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3 weeks ago | 
edweek.org | Sam Mallon |Jaclyn Borowski
School gardens offer an opportunity for learning that extends far beyond the soil and plants. Through these spaces, students absorb pivotal lessons on everything from math to English/language arts, while learning problem solving skills and building empathy for each other and the world around them. By moving, touching, smelling, and tasting, they’re actively engaged in the lessons and passionate about the topic at hand.
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1 month ago | 
edweek.org | Jaclyn Borowski |Sam Mallon
Social-emotional learning is at the core of Carrie White’s 2nd grade classroom in Schenectady, N.Y.The veteran teacher has been in the classroom for nearly 20 years. Reflecting on that journey, she discusses not only how much the teaching profession has changed in that time, but how much the kids have changed, too. No longer is focusing on the academics enough, she says, as kids come into her classroom with “big emotions” that they need to learn how to handle.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
edweek.org | Mark Lieberman |Sam Mallon
Electric school buses are hitting the road in nearly every state—but they’re still a long way from ubiquity. School districts nationwide collectively operate roughly 5,000 electric buses and have made commitments for at least 7,200 more. They emit virtually none of the toxic chemicals and unpleasant noises that emanate from America’s half-million school diesel buses every day. And in the long term, they save districts money on fuel bills.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
ellsworthamerican.com | Sam Mallon
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
edweek.org | Caitlynn Peetz |Sam Mallon
If there’s one thing Martha Strever has learned in her 63 years of teaching, it’s how to adapt. Strever has taught math at the same middle school in Red Hook, N.Y., since 1961, solidifying herself as one of the longest-tenured teachers in America. She’s seen transformation after transformation—from the introduction of the calculator to the emergence of artificial intelligence—and, at times, helped her district adopt and adapt to these new methods of learning.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
edweek.org | Kaylee Domzalski |Sam Mallon
When it comes to student engagement, this district leader seems to have cracked the code. Kate Maxlow, the director of curriculum, instruction, and assessment for Hampton City Schools in Hampton, Va., has figured out how to incorporate immersive adventures into lessons to enhance student learning and engagement. These lessons incorporate what the students are already learning into an immersive adventure in which they’re able to make decisions that shape the outcome.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
edweek.org | Sam Mallon |Jaclyn Borowski
Some PD just scratches the surface. This national parks program takes teachers deep underground. At Mammoth Cave National Park, a group of educators got a hands-on look at science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) curricula this July as part of an overnight professional development workshop.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
edweek.org | Kaylee Domzalski |Sam Mallon
Turns out escape rooms aren’t just for birthday parties and outings with friends. Kate Maxlow, the director of curriculum, instruction, and assessment for Hampton City Schools in Hampton, Va., incorporates escape rooms and other immersive adventures into a form of professional development that keeps teachers engaged, and then translates that engagement back into the classroom.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
edweek.org | Olina Banerji |Sam Mallon
New York state, home to the largest school district in the country, is the latest to ban schools from conducting “realistic” active shooter drills with fake blood and the sound of gunfire. The new rule, which goes into effect at the start of this school year, calls for a more “trauma-informed” and “age-appropriate” approach to shooter drills that excludes the use of props, actors, or tactics depicting violence when school or extracurricular activities are in session.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
edweek.org | Olina Banerji |Sam Mallon
In April, Tennessee became the 34th state to allow teachers to carry guns at school, joining a club that’s burgeoned in the last decade, after South Dakota became the first state in 2013 to enact legislation allowing educators to be armed. The strategy is controversial but increasingly popular with Republican-led state legislatures as schools continue to grapple with the threat—and reality—of gun violence.
