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  • How a diverse school district is using a strategy usually reserved for ‘gifted' students to boost everyone

    Joy Resmovits

    January 18, 2021 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In order to mitigate the “pandemic slide,” a term that describes the educational loss that happened during the pandemic, Highline Public Schools implemented a strategy known as “acceleration.” The strategy is often reserved for gifted students and involves moving students along to more advanced lessons. “The strategies that we often reserved for ‘gifted and talented kids’ are great strategies that work for every student.” Data shows the strategy worked.

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  • Seattle's tuition-free community college program comes to the rescue during the pandemic

    Joy Resmovits

    November 22, 2020 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In Seattle, voters approved to fund a program that gives public high-school graduates two years of free community college. Then, the pandemic hit the year it was supposed to begin. Educators and school officials quickly pivoted to accommodate students. Flexibility, student surveys, and tech-upgrades, are some of the things they did, and it worked. The program surpassed its enrollment projections, with 846 enrolled students. “That represents about one-third of Seattle Public Schools’ class of 2020. And 62% are students of color.”

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  • Life on the farm: How one Washington school district is restoring in-person learning

    Joy Resmovits

    November 14, 2020 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Langley, Washington

    Students in South Whidbey Island, off the west coast of Washington State, are getting to know first-hand the process of farm to table meals. During "farm school" kids get a break from e-learning and help tend to the local community garden, where they also get their meals from.

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