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Video: Artfully Engaged Students
April 4, 2012 by
Howenstine High Magnet School students partnered with the Tucson Arts Brigade and the Barrio Centro Neighborhood Association to create the Barrio Centro Mural. The colorful mural portrays the neighborhood’s history and diverse culture.
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Educators Aren’t Just Welcoming Change, They’re Leading It
March 23, 2012 by
Educators in priority schools are taking the helm of local school reforms while changing the perception of their profession and association. Learn about the work of NEA members in Arizona, Georgia, Iowa, Maine and North Carolina.
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Building Academic Success One House at a Time
March 16, 2012 by
By pitching in to help their community address problems like lack of affordable housing, students at Howenstine Magnet High School are helping build their own academic success through service-learning in Tucson, Arizona.
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How Family Involvement is Helping in Utah
January 10, 2012 by
As family involvement at Glendale Middle School increases, student behavior is improving. The school has seen a 50 percent drop in referrals for both bullying and fighting, with tardies and discipline referrals down by 30 percent.
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Local Leaders Urge Community to Join High School Transformation Effort
December 7, 2011 by
Union, district, school and local government leaders gathered with NEA’s Priority Schools Campaign to kick off the KEYS survey at Howenstine High school in Tucson, AZ.
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Having Faith in the Students
December 6, 2011 by
Dedicated teachers and staff at Glendale Middle School in Utah show how hard work and a boundless belief in students can raise achievement in an environment where most of the students live in poverty and many have enormous challenges in their home lives to overcome.
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Raising Aspirations in Rural Maine
November 8, 2011 by
Doug Woodsum was a substitute at Carrabec High School in North Anson, Maine, before he was hired as a full-time English teacher three years ago. He knew it wouldn’t be an easy assignment, and a few of the students even…
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Solving the Parent Involvement Puzzle
September 1, 2011 by
Anne T. Henderson is a Senior Consultant with the Annenberg Institute for School Reform and based in Washington D.C., where her specialty is the relationship between families and schools. She tracks both research and effective practice on how engaging families…
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Extra, extra! Tus noticias al día
June 29, 2011 by
Belgica Diaz is the clerk at Sorangel Grocery Store, a popular bodega in Reading, Pennsylvania. When she bags her customers’ groceries, she always slips in a little something extra– the latest issue of the Reading Education Association Community Newsletter. “I…
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Union and Parents Join Forces to Improve School Conditions
May 20, 2011 by
Sitting between the more prominent cities of Philadelphia to the east and Pittsburgh to the west, Reading might seem like the city Pennsylvania forgot. But the once thriving railroad community is still one of the prime properties on the Monopoly…
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