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This School Nurse Explains How Her Work Goes Beyond ‘Band-Aids, Boo-Boos and Head Lice’

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We had 10 schools, and I was able to do more with staff, do bus driver physicals and those things, and be part of the administrative team for the district. Another example: During a recent year, we had over 9,000 elementary students who failed their vision screenings at school, who had nowhere to go. So I started doing more.

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100th Day of School — It’s about Learning

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It is particularly popular in elementary schools, often filled with fun and educational activities centered around the number 100. PE Physical activities during winter often become calisthenics or personal fitness, exercises that can be done indoors or in the gym. Have students do ten sets of ten different exercises (i.e.,

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Don’t Return to Your School’s Pre-Pandemic Schedule. Improve It Through Brain Science.

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Classes meet at different times throughout the week to add variety—Ian’s physics class Friday at 9:00 a.m. But students in elementary school experience some of the most important growth in relationship building, knowledge, skill development and sense of self. has a different feel than Wednesday’s at 1:40 p.m.

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Why I’m Integrating the World Cup Into My English Class, Despite My Disinterest in Sports

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I embarrassed myself early enough into the game to recognize I needed to do what I always did in elementary school gym class: fade into the background until no one noticed I was sitting on the bench. What might it mean for their writing to explore how current competitors are now on equal footing with their former colonizers?

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Benefits of Using Board Games in the Classroom

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I definitely liked the thrill of winning but equally so interacting with my friends while we played the games. I understand and believe in value of learning through board games, and have incorporated them into my classrooms – both elementary and higher education – throughout my decades long teaching career.

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Reimagining Education: A Call for Action

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As someone whose roots is in outdoor and experiential education, I believe a good learning experience engages the intellectual, physical, emotional, and social aspects of the learner. Schools tend to be separate from the community – often not physically but in its use of its resources. And we should value them all equally.

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The Concept of the Ruliad

Stephen Wolfram

It’s yet another surprising construct that’s arisen from our Physics Project. In the language of our Physics Project, it’s the ultimate limit of all rulial multiway systems. And here is a rulial multiway system made from hypergraph rewriting of the kind used in our Physics Project , using all rules with signature : &#10005.

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