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News for Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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Walter Payton College Prep High School
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Cultivating a Student's Global Consciousness
A Seattle school excites students with the promise of an interconnected world.
Readings, Viewings, and Listenings
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Young Homewood Authors' Book Distributed to Global Audience
This month, students in the village of Kambi ya Simba, in Tanzania, will receive a book, In Our Village, written by Shades Cahaba Elementary School third graders. Students all over the world will also get the book through the In Our Global Village international book project. -- Birmingham News (Birmingham, Alabama)
Related Edutopia article: Pakistani Students Share Their Culture's Lore Online
Council Bluffs Schools to Try Project-Based Learning
This fall, the Council Bluffs Community School District will start using project learning, an approach that could help students who have trouble in a traditional classroom. -- Daily Nonpareil (Council Bluffs, Iowa)
Related Edutopia video: Project-Based Learning: An Overview
Inventive Summer Camp
More than a hundred English as a Second Language students from H.W. Smith School, in Syracuse, New York, are spending the month at a hands-on science summer program called Camp Invention. The program's projects include designing a city from scratch, building a space shuttle, and creating a marble slide. -- Post-Standard (Syracuse, New York)
Related Edutopia article: Reaching Out to English-Language Learners
Green Awakening Opens Up Worlds of Math and Science
Smith Middle School held a three-week summer program, called the Green Awakening, which targets rising ninth graders who struggle with math and science. -- Chapel Hill Herald (Durham, North Carolina)
Related Edutopia video: STEM Projects Encourage Students to Excel
Environment Isn't Clean, Kids Learn
An end-of-the-year science project on the impact of pollution grabbed the imaginations and emotions of sixth graders at Fletcher Middle School, and their teachers hope that passion will carry on into their summer. -- Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville)
Related Edutopia video: Kids Care for Their Environment
Before You Can Teach, You Need to Learn
The Project Lead the Way curriculum focuses on teaching math and science concepts -- particularly those related to engineering -- in a hands-on way that shows students how those concepts apply in life. It's supposed to be the opposite of the rote, abstract instruction most students encounter in math and science classrooms. -- Beaufort Gazette (Beaufort, South Carolina)
Related Edutopia article: Why Integrate Technology into the Curriculum?
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Opportunities and Resources
The George Lucas Educational Foundation Grant Information List
California Council on Teacher Education's Internationalization of Teacher Education Conference (October 16-18; San Diego; for K-12 and higher-education teachers, administrators, and policy makers)
OneWorld Classrooms (free online resources to help students "travel" around the world, and hub for K-12 classrooms to interact with overseas partners)
The Global Education Collaborative (virtual community for teachers and students, with media and news, discussion forum, and collaborative project ideas)
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