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East Palo Alto teacher creates middle school tutoring program to tackle education gaps
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In 2020, Harriette Huang left behind an engineering and tech-related career to become a teacher in East Palo Alto’s Ravenswood District, where her goal was to minimize education gaps between Ravenswood schools and schools just outside the city. But she quickly realized that...
AAA Virtual High School Internship Projects
In May and June of 2024, the AAA hosted three interns through the Virtual High School Internship. Their main assignment was to choose a peer-reviewed paper in one of the AnthroSource journals, and along the way, they engaged in a variety of enriching activities:. Research Projects: They read scholarly research...
Navigator Schools employ innovative teaching techniques
Lea este artículo en español aquí. Navigator Schools, a network including Gilroy Prep, Hollister Prep, Watsonville Prep and Hayward Collegiate, use a student-led model of education as opposed to the typical teacher-led system. At Hollister Prep, which was founded in 2013, a classroom is very active, and...
Team goals: Wilson Prep’s 5 starters to play college hoops
Perhaps even more remarkable than Wilson Prep’s accomplishment of winning back-to-back state 1-A championships in basketball is that all six of its seniors are going to college. All five starters — Brandon Anderson, David Ellis, Ben Ferguson, Josh Hicks and Leslie Minter — have earned basketball scholarships, which may be unprecedented in Wilson County, while Khristian Woodard landed an academic […] The post Team goals: Wilson Prep’s 5 starters to play college hoops first appeared on Restoration NewsMedia.
Zum’s Prakash Accepts Innovator of the Year Award at STN EXPO
Reno, Nev. — With his family from India in attendance, Pallav Prakash accepted the 2024 School Transportation News Innovator of the Year award. Prakash, the director of electrification program management for Zum Services, was honored for the implementation of a 100-percent electric school bus operation with bidirectional charging at Oakland Unified School District.
The Oakland Ed Week in Review 7/6/24-7/12/24
We’re back with our roundup of education news from around The Town, the Bay Area, state, and nation for your weekend reading. This is a Dirk favorite and one of the last blogs he published for Great School Voices. Here’s what’s been going on:. Here in Oakland...
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