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How School-Based Health Care Can Contribute to Closing the Achievement Gap

Anne OBrienFebruary 3, 2011

Tags Achievement Gap, Teacher Development, All Grades, Colorado

Some strategies to close the achievement gap are widely discussed -- lowering class sizes and paying educators a bonus to work in a low-income environment, for example. Others are not. For instance, you rarely hear about efforts to close the gap by providing school-based healthcare. But in Colorado's Montrose County School District RE-1J, that's what they're trying.

PBL Camp Concludes, but the Real Fun Is Still Ahead

Suzie BossAugust 11, 2010

Tags Primary (K-2), Project-Based Learning, Technology Integration, Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle (6-8), High (9-12), California, Colorado, Georgia

Back in July, we kicked off Edutopia's first-ever Project-Based Learning Camp by posing a big question: How can educators turn the Gulf oil disaster into meaningful learning for students?

Marshmallows, Innovation, and Good Talk at ISTE

Suzie BossJuly 16, 2010

Tags Project-Based Learning, Technology Integration, All Grades, Colorado

ISTE, the world's largest educational technology conference, drew record crowds to Denver this year to talk about the latest trends in everything from cloud computing to social media to interactive white boards. On the last morning of this mega-event, as I stood in front of my poster station clutching a bag of marshmallows, I couldn't help but wonder what I'd gotten myself into.

The Art of Building School Community

Suzie BossDecember 2, 2009

Tags Professional Learning Network (PLN), , Teacher Development, High (9-12), Colorado

At Eagle Rock School, in Estes Park, Colorado, the alpine air is so thin, it literally takes your breath away. For most of the 96 teens living and learning here, the Rocky Mountain setting couldn't be more different from the city streets they've left behind.

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