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Exemplary Efforts - Rural Schools Collaborative
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Good things happen at the intersection of place based education, philanthropy, and collaboration. Missouri's Placeworks program, the brainchild of artist-educator, Kate Baird, is a wonderful example of this synergy. Ozarks teachers face a time crunch. With budgets threatened, programs like art and music are increasingly being squeezed out of the school week. Meanwhile, teachers look for creative ways to reach students with the lessons they are expected to deliver. With teacher input, Placeworks creates a...
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GLADE Project « Rural Schools Partnership
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Archive for the ‘GLADE Project’ Category. Laquo; Older Entries. Students, educator share stories of 2015 GLADE camp. One of the more exciting student-immersion programs in the Ozarks is GLADE, sponsored by the Greater Ozarks Audubon Society, which takes ecology-minded high schoolers out into the hills of Taney County to work, study and play for a week each summer. Background from the story, which you can listen to online here:. Program at Bull Shoals Field Station. Posted July 20th, 2015 in GLADE Project.
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