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  • Project Oklahoma: New activity-based learning program helping elementary students

    January 21, 2020 |

    KTUL-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    What if kids were allowed to bounce on yoga balls or draw while they were learning to read? Some teachers and researchers in Oklahoma believe "action-based learning" can help students with behavioral challenges.

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  • À Mitrovica, le rock pour lutter contre les divisions entre Albanais et Serbes au Kosovo

    January 20, 2020 |

    Equal Times |

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    Response Location: Kosovo, Mitrovica

    Au Kosovo, cette école de musique contre les conflits entre Serbe et Albanais en formant des groupes de musique mixtes. En onze ans, la Rock school Mitrovica a vu passer plus de 1.100 jeunes dans ses locaux et elle accueille aujourd’hui environ 80 élèves par an.

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  • The Mitrovica Rock School: bridging the divide between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo

    January 20, 2020 |

    Equal Times |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Kosovo, Mitrovica

    Music can bridge cultural divides. The Mitrovica Rock School in Mitroviva, Kosovo, encourages young musicians of Albanian and Serbian backgrounds to create music together. The culturally “mixed” bands play across Kosovo. The rock school was founded through a collaboration between Musicians Without Borders and Community Building Mitrovica after Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia.

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  • Privilege for the poor: Farming giant gives back — to its workers' children

    January 18, 2020 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Lost Hills, California

    Owners of the Wonderful Company food conglomerate honed their philanthropic efforts on the community they saw had the most need—their own workers' families—by establishing charter schools to improve the quality of life and education in Lost Hills, California. The K-8 school, one of two, has adopted a "cradle to career'' approach, incentivizing college education through in-school college pathways and renewable college scholarships after completing high school, and integrating parents into its mission through tailored educational sessions aimed at bridging cultural divides.

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  • Visiting days: How a Detroit high school extends its family feel by sticking with graduates through college Audio icon

    January 16, 2020 |

    Chalkbeat Detroit |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    At Jalen Rose Leadership Academy in Detroit, the support of the high school doesn't stop at graduation. Staff at the school follow up with alumni at their new campuses to make sure they are on track and connect them with the resources they need to succeed, whether academic, financial, or social.

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  • ‘Like A Flu Shot' For Addiction Crisis: Training High School Students As Recovery Coaches

    January 13, 2020 |

    West Virginia Public Broadcasting |

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    Response Location: United States, Clay, West Virginia

    A town in West Virginia was lacking resources for mental health care, so high school juniors were tapped to fill the need. Learning skills such as how to use naloxone to in an overdose situation to asking open-ended questions to intervene in a crisis, the students walked away from a “life & recovery coach academy” equipped with usable skills, college credits, and a certificate, while also reentering their community as more engaged citizens.

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  • Special-needs students are college-bound: UCCS graduates first class in May

    January 12, 2020 |

    Colorado Springs Gazette |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    An inclusion program established by lawmakers in Colorado allows intellectually disabled students to attend their choice of several colleges throughout the state. Mentors and staff help guide students through their years in school, and standard measures of success like entrance exam scores are replaced with staff evaluations.

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  • This Montana Group Has Adventurers Working for Scientists

    January 10, 2020 |

    Bitterroot |

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    Response Location: United States, Bozeman, Montana

    Outdoor enthusiasts make effective citizen scientists. In Montana, Adventure Scientists pairs outdoor adventure-seekers with scientists looking to collect data in remote locations. The volunteers gather data that inform US Forest Service and other conservation studies. The project has led to research collection by volunteers worldwide.

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  • These two Bibb County schools have a solution to bad behavior: breathing and meditation

    January 10, 2020 |

    The Telegraph |

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    Response Location: United States, Macon, Georgia

    In Georgia’s Bibb county, students at two schools are learning deep breathing and mindfulness from the organization, On the Same Breath. The practice, introduced by the organization and then led by teachers, gives students the opportunity to complete this practice every day for 40 days in the hopes that it will address behavioral issues and stress. It’s currently in the pilot stage for Bibb county, but the Atlantic public school system has been using it for years.

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  • How Educators Are Rethinking The Way They Teach Immigration History

    January 09, 2020 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Boston

    At one Boston public school, teachers are updating curricula to provide students with history lessons that contextualize current national debates about immigration policy.

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