The Call of Nature’s Wild: Spotlight on Children`s Filmmaker Jimmy Wilson

Guest article written by Gaya Lynn The fox. The bald eagle. The white tail deer. For most of us the possibility of seeing these splendid creatures up-close and personal may be hard if not impossible. We either live too far away from their natural habitats, or we simply do not have the time to go […]

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The Call of Nature’s Wild: Spotlight on Children`s Filmmaker Jimmy Wilson

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Guest article written by Gaya Lynn

The fox. The bald eagle. The white tail deer. For most of us the possibility of seeing these splendid creatures up-close and personal may be hard if not impossible. We either live too far away from their natural habitats, or we simply do not have the time to go into a forest and see them. Fortunately for us, children`s filmmaker and photographer Jimmy Wilson has created a set of nine children`s DVDs that allows these animals to appear on our television and computer screens.  
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Robyn Shulman
11 hours ago Blog, Education News & Events, Featured, K-12 Education, Social Good

Blended Learning: Building Student Strengths with the Right Mix

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Guest author, Mike Broderick, CEO of Turning Technologies

Blended learning is already a reality for millions of students. According to education surveys, about 70% of US school districts now offer blended learning programs. A Center for Digital Education study found that 73% of surveyed educators who use a blend of traditional techniques and learning technology during instruction noticed marked improvements in student engagement. The key to achieving engagement is to find the right mix of technology and traditional teaching techniques to ensure that technology is enhancing the learning process and not distracting from the primary focus, which is education.

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Robyn Shulman
1 day ago Blog, Distant Education, Education News & Events, Higher Education, K-12 Education

Kohl’s Cares Scholarship Program Accepting Nominations for Outstanding Young Volunteers

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Kohl’s is now accepting nominations for the 2015 Kohl’s Cares Scholarship Program. Kohl’s recognizes kids ages six to 18 who have made a positive impact on their community through volunteerism.

Nominations will be accepted now through March 13 at www.kohlskids.com.

Since 2001 Kohl’s has recognized more than 22,000 kids with more than $4.2 million in scholarship and prizes.
Kohl’s Department Stores (NYSE: KSS) Kohl’s Cares® Scholarship Program today announced it will award nearly $400,000 in scholarships and prizes to more than 2,500 students who have made a positive impact on their communities. Nominations for kids ages six to 18 will be accepted January 30 – March 13 at kohlskids.com.

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Robyn Shulman
26 days ago Blog, Education News & Events, Featured, K-12 Education

Take Me To The River Education Initiative Launched with Berklee City Music

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Director/Producer Martin Shore joins forces with Berklee City Music to develop Take Me To The River Education Initiative, a program based on his historic feature documentary that explores the influence of cross-generational, inter-racial and cross-gender collaboration relating to a unique Memphis-based music project.

Lifelong musician and Grammy-nominated Director/Producer Martin Shore announces a historic partnership with non-profit organization Berklee City Music®. The two have developed a music education initiative based on Shore’s film Take Me To The River, which explores the inter-racial musical influence of Memphis in the face of pervasive discrimination and segregation during the Civil Rights Movement, and the cross-generational and cross-gender collaboration exhibited in a new music project documented in the film.

Released in February in celebration of Black History Month and beyond, the Initiative brings standards-based instruction materials centered around the film and its music to educations nationwide free of charge.

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Robyn Shulman
28 days ago Blog, Education News & Events, Featured, Social Good

Child Life Professionals Help Children to Cope with Trauma in an Expanding Number of Settings

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By Belinda Hammond
Faculty Member, School of Education at American Public University

Child life specialists traditionally work in hospitals, but the field has grown to include support for children in a variety of settings. Child life specialists also provide support for traumatic events through the coordination of programs offered through non-profit agencies and through some chapters of the American Red Cross.

Child Life Council defines child life specialists as “trained professionals with expertise in helping children and their families overcome life’s most challenging events. These professionals are further described as being “armed with a strong background in child development and family systems, promoting effective coping through play, preparation, education, and self-expression activities. Child life specialists provide emotional support for families, and encourage optimum development of children facing a broad range of challenging experiences, particularly those related to healthcare and hospitalization. Because they understand that a child’s wellbeing depends on the support of the family, child life specialists provide information, support and guidance to parents, siblings, and other family members. They also play a vital role in educating caregivers, administrators, and the general public about the needs of children under stress.”

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Robyn Shulman
29 days ago Blog, Education News & Events, Featured, Food & Health, Higher Education, K-12 Education

Ron Clark Academy-New Innovative Education Facility Live

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Last night, I watched the movie about Ron Clark’s beginning life as an educator. It is amazing to see his roots and where he is today-including the thousands of lives he has changed and touched.

This world-class institute, adorned by two-story dragon, grand hall, video screen walls and one-of-a-kind environment, will train more than 4,000 educators a year in new revolutionary teaching styles-be sure to watch more here: http://www.11alive.com/story/news/education/2015/01/14/ron-clark-academy-education-training/21775733/

Since opening the doors at the Ron Clark Academy in 2007, more than 23,000 educators from 42 states and 22 countries around the world have visited the institution to learn how to replicate the school’s style, philosophy and success in their own classrooms.  Now, thousands more will be able to do so each year in a state-of-the-art training facility like no other on earth. The Ron Clark Academy Educator Training Facility opens its doors this week after a capital campaign that helped the institution raise $4.9 million for a multi-purpose facility that will allow more than 40,000 educators in the next decade to take part in observing classes, interactive lessons and discovering their own new methods that will bring revitalized education approaches to classrooms around the world.

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Robyn Shulman
1 month ago Blog, Education News & Events, Featured, Higher Education

Efforts to Make School Counselors Optional Won’t Help Student Outcomes

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By Dr. Kimberlee Ratliff
Program Director, M.Ed. School Counseling at American Public University

As a counselor educator, I work to prepare future professional school counselors who have big plans to make a difference in the lives of children. You can imagine my surprise when I heard about Ohio State School Board’s decision to eliminate a rule requiring that schools have at least five student support personnel for every 1,000 students. More surprising than the rule change was that school counselors were listed as one of eight positions that administrators and districts had to choose from in the first place. The other positions on the list were just as surprising: school nurses, library media specialists, elementary art teachers, music or physical education teachers, social workers, and visiting teachers. (Candisky, 2014).

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Robyn Shulman
2 months ago Blog, Education News & Events, Featured, Higher Education, K-12 Education

Kindergarten Readiness: A Challenge

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Written by Joseph Gulino

A child’s readiness for formal education should not be determined solely by a calendar date and a simple skills test.

“I just try to pull them through!” said the kindergarten teacher when I observed that six of the children in her class of 21 did not seem ready for kindergarten. It was December 1999, I was new to the school, and I was concerned about some behaviors the kindergartners were exhibiting, such as inability to focus or sit still for more than a few minutes, lack of knowledge of letters and numbers, and—most of all—the desire to play rather than learn. (more…)

Robyn Shulman
2 months ago 4 Comments Blog, Early Childhood, Education News & Events, K-12 Education
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