Wed.Jun 26, 2024

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How Schools Can Better Support Military Children and Families

ED Surge

While summer is the busiest time of year for military families to transition to their next duty station, throughout the school year, they move from state to state, and sometimes even across the world. Even after 16 years of being married to the military, my family learned that my husband would be moving in an unaccompanied permanent change of station for a year overseas.

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In Conversation with 2024 National Teacher of the Year, Missy Testerman

Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

Meet the Tennessee educator ensuring a sense of belonging in her classroom and supporting newcomer immigrant students and their families in her rural Appalachian community

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Washington lawmakers keep local fund that boosts child care teacher pay

The Hechinger Report

What happened: The D.C. Council maintained funding for the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund, the nation’s first publicly funded program intended to raise the pay of child care workers in the district and provide them with free or low-cost health insurance. The back story : In the face of a $700 million budget shortfall, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser proposed cutting the $87 million program to replenish the city’s diminished reserve fund.

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Join Us for TCRWP Office Hours with Lucy Calkins

Heinemann Blog

The popular Office Hours webinar series from Lucy Calkins and the TCRWP will resume on February 6th, 4:00–5:00 PM (ET). In these interactive webinars, which will occur on the first Thursday of the month from 4:00–5:00 pm (Eastern Time), Lucy and her TCRWP colleagues will respond to questions you pose live.

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Early Homo sapiens Facilitated the Establishment of Bonelli's Eagle in the Mediterranean 50,000 Years Ago

Anthropology.net

A groundbreaking study 1 led by the University of Granada (UGR) uncovers how early Homo sapiens influenced the establishment of Bonelli's eagles in the Mediterranean. This research highlights the complex interplay between human activity and avian competition, revealing that while early human presence facilitated Bonelli's eagles' establishment, modern human activities now threaten their survival.

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New Icelandic resources from Time for Geography - coming soon

Living Geography

The Time for Geography folks have been spending some time in Iceland and the results of their efforts will appear soon on their website. This was supported by Rayburn Tours, who I work for as a field tutor. It's a new resource on the volcanic island of Heimaey (home island) - part of the Westmann Islands. A taster video has now been added. To go along with the video, and explain the story, there's also a special episode of the GA's GeogPod podcast.

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Join us for the first paper of our Summer Seminar Series

Women's History Network

One week to go until we kick off our Summer Seminar Series with a fantastic paper from Dr Emily Rees Koerner entitled ‘Transnational Collective Action by Women in Engineering and Applied Science in the 1960s and 70s’ To sign up for the seminar please visit the following paper: sign up here We hope to see as […]

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