When Jessica Pinson was told she would be the high school choice for district-level Teacher of the Year, she was surprised.She also felt undeserving.“Simply because if I look at my department, or the rest of the faculty, I don’t deserve it any more than they do,” explained Pinson, a teacher at Central Magnet School. “I have watched them pour countless hours into troubleshooting and adapting lessons for kids in such a challenging year. We’re all doing it.”  .
Rutherford County Schools has announced its upcoming summer camp and summer school sessions to begin in June. These programs funded using Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund, or ESSER,
Rutherford County Schools will once again offer free Accelerated Learning Camps this summer for students in grades K-8, and high school credit recovery and traditional summer school will also be available. The school district is using federal funding through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund to offer the summer programming.In summer 2021, more than 6,000 students benefited from the K-8 summer camps, and more than 1,000 high school credits were earned through the cred .
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Lessons from Scholastic
With the horror of what happened at the U.S. Capitol this past week still sinking in, there is an important question: How to explain it to America s children? Kids want to understand it, said Dick Robinson, president and CEO of Scholastic. The Capitol is a symbol. It s very important to them.
And so, Robinson said, his editors immediately started posting stories for students on the websites of Scholastic magazines. In fourth grade we ll explain it one way; in eighth grade we ll explain it another way, he said.
In fact, Scholastic – the largest publisher of children s magazines and books in the world – is just marking its 100th anniversary of helping children make sense of things: