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INSIGHTS Just In ...
May 2013
In this issue...
Saluting teachers
TFIM Conference caps program year
Leadership Retreat
Great Idea Grants
Sense of Place Learning
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Our special thanks:
National Teacher Appreciation Day

The Consortium offers special thanks today to classroom educators. 

 

As the late teacher, psychologist and child advocate Haim Ginnott once said, "We expect teachers to reach unattainable goals with inadequate resources. The miracle is this: they often do."

 

We couldn't have said it better. Please know that we deeply appreciate your work, not just on this day reserved nationally for doing so, but each and every day of the year.

 

TFIM workshop
Theater improvisation workshop

Nearly 350 students from 27 schools converged for TFIM's annual Student Leadership Conference 
 
Some 350 youth capped a year of discovery when they gathered in April at the annual Student Leadership Conference for participants in The Consortium's career exploration program, The Future Is Mine (TFIM). To learn more, click here.
Will Richardson


Consortium plans June retreat

 

The Consortium will cap a year of work aimed at engaging students in shaping school cultures and their own educational journeys with a June retreat featuring Will Richardson, educator, author and founder of Connective Learning, LLC. To learn more, click here.
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Classrooms come alive with
Great Idea Grants 

 

From historical documentaries to robotic theater productions, classroom projects blossomed throughout the spring thanks to Great Idea Grants. The historical documentaries brought Belle Vernon Area School District's Bellmar Middle School the "School of the Year" award in Pennsylvania's National History Day competition. The award stemmed from a slate of individual student and team honors including state championships for webpage and video projects. To learn more, click here. 

 

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Sense of Place Learning, one of eight community partners collaborating with The Consortium and Clairton City School District in The CASTLE (Clairton's After-School Teaching & Learning Experience) is featured in an interview on Just Start, a blog that author and educator Allison Zmuda devotes to ideas about teaching and learning. To read the interview, click here.

 

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