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Aug 25, 2024 | youthtoday.org | Tonyaa Weathersbee

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters. Jeromy Payne’s forebears grew crops in Senatobia, Mississippi, so he always had a link to the land. Now Payne is using that ancestral connection to teach reading to third graders at John P. Freeman Optional School in Memphis. The 30-year-old English Language Arts (ELA) the kids wanted to get outside more, so they renovated the learning garden.

Aug 15, 2024 | chalkbeat.org | Jessie Gomez |Tonyaa Weathersbee |Melanie Asmar |Azia Ross

Sign up for Chalkbeat Newark’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system. When Newark Public Schools opens its doors to roughly 40,000 students next month, the district will expand the use of an AI program in schools and implement solutions to ongoing facilities needs, Superintendent Roger León said in a wide-ranging interview this week.

Aug 15, 2024 | chalkbeat.org | Tonyaa Weathersbee |Melanie Asmar |Azia Ross |Haley Miller

How do teachers captivate their students? Here, in a feature we call How I Teach, we ask great educators how they approach their jobs. Jeromy Payne’s forebears grew crops in Senatobia, Mississippi, so he always had a link to the land. Now Payne is using that ancestral connection to teach reading to third graders at John P. Freeman Optional School in Memphis. The 30-year-old English Language Arts and social studies teacher accomplishes that through project-based learning, or PBL.

Aug 5, 2024 | chalkbeat.org | Dale Mezzacappa |Julian Shen-Berro |Kalyn Belsha |Tonyaa Weathersbee

Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system. Mayor Cherelle Parker said Monday that the city’s current reassessment of property values will generate about $115 million in additional revenue for Philadelphia schools over the next five years. “That’s not why we did it,” Parker said, “but that’s something we can all be happy about.”The city last did a reassessment in 2022.

Aug 5, 2024 | chalkbeat.org | Julian Shen-Berro |Kalyn Belsha |Tonyaa Weathersbee |Mila Koumpilova

Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. Edgar Cordova, a rising 12th grader at Xavier High School in Union Square, has spent his summer working in a school kitchen — bagging milk, cleaning tables, and cutting up fruit. But even though he’s surrounded by cooking constantly, he said he was excited to see a firsthand demonstration tailored to students.