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Video Higher Ground Learning Urban Arts Program (current.com)Higher Ground Learning provides an alternative method of learning and incorporated urban culture into their curriculum through their Urban Arts Program.
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Award-winning administrator (www.northernlife.ca)Robert Bentzen, manager of the eDome at Cambrian College, was recently honoured with the Ontario College Administrative Staff Association’s (OCASA) volunteer recognition award.
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play kitchens (www.play-kitchens.org)This toy offers learning opportunities for your little child such as vocabulary building and basic mathematics learning.
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4.Gardening improves children's wellbeing and development (www.edexec.co.uk)
The Royal Horticultural Society has urged school gardening to be high on the education agenda and recognised as a key teaching tool.New research by the RHS Gardening in Schools - A vital tool for children's learning shows for the first time the enormous impact gardening plays in a child's wellbeing, learning and development
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5.Grade 3 too early to teach sex ed - Leo Bisson (www.northernlife.ca)
In Grade 3, students will learn about differences, visible and invisible, between people, like identifying sexual orientation. Teachers will be able to address issues like same-sex partners. This is not something little boys and girls need to know from Grade 1 to 3
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6.Comment about principal gets student cut out of yearbooks | (news.nationalpost.com)
A Vancouver Island board of education has decided to reprint a middle-school’s yearbooks after a teacher took scissors to 150 copies last week and clipped out the photo of a Grade 10 student because of comments he made about the school principal.
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7.Parents hope ideas save school (www.thesudburystar.com)
Parent Sara McIlraith hopes her idea to turn Long Lake Public School into an outdoor education hub will save the small school from closure."Outdoor education is, I think, lacking in a lot of schools," McIlraith told the crowd of about 100 at a public meeting at Lockerby Composite School on Tuesday night.
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Gyantonic.com is a Knowledge network (www.gyantonic.com)Employers say they are impressed by job candidates who have excellent communication skills, good grooming habits, and relevant work experience.
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9.Laurentain University grads can be part of revolutionary change: Dallaire (www.northernlife.ca)
The world is changing very fast, according to retired Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire and Dominic Giroux Laurentian University president.
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10.Core catalyst: School of Architecture (www.thesudburystar.com)
Organizers for the Northern Ontario School of Architecture expect to take a significant step forward in the coming weeks.The project team received bids from architects to identify and renovate a large downtown building to temporarily house the school when it takes its first students in September 2011.
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11.College slapped with $20-M lawsuit - (www.thesudburystar.com)
A group of 11 former Cambrian College health information management program students are suing the college and three of its administrators for $20 million.
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HOWTO teach kids to be makers (www.boingboing.net)Gever Tulley outlines his simple yet radical pedagogical method in this short video. Gever's book 50 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do is worth a high school education (or more) by itself."
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Students celebrate city's history (www.thesudburystar.com)The Heritage Fair, a showcase of our community and country's rich heritage, gives the youth of today an opportunity to research, discover and creatively capture history and bring the past to life," said Lona Dabous, chair of the Sudbury Regional Heritage Fair Organizing Committee.More than 2,200 elementary and secondary school students will participate in the fair.
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14.Can't lose talent, former PM says (www.thesudburystar.com)
Prime Minister Paul Martin. "We can not waste the talent of any more young Canadians -- First Nations, Metis or anyone. But that's what we are in the process of doing."
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15.New Money for Biology Research at Algoma University- Updated (www.soonews.ca)
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) announced Friday that it will be awarding $100,000 towards research initiatives in the growing Biology department at Algoma University.
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Teacher Tracks: 5 Awesome Ideas For Using Google Search Story Creator In The Classroom (www.teachertracks.com)Search Stories are REALLY easy to create and a GREAT assessment tool for kids! Here are 5 awesome ideas for using them in the classroom:
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17.Down to Earth studies (www.thesudburystar.com)
Grade 12 student Reid Bentzen realizes we live in a changing world when it comes to energy production and conservation."Times are changing and we have to change with the times. We can't just keep doing the same thing over and over again," said the Lasalle Secondary School student.
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18.Sudbury Students celebrate Earth Day (www.northernlife.ca)
Schools within the Rainbow District School Board will celebrate Earth Day with a number of activities this week, from community clean ups, to litterless lunches, visits to green facilities and participation in the community Green Jobs Fair.
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19.Blind River quiz masters take top spots (www.elliotlakestandard.ca)
WC Eaket Secondary School reached for and secured top place finishes at a recent Reach for the Top contest.The Blind River high school sent a junior team of five students and two senior teams with four players each to a quiz competition held at Manitouwadge High School, in Manitouwadge.
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Forvo: the pronunciation guide. All the words in the world pronounced by native speakers (www.forvo.com)Add words, Pronounce, Listen & Learn. Forvo is the largest pronunciation guide in the world.
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21.NYC to stop having teachers accused of misconduct spend their days in 'rubber rooms' - Yahoo! Canada News (ca.news.yahoo.com)
About 650 educators, more than 500 of them teachers, are in the rubber rooms earning some $30 million in salaries, officials said.
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The World's Free Virtual School: an interview with Salman Khan (www.worldchanging.com)Salman Khan is the man behind Khan Academy, a 2009 Tech Award winning site with 12+ million views and 1200+ 10-minute "videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, chemistry, biology and finance"
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Huntington University (www.huntingtonu.ca)located in the City of Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, is a liberal arts university specializing in communication studies, fine arts, gerontology, religious studies, theology and ethics
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Spirit of World Drumming Book+DVD (www.spiritofworlddrumming.com)A spirited global tour of drum circle instruction for the classroom and community; my book includes a comprehensive DVD showcasing school and community drum circles
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25.Israeli Apartheid Week mocks healthy debate - Column by Mark Mancini - (www.thesudburystar.com)
Universities are places of higher learning. Rightly so, they are places where students are asked to learn to think critically, to not accept the status quo and to ultimately learn to analyze and develop skills for logical reasoning.
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