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  • ‘Somebody cares': How schools are helping with student well-being

    March 24, 2021 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Kennesaw, Georgia

    To combat the mental health impacts of pandemic-era remote and hybrid learning, Palmer Middle School in Georgia established a grief-support group, a "stress busters" group, a book club, and a series of virtual lunch sessions with games and music to help students make connections and learn coping skills. More than 90% of students reported decreased stress levels after participating in the stress busters program, and their school attendance records also improved.

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  • Meet the Black Mambas, South Africa's all-female anti-poaching unit

    March 23, 2021 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: South Africa

    The Black Mambas are an all-female anti-poaching and ranger unit based in South Africa’s Balule Nature Reserve. They patrol on foot and by vehicle to remove bushmeat snares and look for evidence of illegal poaching activities. They also run the Bush Babies Environmental Education Programme, which teaches local school children about wildlife and conservation. The group combines anti-poaching enforcement with efforts to ensure local communities have food security and understand the economic and employment benefits of tourism as a way to protect wildlife. The Mambas are seen as role models within the community.

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  • Georgia Daze Strives to Increase Black Student Applicants

    March 22, 2021 |

    Grady Newsource |

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    Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

    Georgia Daze is a student-led organization at the University of Georgia actively working to increase the Black student population on campus by focusing efforts on Black student applicants. Through biannual recruitment weekends, affirming Black culture on campus, and personal relationships, the organization has been able to increase the number of Black student applicants who commit to UGA.

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  • The equalizers

    March 19, 2021 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica

    Costa Rica’s Ministry of Public Education quickly pivoted when COVID-19 led to school closures by training teachers to teach online, providing email addresses, and giving families autonomous learning guides. The Ministry also digitized its enrollment data so that it could track and stay connected with students, while also ensuring that all families had the food and nutrition they needed while children were not able to attend school in person.

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  • Los que empatan

    March 19, 2021 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica

    El impacto negativo de la enorme pérdida de horas lectivas para los niños y jóvenes de Costa Rica ha sido reducido por las acciones proactivas de docentes, directores, y algunas autoridades a nivel nacional.

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  • Pricey textbooks holding Fresno college students back. Could this fix the problem?

    March 19, 2021 |

    The Fresno Bee |

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    Response Location: United States, Reedley, California

    For many college students, the cost of a textbook is often cost-prohibitive and instructors are looking at ways to address that. At Reedley College in California, instructors are curating their own teaching content through the use of open educational resources, which "are openly licensed content, freely available online to be reused, adapted, redistributed, or changed without permission from the creator." This "Zero textbook cost course" approach has been used in 23 colleges in the state, and showed increases in students' grades.

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  • Mississauga company reduces electronic waste & offers computers to those who can't afford them

    March 18, 2021 |

    The Pointer |

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    Response Location: Canada, Mississauga, Ontario

    Older electronics are being refurbished and redistributed to those in need by Renewed Computer Technology. The federally funded, Canadian nonprofit collected 13,500 computers and laptops last year for schools, libraries, and charities. RCT also provides steeply discounted electronics for economically disadvantaged families in addition to affordable high-speed internet access.

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  • An Illinois district proved programs for gifted students can be diverse

    March 16, 2021 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    U-46, Chicago's second-largest school district faced a legal suit in 2005 for discrimination of Hispanic students in its gifted programs and is now setting an example for how programs can be upended for good. By 2018 U-46's gifted program consisted of 48% Hispanic students, a better representation of a 57% Hispanic district. The changes implemented by the district included addressing systemic issues by not relying on teacher recommendations and instead testing all third and sixth graders, expanding the number of seats for gifted students. The district also has teachers undergo antiracism training and more.

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  • As teacher morale fell, two Alabama districts found a way to ease workload

    March 16, 2021 |

    AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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    Response Location: United States, Alabama

    During the coronavirus pandemic, schools in Alabama were asked to provide both in-person and remote options for learning. Two districts segmented their teaching workforce so that teachers either taught remote students or in-person students, not both. Baldwin and Talladega counties report that teachers, while still worn out from the stress and demands of the pandemic, describe higher morale, being less burnt out, and feel more positive about the year’s learning model than other teachers. Teachers also report that their students learned better than if they were juggling both modes of instruction.

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  • The tutoring revolution: How it could transform education

    March 16, 2021 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States

    Research shows tutoring can increase learning. Two years into the pandemic, the exact rates of learning loss due to pandemic learning are still unknown, but its effects have been documented. Researchers, teachers, and academics are advocating for “high dosage,” or “high impact," tutoring (a form of tutoring where one tutor is paired with one student, or a group of small students) at a national level. Students at Chicago public schools who got high impact tutoring “two to three times as much as their peers.”

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