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 […]
Buying a guitar isn’t easy at all. You need to know what to look for in a guitar, like how it sounds or how it feels. Here are five things you should look for in a guitar: What kind of sound board does the guitar have? Nothing is more important, and nothing affects the sound […]
Minnesota is one of the few states where wolves still exist in the wild. The timber wolf, also known as the eastern gray wolf, lives in the northern part of the state. Wolves are so important to many Minnesotans that our professional basketball team is named the Timberwolves. Recent studies show that there are between […]
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 […]
The way that students have been taught has been linear for many years. The most common method is to introduce the topic, present the lecture, have a discussion or “question and answer” session, give an assignment, and finally an exam. This has worked for some students, but it is a very strict skeleton and it […]
I am really proud of my daddy. He is a Master Sergeant in the National Guard. He has been sent to Bosnia to serve our country. This is an interview I had with him. Q: Why are you in Bosnia? A: Our mission is to stabilize and consolidate the peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina and […]
Anna, a senior at Coon Rapids Learning Center, loves drawing cartoons. She also loves a good joke. Anna put these interests to good use while designing an informational poster on Buckthorn, an invasive plant species, for an environmental class. Her instructor thought the poster was quite effective: it was an original drawing, humorous, and addressed […]
March 30th, 2004: Students from RiverBend Academy headed towards Minnesota’s State Capitol with the standard trip slips in hand for a special day of awareness for suicide prevention and mental health accessibility. Buses left many of Mankato’s surrounding high schools at 7 a.m. to join other schools from all over Minnesota. RBA students were excited […]