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Eastland-Fairfield: Teaching Professions students earn top honors in national contest Thanks to the Teaching Professions satellite program through Eastland-Fairfield Career & Technical Schools, Cooper Solomon said he knows how he will set up his classrooms in the future. Solomon, a 2021 graduate whose home school is Gahanna Lincoln High School, finished first in the Educators Rising Moment category in the Educators Rising national competition held virtually in late June. The Teaching Profession...

Honoring a special group of soon-to-graduate seniors, Killeen ISD’s Career and Technical Education leaders distributed hundreds of purple cords in recognition of achievement above and beyond the expected. The Killeen ISD Career Center expected about 325 seniors to participate in the celebration recently at the Killeen Civic and Conference Center. In all, about 368 seniors are set to earn more than 500 industry level certifications this year in a wide array of career-focused programs. While...

Sam Knapp The Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) is honoring its top students for the 2020-21 academic year. Thirty-two students, two from each of the 16 colleges, were selected for the KCTCS All-Academic Team. Students were chosen based on a rigorous process that focuses on academic performance and community service. Selected from Somerset Community College (SCC) are Dalton Hays, Transfer Scholar and Sam Knapp, Workforce Scholar. Dalton Hays was selected as the SCC transfe...

Suzette Lowe With a motto of ‘Teaching skills for a lifetime,’ the Roane-Jackson Technical Center offers a wide variety of hands-on learning opportunities. Students from both Roane and Jackson counties join together to acquire skills and develop talents in areas such as auto mechanics, law and public safety, welding, education, carpentry and culinary arts. Those skills and talents were put on display at the West Virginia SkillsUSA competition on March 26 and 27. This state leadership and sk...

A New Mexico school sent all kids back in-person in one day. We followed a teacher to see how it went. Erin Richards, USA TODAY © Jack Gruber, USA TODAY West Mesa High School teacher Stephanie Davy teaches to an in-person Health class of 7 students along while the majority of students attend the class remotely online as students return to school at West Mesa High School in Albuquerque, NM for the first week of in-person learning since the school closure due to COVID-19. ALBUQ...

Teacher diversity remains challenge-filled priority for Portland Public Schools The school district, which has doubled the number of educators of color since 2016, is coming up with a plan based on findings of an Educators of Color study conducted with Bowdoin College. Share Portland Public Schools has doubled the number of educators of color employed in the district over the past five years, but the superintendent says much more work is needed to have the district’s workforce better mirror ...

LAS CRUCES - Gadsden Independent School District has longtime been focused on preparing high school students for future careers, but with online learning persisting for nearly a year, young student teachers have had to switch gears to adapt. Normally, students in the educational career pathway for their sophomore through senior years would be able to visit nearby schools and act as student teachers for the year. This year, students are still assigned to work with a class, but, now, they do ev...

Ben said that his family is doing the best they can, given the tragic circumstances. Ben and Karen were married more than 28 years ago, in September 1992. They have three children — Taralyn, 25, Timothy, 21, and Tavyn, 19. "Its the quiet times that become difficult … at night when I finally go to bed," Ben said. "I check my texts in the day or messenger or Facebook or Twitter, and its like I have my own personal Chicken Soup for the Soul book thats written about my wife." Ben, Taralyn,...

On Monday, February 22, Dr. Kate Marvel, Supervisor of Secondary Student Learning, provided Milford School District Board of Education information on the progress students were making in Career and Technical Education majors. Dr. Marvel explained that since most of these programs were normally provided with hands-on learning, the COVID-19 pandemic has required that the district make some adjustments. “In the spring, we will have 25 of our School of Agriscience members at the high school compe...

New Mexicos Karen Trujillo: A huge advocate for students and teachers Tracey Bryan “New Mexico just lost a huge advocate for kids,” said Michael Chavez, superintendent of Hatch Valley Public Schools. The enormity of that loss advanced like a black fog across Las Cruces and New Mexico, as news of the tragic death of Las Cruces Public Schools Superintendent Karen Trujillo spread across social media. Karen loved kids, and she loved teachers. She wanted both to realize their potential and to k...