Our amazing Program Manager, Erin LaVine, shared her thoughts about the article as it relates to camp and True Friends. “As someone who is one of the first to share stories of people with disabilities achieving great feats, I find this article wonderfully written and eye opening.
Some students at a Maine high school are learning math and physics by building and repairing bicycles. The learning program began 11 years ago with a focus on at-risk students, but the school has now opened the class as an elective or science credit for all students.
In a portable classroom behind Westbrook High School, seven students are hard at work repairing bicycles.
“I can’t tell you the name of a tool to save my life,” admits Harley Baker, as she straightens the wheels on her purple BMX. “But I can show you how to put a bike together.”
Continue reading the article here: http://www.pressherald.com/2015/05/10/legwork-fixing-bikes-helps-teens-and-kids-who-need-wheels/
“A third-grade teacher at a Denver elementary school decided to try to get to know her students better — most of whom come from low-income families — and gave them a writing assignment in which she hoped they would reveal something about themselves. Kyle Schwartz called the activity ‘I wish my teacher knew’ — and she wound up learning more than she thought.”
Colorado elementary-school teacher Kyle Schwartz gave her students a writing assignment to get to know them. She asked them to complete the sentence “I wish my teacher knew…,” an assignment that has gone viral. The responses have given Schwartz a look inside the lives of her students, most from families with low incomes.
Continue reading the article here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/04/17/i-wish-my-teacher-knew-poignant-notes-from-students/
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Hey readers! Be sure to check out the latest issue of Teaching Today – Minnesota, now available online! This issue features some amazing articles, such as incorporating Yoga with learning, students transforming a local landfill, and much more.
You’re not going to want to miss this issue! Check it out right now at http://www.teachingtodaymn.com
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Educators should teach students to create and track their personal academic goals to teach them to be self-directed, disciplined learners, teacher-coach Elizabeth Stein writes in this blog post. She offers five ideas and includes links to resources to help students create charts, journals or calendars of their goals.
“With a new year comes the typical task of making resolutions, right? Well, not for me. The truth is I have learned that I am much more successful without making resolutions.
Resolutions feel too regimented, and they often lead to the stress of needing to do something different – something “better” simply because it’s a new year. Yet all too often, the hustle and bustle of everyday responsibilities yield little or no wiggle room.”
Continue reading Stein’s article here: http://www.middleweb.com/20021/5-aids-help-students-set-learning-goals/
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“As a student, I had great difficulty concentrating during lesson time and consequently didn’t retain much knowledge. I was diagnosed with dyslexia and had the symptoms of attention deficit disorder. Academic information just didn’t get through to me. Here are samples of reports that my teachers sent home when I was ten:
The comments contained no evidence that I would one day become an eight-time World Memory Champion and author of over a dozen books and courses on memory training. So what happened?”
Continue reading Dominic’s story here: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/win-the-memory-game-dominic-obrien
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The physical education staff at Cameron High School may be one of the few who believe playing video games can actually make students more physically active.
They proved this point at the Be Healthy Now open house event last week, showing off the school’s exergaming room, which features several television sets with Xbox gaming systems and various fitness games, an interactive lightboard game, a ping pong table, stretchbands and a basketball arcade game.
Continue reading the article here! : http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/598240/Getting-Students-in-Shape-Is-All-Fun—Games-at-Cameron-High-School.html
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