Editor's note: The latest addition to our Spanish Video Library, La gente, is now available both within Curriculum Pathways and on YouTube.) ¡Saludos! Es un placer introducirte a nuestra serie de videos para aprender el español. Seguirás las aventuras del Profesor Miguel del Mundo y su amigo Sabo, quien quiere aprender el
When I was 3, my mom was trying to get dinner started (oh mom, how I feel you now!) and she popped a floppy disk in our Apple II with the game Facemaker. I was mesmerized. I added beards and noses to my little guy like it was my job. From that point
A few years back we were in Orlando for the Blended and Online Learning Symposium. In addition to our conference sessions, we had the opportunity to introduce new users to Curriculum Pathways in our booth. Again and again we heard the same refrain, "You can’t really be free!" Actually we get that
In the beginning was the word, along with the pencil and paper, and the word was with students. Eons later, teachers looked at student writing and saw that it was (to invert the Old Testament lingo) not good: a Tower of Babel. So our priority was to create a set
