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Summer of Summer Institutes
It’s a hot summer for service-learning here at KIDS. Last year, we held two incredibly successful four-day service-learning institutes for educators. This year, there are four. Last week, education...
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Service-Learning Summer Institutes: Choose Your Location
KIDS Consortium’s flagship professional development opportunity for K-12 educators is the four-day Service-Learning Summer Institute. Last year, we held four incredibly successful four-day Summer...
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Youth as Citizen Scientists: STEM and Civic Engagement
I continue to be energized by the broad base of educators using STEM topics to engage youth in learning about their world, their community and themselves. At KIDS, we are working with teachers to apply...
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Catching Up on the Civic Mission of School with the Guardian of Democracy:...
Guardian of Democracy. Doesn’t that sound as if it could be a movie? Who would you place in the lead roles of such a film? Who would direct it? Well, never mind. It is not a movie. It is a report on...
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Collaboration: 21st Century Skills for 21st Century Students and Communities
My first year of teaching—Day 1: I had my lesson plan all printed neatly in my plan book. It called for the 7thgraders to work in groups for 20 minutes—you see, I learned in one of my courses that...
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Seven Misconceptions about How Students Learn: Game-Changers for Authentic...
Just read another article that hit home for me. “Seven Misconceptions about How Students Learn,” written by Valerie Strauss at the Washington Post. It discusses the misconceptions that many people...
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