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CP Photo: Jared Wickerham Delancey Walton The COVID-19 pandemic upended education for Pittsburgh youth in ways the community is still working to recognize. But while some point to the COVID-19 pandemic as the primary culprit for the district’s challenges, education activists and residents say they’ve seen an educational crisis brewing in Pittsbu...

Reply Learners join in a community workshop on tech tools in Southeastern Pennsylvania. (Chester County Intermediate Unit) DOWNINGTOWN, PA — A ten-day festival of learning returns after a challenging academic year, as Chester Countys Intermediate Unit brings drones, coding, farming, and STEAM events to help "remake learning" in May. In partnership with the PA SEED Ecosystem, southeastern Pennsylvania will host more than 30 events during this learning festival between May 6-16, 2021. These e...

Carnegie Mellon Universitys Entertainment Technology Center has a tradition of innovation. That culture fosters networks and projects that enrich the region’s K-12 community. The ETC curriculum for its masters degree of entertainment technology is grounded on project courses. Students work in small teams to produce games and technology-based projects often in collaboration with a client, which is sometimes a local school district. After 15 weeks, students move on to a new project. But those ...

More than 40 events scheduled as part of national festival Penn State and central Pennsylvania will host more than 40 events this spring in conjunction with the “Remake Learning Days Across America” festival of innovation. Image: Penn State Penn State, central Pennsylvania host Remake Learning events in April, May April 16, 2021 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State and central Pennsylvania will host more than 40 events this spring in conjunction with “Remake Learning Days Across America,�...

The Pittsburgh Pirates, Pirates Charities, PNC and The Grable Foundation are teaming up during the 2021 baseball season with the Allegheny Intermediate Unit, Intermediate Unit One, and Kidsburgh to recognize outstanding teachers from southwestern Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia. As in year’s past, teachers will have the opportunity to be

BEAVER — Knowledge is power, and a Beaver County group is hoping to use that power to make education more equitable.  The Quality Education Council of the Beaver County Partnership for Community and Economic Growth on Monday received $175,000 in grants from the Pennsylvania Department of Education and the Grable Foundation to continue the third phase of its Future of Education in Beaver County Public Schools Feasibility Study.  The third phase of the multi-year study will involve a team f...

Parents as Allies is finding and adapting strategies to better connect schools, teachers and families When schools shut down worldwide last spring, millions of parents had questions. In Pittsburgh, a telephone hotline for families lit up with calls — many from parents who had little communication with their children’s teachers and needed to know what was happening next. That hotline was a valuable solution to an immediate problem. But it pointed to a larger issue that’s been bubbling for ...

Remake Learning collaborates with leaders around the world during Learning Planet Festival In India, children as young as four are beginning to learn about sustainability and climate change through play. In Nigeria, early-career teachers are being mentored to bring innovative techniques to classrooms and learn to change the world. And in the Pittsburgh region, a series of “moonshot grants,” inspired by last year’s Tomorrow Grants, will soon offer $1.1 million to fund experimental ideas f...

amollenauer@altoonamirror.com Appalachia Intermediate Unit 8 has received a grant of $69,570 from the Grable Foundation of Pittsburgh. The funding, provided to the STEM Ecosystem, will go toward equipment, online resources and programs to enhance STEM-related programs for schools, public libraries and career and technical centers in Cambria, Somerset, Blair and Bedford counties. The grant is expected to impact unemployment rates in Pennsylvania by providing opportunities for students to gain ...

Gregg Behr calls for a statewide panel to rethink learning post-Covid While Covid has wreaked havoc on students and schools and education, it has also spurred innovation and new energy for change — like turning the Cathedral of Learning into a giant antenna for free Wi-Fi for at-home students. Gregg Behr, executive director of the Grable Foundation and co-chair of Remake Learning, thinks it’s time to consider establishing a statewide panel on learning innovation. “Across Pennsylvania, our...