Our STEAMMers' Universal NetworkS
The core: ~Vision~ Our SUNS is a K-8th 1:1 general
The core: ~Vision~ Our SUNS is a K-8th 1:1 general
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~Vision~
Our SUNS is a K-8th 1:1 general tutoring service with creative and innovative hearts-in and hands-on play/workshops.
~Vision~
Our SUNS is a K-8th 1:1 general tutoring service with creative and innovative hearts-in and hands-on play/workshops.
Our SUNS' vision is to enhance and expand children's learning scopes beyond traditional schooling by nurturing and educating each and every child at their personal levels as a whole child from the core. The work is done through the personal and professional networking and implementing research based teaching/learning practices to develop each child to be life-long STEAMM learners, doers and innovators both locally and globally.
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~Mission~
Our SUNS' mission is to value, nurture, inspire, and develop each individual child as a whole child who will be noble, well-rounded, healthy and happy STEAMMers who are productive local/global citizens and innovative leaders.
~Mission~
Our SUNS' mission is to value, nurture, inspire, and develop each individual child as a whole child who will be noble, well-rounded, healthy and happy STEAMMers who are productive local/global citizens and innovative leaders.

~Core Practices~
*Imagine.
*Believe.
*Work.
*Grow.
*Build.
*Innovate.
*Collaborate.
*Be Beautiful from the Inside Out.
~Areas of Focus~
*K-8th age STEAMMers
*Integration and applications of STEAMM
*Personal and Professional Networkings
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~Action Plans~
*Whole Child Pedagogy
"Learning by head, hand and heart."
~Johann H.Pestalozzi~
*Visible-Teaching, Visible-Learning
"When teachers see
the learning through the eyes
of the students
and the students see
themselves as their own teachers."
~John Hattie~
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*~~~Most Effective
Researched Based
Educational
Strategies
&
Practices~~~*

*Our STEAMMers' Brains
&
Their
Wondrous Beauties*
...For all the STEAMMers...
: Your Amazing Brain - National Geographic Kids
: Mysteries of the Unseen World - Official Movie Site ...
: The Secret Life of the Brain - PBS
: Your Brain & Nervous System - KidsHealth
: Neuroscience for Kids - Resources
: BrainPOP - Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science ...
...For the older STEAMMers...
: Cognitive Neuroscience Society
: Organization for Human Brain Mapping: Home
: Brain Architecture - Center on the Developing Child...developingchild.harvard.edu
: Experiences Build Brain Architecture...developingchild.harvard.edu
: What You Should Know About Your Brain - ASCD
: How to Teach Students About the Brain - ASCD
: What Kids Should Know About Their Own Brains | MindShift
: Research in Brain Function and Learning
: How Does Our Brain Learn New Information? - Scientific ...
: How the Brain Learns Best - Scholastic
: How the Brain Learns - US News
: Teaching Students A "Brain Owner's Manual" - Johns Hopkins
: BrainWeb
*"The All-About Me!"
Whole-Child/
Holistic Education*
:Taking a stand for 'the whole child' approach to school reform
: Home Page — Whole Child Education
: What Does It Mean to Educate the Whole Child? - Sage ...
: Holistic education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
: A Holistic View of Education and Schooling - Educational ...
Click to WATCH & GROW
Click to WATCH & GROW
: Education | Topics | Watch | TED - TED.com
: Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education | Talk Video | TED ...
: Sugata Mitra's 5 favorite education talks | Playlist | TED.com
: Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death ... - TED.com
: Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds ...
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*Top
Global Educational
Models*
: What America Can Learn From the World's Leading Schools ...
: Why Other Countries Teach Better - The New York Times
: Achievement Growth: International and U.S. State Trends in ...
: Why Are Finland's Schools Successful? - Smithsonian
: NEA - What we can learn from Finland's successful school ...
: Opinion: What Asian schools can teach the rest of the world ...
*Best Practices*
~Balanced Curriculum~
:Educates the whole child (BEP)
:Based on best knowledge of how children develop and learn (NASBE)
:Promotes brain growth and development through an enriched environment (Diamond & Hopson)
:Allows students to use the whole brain (Zull)
:Prepares students for success in school and in life (NCLB/NCDPI)
:Develop new, necessary skills and abilities to be successful in school and in life (CCSSO)
:Multiple intelligences (Gardner)
:Find relevance in and connections with learning (Jensen)
:Develop a love of learning and become life-long learners
:Understand themselves and those around them
:Includes all subjects (NCLRC)
:Provides a curriculum that is rigorous, relevant and promotes relationships (NCSBE)
:Includes a challenging and common curriculum (CCSSO)
:Creates active participants (Diamond & Hopson)
:Globalization (21st Century Skills)
:Includes entire Standard Course of Study (SCS)
*Differentiated Curriculum*
:Understanding Student Differences
:Differentiated Instruction - Videos, Articles, Resources, Experts
:Differentiated Instruction | Edutopia
:Delivering Differentiated Instruction in Your Classroom
:Differentiation and The Brain: A discussion with Carol-Ann ...
:Howard Gardner | Multiple Intelligences
:Applications, Reliability and Validity of the Index of Learning Styles
:Are Learning Styles Invalid? (Hint: No!) -
:Provides opportunities for individual acceleration and remediation
:Nurtures self-esteem and respect
:Set individual learning goals
:Develop personal skills and talents
:Increases motivation through exploring individual interests
:Utilize their strengths and background knowledge
:Master core concepts
:Builds relationships with students

*STEAMM
Pedagogy*
:5 C STEAMM Goals (Our SUNS):
->Citizenship
->Constructive learning
->Creativity
->Collaboration
->Communication
:5 E Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Cycle
->Engagement
->Exploration
->Explanation
->Elaboration
->Evaluation
:Student-Centered Instructional Strategy
-> Student-Centered Learning - The Glossary of Education ...
-> Personalized Learning - The Glossary of Education Reform
-> Students at the Center: Home
-> Motivation, Engagement, and Student Voice - The Nellie ...
*STEAMM Resources*
-> Winning the Education Future - The White House
-> Educate to Innovate | The White House
-> Transforming American Education: Learning Powered b
-> Preparing the Next Generation of STEM Innovators
-> Preparing Students for College and Careers in STEM ...
-> Report to the president prepare and inspire: k-12 education
-> A National Action Plan for Addressing the Critical Needs -
-> Successful K-12 STEM Education: Identifying Effective ...
-> A Compendium of Best Practice K-12 STEM Education ...
-> ALIGNING STEM EDUCATION TO 21st CENTURY ...
-> Preparing the Next Generation of STEM Innovators: Identifying
-> Science, technology, engineering and mathematics education
-> NEA - The 10 Best STEM Resources
-> Education Closet Arts Integration Lesson Seeds
-> The Power of Discovery: STEM ² | CSLNet
-> (STEM) Education What Form? What Function? - CurrT
-> What Should Be the Function of a K-12 STEM Education?
-> 10 Essential STEM Teaching Practices | MiddleWeb
-> The Art of STEAM | Scholastic. om
When You Wish Upon a Star
London Symphony Orchestra (Pop Symphony Vol. 3)