For the past decade, NC State College of Education Dean Paola Sztajn has helped elementary school teachers improve their mathematics teaching practices through Project AIM (All Included in Mathematics). Now, she is expanding the program to better support school leaders and instructional coaches and have a stronger impact on students. Begun in 2010 with a grant from the National Science Foundation, the Project AIM professional development model helps elementary school teachers learn to promote mathematics discourse for all learners through strategies adapted from literacy instruction. Across several implementations, teachers who participated in Project AIM demonstrated a better understanding of mathematics discourse,…
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With a focus on creativity, critical thinking, and communication, the stories in the Encantos app help kids learn life lessons through stories. The storytelling platform features a variety of age-appropriate books, storycasts, videos, learning games, songs, and other digital tools to enhance your child’s experience and make learning fun. The stories within this app cover important topics like compassion, adaptability, resilience, diversity, multilingualism, environmentalism, and more.The Encantos app is free to download and play for a limited time. After a free trial period, a subscription plan is required to continue to use the app features. Monthly subscription plans start at…
When a Salford woman wrote a story based on her Windrush generation father, little did she know it would end up touring the country for Black History Month. Elayne Ogbeta, 52, from Pendleton, initially penned Grandad Anansi a decade ago, whilst she was working as a tutor at a Salford college. It was written as a tribute to her 89-year-old dad Ashley Malcolm, who moved to the UK from Jamaica. But when she showed it to the team at Manchester’s children’s theatre Z-arts, they could instantly see its potential as a stage show, and asked if Elayne would like to…
Indeed, we are at crisis point. The front page headline in Neos Kosmos two weeks was ‘Teacher Shortages reach crisis point’. Every principal that I have heard from is struggling to fill spots. Coburg West Primary School, one of five public primary schools left in the State that still offer Greek, has struggled to fill a part-time Modern Greek teacher position for over 12 months. Geelong Community are asking for a Greek Story Time at their public library network but the project has stalled due to lack of a facilitator. The Greek school has indicated they have always struggled to…
The Brooklyn Book Festival has always attracted huge crowds, year after year. Photo by Jasmina Tomic The Brooklyn Book Festival, New York City’s largest free literary festival, today announced a selection of highlight events spanning the literary festival’s wide variety of in-person and virtual offerings (September 25 through October 3). A full schedule of all Brooklyn Book Festival events will be announced in the coming weeks. Whether considering banned books, the blurring of reality and fantasy, social media’s relationship to literature, labor organizing, or self-defense and safety amidst a surge of racist violence, this year’s festival features a strong roster…
EAU CLAIRE (WQOW) – Families looking to enjoy the nice weather this weekend can stop by the Children’s Museum’s annual block party.On Saturday, families can expect plenty of activities, like rocket building with scouts, drone flying, face painting and fun hairstyles, along with games and information from the family resource center.The main event, the musical duo Koo Koo Kangaroo is traveling from Minnesota and taking the stage from noon to 1 p.m..The block party will also serve as a time to get to know the plans for the new museum.”The new museum will be the biggest thing. We were on…
Posted: September 6, 2022 Del Norte HS Presents 2nd Annual “Healthy Knights Fall Festival” on Sept 29th! Del Norte High School throws their 2nd annual “Healthy Knights Fall Festival,” featuring on-site Medicaid/SNAP enrollment, vaccinations for school kids of ALL ages, Covid vaccines, dozens of health-focused vendors & more! Flyer for “Del Norte Healthy Knights Fall Festival” Needing vaccinations for your APS student? Need a Covid vaccination or booster? Need to see if you qualify for reduced-cost or free healthcare, or need extra support? Everyone is welcome to the 2nd annual “Healthy Knights Fall Festival” at APS City Center featuring support for…
An interview with author Dan GemeinhartThe Children’s Book Review In this episode, I talk with Dan Gemeinhart, author of the acclaimed novel The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise. We discuss his newest middle grade novel, The Midnight Children. Dan Gemeinhart is a former elementary school teacher-librarian and lifelong book nerd. He lives with his wife and three daughters in a small town in Washington State. He’s the author of some other books, too: The Honest Truth, Some Kind of Courage, Scar Island, and Good Dog. He’d love to talk about books with you if he ever meets you. Listen to…
By David Jefferson, Sr.For decades, Newarkers have witnessed firsthand the harsh realities of our state’s public education system, specifically the deep inequalities people of color face. Whether battling an “achievement gap,” the “School-to-Prison Pipeline,” poison lead in our school water, or the decrepit buildings many children call their public education home, our city’s parents have faced many obstacles and served on the front lines in a battle to provide hope and opportunity to their children.The result of these and other challenges has had a clear impact. Without a dependable public education system, Newark parents are leaving our city’s school district…
I know the research says there are millions of neural connections forming per second in a newborn’s brain. I know they sleep so much because they are learning so much and are exhausted from it. Still. Until you get that eye contact, that smile, that squeal in response to something you said, it can be lonely and deeply unsatisfying to provide rich linguistic input for your newborn baby. During the day I’m great at connecting, talking, and interacting with Bilingual Baby 2, and I know she hears me read books to her big sister. But I’m not the mom that…