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  • Close-knit community in Port Orford and Langlois, Oregon

    September 05, 2021 |

    COVID-19 Data Dispatch |

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    Response Location: United States, Port Orford, Oregon

    Despite its tiny size and modest resources, the Port Orford-Langlois school district in Oregon managed to minimize coronavirus spread among students in the 2020-21 school year. A key factor was the partnership between the town and school libraries. Librarians prepared educational packets, sparing parents from having to scramble for materials. Schools and families dutifully followed safety guidelines while putting a priority on getting the youngest students into the classroom as soon as possible and preserving opportunities for them to play together. There were no cases of the virus spread in the schools.

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  • Personal responsibility in Andrews, Texas

    August 29, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Andrews, Texas

    Thanks to a trusting and open relationship between school officials and parents, Andrews, Texas, schools kept COVID-19 infections under control when classes resumed in August 2020, even though virtual learning was hardly used and some CDC guidelines on quarantines and masks were disregarded. School officials navigated local politics over pandemic controls by emphasizing personal responsibility while taking precautions like improving classroom ventilation, intensive cleaning regimens, and keeping kids outdoors more often.

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  • Latest student-built tiny home, now merely small, rolls off to a permanent location in Bridgewater

    August 26, 2021 |

    The Laconia Daily Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Laconia, New Hampshire

    High school students from several schools got hands-on construction experience by building tiny homes that are then sold at under-market prices to people needing housing. The training is provided to the students at Huot Technical Education Center, with mentoring from volunteers from the building trades. Four houses have been built and delivered so far in the program, which was slowed but not stopped by pandemic restrictions.

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  • These Texas schools offer lessons on how to quickly catch up kids learning English during pandemic

    August 25, 2021 |

    Dallas Morning News |

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    Response Location: United States, Fort Worth, Texas

    The International Newcomer Academy provides English language learning students with a learning environment where they can catch up on their language skills before moving on to regular campuses. Teachers at the academy are specifically trained to provide language support and teach in an understandable way through visuals, repetition, and communication.

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  • Surviving in One of the World's Deadliest Places for Trans People

    August 24, 2021 |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Mexico City

    Mexico’s first official shelter for former trans sex workers, Casa Hogar Paola Buenrostro, provides residents with tools trans women cannot typically access such as health care, education, and job training.

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  • A push to change Colorado's prison culture and perceptions — one art piece at a time

    August 23, 2021 |

    Colorado Newsline |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    The Prison Arts Initiative program, jointly run by the Colorado prison system and University of Denver, puts personal expression through visual and performing arts at the heart of the prisons' mission to become less punitive and more rehabilitative. With exhibits like "Chained Voices," featuring paintings by incarcerated people, the program aims to give hope to people by making them feel seen and valued as fully human. Formerly incarcerated artists say they valued not only the personal growth they experienced, but also the knowledge that their art could change public perceptions of the people in prison.

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  • Community over wifi in Garrett County, Maryland

    August 22, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Garrett County, Maryland

    Garrett County students were able to get back in school quickly because the district built trust with its community by providing families with crucial supplies, carefully planning the reopening, and communicating extensively with parents. When remote learning was required because of COVID-19, the district provided families with computers, tablets, central Wi-Fi hotspots, and delivered meals, which built trust and opened lines of communication. When students were brought back into the classroom, parents trusted the district to prioritize safety and their feedback was incorporated and responded to.

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  • Fighting Boko Haram One Book At A Time In Cameroon's Far North

    August 22, 2021 |

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    Response Location: Cameroon, Maroua

    In Cameroon's Far North region, mobile libraries lend books to children and adults who have been deprived of both libraries and education by Boko Haram militants. The tricycle-powered libraries are part of Lire au Sahel (Read in the Sahel), an organization begun in 2018. The group now has about 5,000 books and has served about 500 adults and 1,000 children in the region.

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  • How art can keep boys off truancy into gainful business

    August 16, 2021 |

    Impacthub Media |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    An art program works with young men and teens who aren’t in school, takes them off the street, and gives them the skills to make different mediums of art, which are sold in the community. The teens and young men are given part of the proceeds and many have used the skills they learned to open up their own workshops.

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  • Education first

    August 15, 2021 |

    Adirondack Explorer |

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    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    The Grand Canyon National Park launched a “hike smart” campaign as a way to educate hikers about the risks of traversing in the canyon and to decrease the number of search and rescue incidents. While measuring the success of such preventative measures can be difficult, the number of incidents has remained flat since the campaign was introduced in the 1990s, despite an increase in visitors.

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