, isLeadArt: , itemUrl: , itemCaption: , isStory: true, linkUrl: , description: }, id: 185339 }) }) Facing a classroom full of empty desks, and staring into a computer in front of her, Amanda Woods reminded the Pottstown seventh graders on the other side of the screen that their poetry assignment was due the next day. “Two minutes I have left with you please don’t leave,” she said. Woods implored her students to email her their drafts. “I love to read what you guys write,” she said.
Coronavirus Coverage The classroom at Pottstown Middle School was quiet. Most of Woods’ students don’t speak aloud during class, instead typing questions in the chat. Keeping them engaged is a struggle: On a recent Thursday, one student logged out after 30 seconds. Another joined 26 minutes after class began.
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The discovery of one of five missing panels in famed American modernist Jacob Lawrence’s painting depicting Shays’ Rebellion located on an apartment wall in New York City’s Upper West Side led to the discovery of yet another missing panel. (Photo courtesy of the Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society, New York; via Peabody Essex Museum)
ACROSS AMERICA A good treasure hunt is what we need. But like everything else in this past year of the pandemic a) it s been a year? b) it s only been a year? or c) what is time? this one has a few twists. It started with the curiosity piqued in a visitor admiring a piece of art by renowned American modernist Jacob Lawrence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Calls to prioritized vaccinations for educational staff are growing louder as many school districts prepare to bring students back into classrooms five days a week. (Shutterstock)
CHESTER COUNTY, PA A countywide council along with individual school boards in Chester and Delaware counties are calling on state officials to put school staff further up in the vaccine line, as districts prepare to bring students back to class every day.
The Chester County School Board Legislative Council is a collaborative group comprised of membership from all Chester County school districts, coordinated through the county s Intermediate Unit. In a unanimous vote Wednesday night, the council approved a resolution asking Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam, and the PA Department of Health to prioritize the health and safety of ALL educational staff by moving educators from vaccine Phase 1B to Phase 1A.
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