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King5
How can new technology benefit students and teachers? Steve Kerr talks video game activities.
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The Seattle Times

Tom Halverson, director of the UW Master's in Education Policy program, writes about why high schools need to provide students with a variety of unrestricted, intertwined pathways to a multitude of postsecondary and/or career options.

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PBS
Congratulations to Kareen Borders, teacher at Key Peninsula Middle School in Lakebay and L4L student. Kareen won a PBS Teachers' Innovation Award for inspiring students and transforming classroom learning. Learn about her innovative project here!
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NYC Leadership Academy

Professor Meredith Honig has joined the new NYC Leadership Academy Expert Advisory Council and will lend her expertise to the NYC Leadership Academy’s efforts to continuously learn from and improve its work developing school and school system leaders to identify and dismantle inequities.   

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Seattle Times

Career paths ordinarily do not follow footpaths. Author Craig Romano, though, loves being an exception, and a fairly unlikely one to boot ?~@~T a Connecticut-born writer treading in the footsteps of revered Northwest guidebook icons Harvey Manning and Ira Spring.

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KIRO Radio

Professor Jim Mazza is interviewed about his livestream series that focuses on sharing coping strategies and emotion regulation skills to aid parents in dealing with the COVID-19 crisis.

Samuel Odom, one of the College of Education's Distinguished Alumni awardees, recently won the Gesell Prize, an international award that includes 10,000 euros, a medal forged in silver, and a legacy alongside the international leaders in child development research.

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Seattle Foundation

The Haring Center for Inclusive Education's EEU lab school has received a grant from the Seattle Foundation to support its provision of emergency childcare to frontline medical staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Washington Principal

Chris Pearson, a Leadership for Learning student, and Keisha Scarlett, a Danforth alumnus, are featured as the state of Washington's 2014 Elementary School Principal of the Year and Middle-level Principal of the Year respectively.

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The Hill

Assistant Professor, David Knight, provides an opinion editorial to The Hill about making education funding a priority.