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  • The quest to help traumatized children learn

    The Philadelphia School District is working to integrate trauma-informed teaching and care into its strategy. It has partnered with Lakeside Global Initiative and the Institute for Family Professionals to offer trainings and classes that help educators understand how trauma affects learning, and what changes can be made to help those experiencing trauma learn. While over 850 teachers have taken the trainings, they are costly, and looking forward may be hard to sustain.

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  • Woman-led puppet theater brings health education to Burmese villages

    In the rural villages surrounding Mandalay in Myanmar, marionette puppet masters pull the strings to teach children about topics ranging from health and hygiene to human trafficking. In addition to offering memorable lessons to students, the shows offer entrepreneurial women a chance to enter a profession once reserved for males.

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  • Civic Participation Begins in Schools

    The educational system in the United States prioritizes individual student success over the common civic good. But schools and organizations are bringing back civics education by creating democratic learning environments inside schools and helping students work on real-world policy issues.

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  • Munich teaches women how to run a startup while having a family

    Starting a business is a daunting task for anyone, but women often face the additional barrier of caring for a family at the same time as launching a company. Guide is a Munich-based consulting service that has provided education, resources, and training to over 5000 female founders to help their companies succeed.

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  • This Woman Is Single-Handedly Eradicating Child Marriage from Malawi

    Since beginning office Senior Chief Theresa Kachindamoto, tribal ruler of the Dedza District in central Malawi had one mission: To end child marriages. “In 2017 alone, the chief annulled some 200 child marriages in her district. During her 14-year reign, she has terminated the marriages of roughly 2,600 child brides and helped the girls finish their education, often by subsidizing their school.”

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  • All-girls auto shop class teaches students to be confident, self-sufficient

    Amidst the movement to integrate Career Technical Education (CTE) into college courses, one teacher decided to develop an all-female introductory auto shop class, empowering high school girls to learn skills that are in high demand in the area but that they might not normally seek out. The teacher has observed that female students are much more comfortable in advanced classes following their completion of introductory classes separate from male classmates.

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  • Children's Cabinet

    In Somerville, MA, businesses, nonprofits, government officials, and schools take a collaborative and holistic approach to improving children's lives. “Thinking about city budget, priorities, decision-making through the lens of kids ensures good outcomes for everybody,” a director of the initiative notes. Could Philadelphia benefit from breaking down silos and following Somerville's innovative lead?

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  • Come together: how music is rebuilding bridges in divided Balkans

    Mostar Rock School is a school that takes students from both sides of the Nereta river, which divides the Bosnian Croat population and the Bosnian Muslims. The school allows students from different ethnic backgrounds to intermingle, create music, and it defies the ethnic division created after the Bosnian war. “There were 16 students in the first class. This year, there are 128 enrolled and 80 more on the waiting list.”

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  • At 25, Running Start is a success. Now it must attract students who need it the most.

    Washington state boasts one of the country's most established and successful dual-credit programs, allowing students to earn college credits while still in high school (at no cost). Some participants even graduate high school with an associates degree, significantly cutting potential student loans. Now the nationally recognized program is turning to face its own limitations - how can it increase access for low-income students, who only made up 5 percent of the 2016-2017 cohort?

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  • The ballerina who rescued 100,000 children with hip-hop

    Vania Masías abandoned her prolific career as a professional ballerina to teach impoverished youth in Peru hip hop. “More than 100,000 children have passed through the programme over the years.”

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