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Teaching after Terror - Las Vegas
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Oct 02, 2017 09:23 AM
by Nancy McTygue, Executive Director
I can’t believe I’m writing another one of these posts in response to a horrific terrorist attack. In 2015, I wrote two – one in response to the massacre ...
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Teaching about California's Water Supply
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Sep 26, 2017 04:41 PM
by Shelley Brooks
The recent Current Context issue on the Challenge of California’s Water Supply provides students with the opportunity to think about the importance of California’s water ...
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Watching Whales and Thinking about Environmental Literacy in HSS
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Sep 18, 2017 09:57 AM
by Shelley Brooks
We couldn’t have asked for a better setting for our environmental literacy retreat. Thanks to Ten Strands and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, regional site directors from ...
Teaching with Fire
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Sep 01, 2017 01:47 PM
This week, students across California may very well be experiencing first-hand the effects of fire, or at least smoke, in their local environment. From the North to the South, and all through the ...
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We Can Do Better: Lessons from Charlottesville
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Aug 14, 2017 01:41 PM
by Nancy McTygue, Executive Director
The images are horrifying – angry white men with torches lit marching through a southern town on a summer night. Bodies flying in the air after being ...
