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A ‘summer camp’ for teachers fills a gap in environmental education

The Hechinger Report

Ali McMillan, an instructional coach and intervention specialist at West Feliciana Middle School in West Feliciana Parish, is one of 20 educators participating in the program. McMillan, who teaches in a rural southeast part of the state, said the geography of her school is one reason she applied to the fellowship.

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Middle school science teachers often have shaky scientific knowledge

The Hechinger Report

“If you pay teachers what we pay them, and you put the entire burden of society on their shoulders, then yes, you’re going to have a teacher shortage,” said Bertha Vazquez, a science teacher at George Washington Carver Middle School in Miami, Florida. Related: Helping science teachers tackle misinformation and controversial topics.

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Nurturing Global Citizenship Through ‘British Values’ (Book Release: Developing Quality PSHE in Secondary Schools and Colleges)

Geogramblings

The COVID-19 pandemic perfectly demonstrated the former through its means of spreading across the globe, and the latter as many of us shifted to remote schooling, working and socialising. Their personal bubble is surrounded by the local scale, then the regional and national scales and finally being encompassed by the global scale. .*