There were 25 students from Carleton College helping out the teachers clean up for the first day of school. These are volunteer students from Carleton College who took time to help the teachers decorate the school. The volunteers helped out at New Spirit Primary on the 4th and 5th of September. They were at the […]
On Thursday September 30, 2004, a tragedy struck Lakes Area Charter School. Six students were on their way home from school and had a one car roll-over accident. Erica Johns, 13, died at the site. At the time this was rap was written Michael “Micky” Kaplor, 16, was in Hennepin County Medical Center in critical […]
On September 13th, 2004, twenty-five students and three staff members from Jennings Experiential High School left on their nine-day trip to South Dakota. They camped out everyday on ranches, farms, state parks, and at Pine Ridge Reservation. Students learned a lot about the Lakota culture, pioneer history, and U.S. relations with both groups. Some of […]
Achieve Language Academy moved into a new building at the start of the school year. Achieve Language Academy dedicated its building expansion and renovation on Friday, September 24 [2004] at the school, 2169 Stillwater Avenue. Full to the brim with 325 students, this innovative open expansion provides the needed additional space for this multicultural Preschool […]
Editor’s note: ARTech went to a leadership workshop two years in a row. After both trips, the students were asked to write essays describing their experience. These two quotes are from last year’s essays. “In the whole experience, I learned so many new things. I also relearned what I already knew but in different views. […]
This is the second year Liberty High Charter will be participating in taking study tours to parts of the U.S. and Europe. On each trip, students do an extreme amount of walking to experience and see everything they can while they are there. They eat at some of the best restaurants around and go shopping […]
The 6/7 teachers of Schoolcraft Learning Community traveled to Seattle, Washington, to present a Master Class about how to introduce an expedition by using Building Background Knowledge (BBK) workshops with students. The reason Marilyn, Jim, and Sara were chosen to be presenters is because in the fall of 2003, the 6/7 crews did a Holocaust […]
Learning to be a leader takes practice. It is necessary, then, to provide young people with opportunities to lead. Barriers to efficient communication must be toppled and foundations of mutual trust and respect need to be built. April 28th thru the 30th [2004], ARTech will be taking a group of 15-20 high school students to […]
Recently, Avalon School in St. Paul had Service Learning Week. For five days, students had no classes, and instead did group projects that were focused on service learning. Some students did things such as; volunteered at the Jeremiah Project in downtown Minneapolis, helped build a house for Habitat for Humanity, cleaned up the Mississippi River, […]
This is an interview with Linda, the Physical Education teacher and coach of the “Streaks” jump rope club at Schoolcraft Learning Community. Linda is striving to get everyone at Schoolcraft to pursue fitness goals and activities. Q: Why do you want everyone to do a fitness program? A: I would love to see every Schoolcraft […]