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Elmwood School: Where Girls Rise with Confidence, Curiosity and Global Vision

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Alongside the Prefect system, Elmwoods student-led councils offer focused leadership experiences in areas like academics, arts, athletics, and service. Elmwood encourages students to create and lead clubs that reflect their passionswhether thats robotics, creative writing, or cultural heritage. But its not all theory.

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Meet The Newest Liberal Art: Coding

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When coding shows up in the curriculum of a liberal arts program, its primary purpose is usually pretty obvious: help students get hired. Instead, coding is integrated to explore where it fits in “the broader idea of the liberal arts in the traditional Greek sense,” Anderson explains. In other words, coding isn’t just tacked on.

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Why Every Student Deserves a Robust Arts Education

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Arts education belongs in every student’s curriculum — and not just because the arts can improve skills in other content areas. As an instrumental music teacher, I am used to advocating that the arts are essential to all students even though they may not be classified as a core subject. Kennedy’s support for the arts in America.

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Virtual art meets language learning: A tech-enhanced ESL experience

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Virtual museum visits extend this magic even further, granting students access to the worlds cultural treasures. From their desks, they can encounter masterpieces from diverse time periods and traditions, helping them appreciate art as a universal language and a reflection of the human experience.

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Madison Metropolitan School District Selects Open Up Resources And Kiddom To Provide K-5 English Language Arts Blended Learning Program

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MADISON, WI – Today, Open Up Resources and Kiddom announced Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD ) has selected its top-rated EL Education K-5 Education Language Arts (ELA) curriculum for its 31 elementary schools in support of the district’s efforts to prioritize early literacy and beyond. ABOUT OPEN UP RESOURCES. ABOUT KIDDOM.

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Art Saved My Life When I Was a Student. Now, It's Helping My Multilingual Learners.

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Yet, in the art room, where images are the universal language, his talent shines, allowing his classmates to see his strengths, not just his struggles. The arts give students opportunities to express themselves, their ideas and their feelings in creative ways. In addition, I was placed in an art class.

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How 5 educators use digital tools in the classroom

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Rita Mortenson, the educational technology coach for Verona Area High School in Wisconsin, uses Google Arts and Culture. Google Arts and Culture offers over 1,600 experiments and counting. In addition to the extensive collection of artworks and cultural artifacts, it offers some pretty cool immersive experiences.

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