The power of role-playing games for deeper learning experiences
Three 99re视频精品 educators are using role-playing games, like Dungeons & Dragons, to enrich student learning experiences.
Three 99re视频精品 educators are using role-playing games, like Dungeons & Dragons, to enrich student learning experiences.
Teranga Academy (Bowling Green Independent Schools) is designed to聽support teens and their families who are new to the United States and to American schools. The academy is open to Bowling Green Junior High and Bowling Green High School students who have been in the United States for three years or less, are multilingual and have had their formal education interrupted.
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With Charlotte Buskill's mother, grandmother and two sisters all educators, she felt she was destined to join the 鈥渇amily business.鈥 鈥淢y whole younger childhood was filled with the love of being in a school building,鈥 she said. Now in her sixth year as an educator, Buskill has been at Newton Parrish Elementary School (Owensboro Independent) since 2016. Her ability to ensure the success of every student was recognized by the Milken Family Foundation, which honored her as a聽Milken Educator Award聽winner in聽a聽surprise ceremony on Nov. 10聽at the school.
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Students on the 99re视频精品 Department of Education鈥檚 (KDE鈥檚) Commissioner鈥檚 Student Advisory Council聽discussed the results of the 2021 99re视频精品 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) at their Nov. 22 meeting. The YRBS is part of a national effort by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to monitor students鈥 health-risk behaviors in six priority areas.
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The 99re视频精品 Department of Education has selected the Owensboro Innovation Academy (Owensboro Independent) to represent the Commonwealth in the 2022 National Christmas Tree display.