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Tag: Brooks Elementary School

Keep learning, keep teaching – Part 3: Educators detail COVID-19 adjustments

April 19, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, SEED

Like every student-teacher across the United States, Chloe Burns is working through a situation she never could have anticipated. But that doesn’t mean she’s not making the most of a difficult road. “eLearning is definitely not something I expected to encounter during

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‘Keep talking’: Educators witness strength, advocacy at Social Justice Summer Camp

July 3, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

They were different women of different ages, sitting in different rooms, hearing different words on different subjects at different times. Yet their response – their natural, human reaction – was the same. The proverbial lumps in the throat, the moisture of not-quite-yet

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KNPE students lead fun, games at Brooks Elementary field day

November 22, 2017 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE, KNPE alumni eNewsletter

Cold winds blew across the Brooks Elementary School playground Halloween morning, but those chills couldn’t stop the fun of bowling soccer balls and poofy balls toward a 10-pin pumpkin or running relays around hay bales. Within the warmth of the building, an

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Physical Ed majors provide ‘structured recess’ programming for Brooks Elementary children

November 22, 2017 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE, KNPE alumni eNewsletter

Recess is fun and games at most elementary school students, but it’s not always without problems. For one, it’s often lightly supervised. And, says Zach Wahl-Alexander, professor of Physical Education, it’s likely parent-volunteers and not teachers who are in charge. Meanwhile, Wahl-Alexander

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