Yourornia, tell us about school and students through the im fortunate to be able to that ispopulation almost entirely firstgeneration american. Most of my students are emergent so, i get to take a group of students who really want to learn to read it immigrants immigrant children love learning. I get to be the guide is to teach them about American History, World History and help them see their place within this country that sometimes does not always see them as part of it. You are moving to a New High School in the coming fall. What if you taught in the past . When i started, i was the only history teacher to read coming year, i will be focused on government critic when you say focused on government, government thread when you. Ay focused o [no audio] then, i get to talk about media and bias and their place in it. It we take time to learn about journalism and media studies. We get to write things about how to vote and get to research. We get to see not only how the government functions
Programs in their teaching. They join cspans educational Relations Team in washington, d. C. For four weeks in july to develop new teaching materials. They also have lead cspan some summer educators conference. One of our three 2019 teacher fellows is middle School Teacher Zachariah Lowe of sumter, South Carolina. Zach lowe is one of our cspan teacher fellows. Hes a teacher at middle school in sumter, South Carolina. Tell us a little bit about your students. My students come from a very rural, very impoverished backgrounds. We are very on the edge of the Sumter County in South Carolina. Its kind of shape like oklahoma so our school comes from the panhandle, so we are completely away from the nearest city, and we have about 400 kids grades k through eight, so very small school as well. The kids are determined to grow, determined to learn and just great personalities. And desire to try to make their communities a better place. Your focus is state history, South Carolina state history. Wh
Zachariah lowe of sumter South Carolina. Zach lowe is a teacher at middle school in sumter, South Carolina. Tell us a little bit about your students. My students come from a very rural, very impoverished backgrounds. Were very on the edge of Sumter County in South Carolina. Its kind of shaped a little bit like oklahoma, so our school comes from the panhandle, so we are completely away from the nearest city. And we have about 400 kids, grades k through 8, so a very small school as well, but the kids are determined to grow. They are determined to learn and just great personalities and desire to try and make their communities a better place. Your focus as a teacher is state history. South carolina state history. What prompted you to apply to be a teacher fellow . What did you think you would learn . Actually i came to cspans educator conference about four years ago. It was my first real big professional development experience. It was right after my first year of teaching, and its kind of
from the bay area s local news station. we now with breaking news. we begin tonight with the breaking news in southern california. state of emergency is being declared now for the city of laguna niguel in southern california. the coastal fire, it has burned at least 200 acres so far and approximately 20 homes. these are multimillion dollar homes about 25 miles down the coast from huntington beach ares county fire officials say they have 60 different types of resources battling the flames tonight as residents are being asked to evacuate and people in surrounding areas are being told to limit their use of water. strong winds earlier this afternoon made it quite difficult for fire crews to extinguish the flames. but the orange county fire chief tonight says fire crews are starting to, quote, get a better handle on the situation. the focus is to get into these homes to really take a look at those addicts to get down to the vegetation, to really make sure that we re not le
Motel room where she was staying with her mother and her mother s boyfriend. Mike cronin joins us live in the studio with how loved ones are remembering eve. Mike her classmates planned tonight s vigil so those who knew her and those who didn t could grieve and celebrate her life. More than 100 of eve s family and friends were together to say goodbye to the girl whose life was cut short. It s really hard to believe. It s shocking. Mike a candlelight vigil was held at the rochester comments for the 17yearold who died more than a week ago in a motel room. Police are investigating her death as a possible drug overdose. She was a senior at spaulding high school. She would always help people. She was really sweet. She was a beautiful person. Mike her classmates organize the emotional gathering as she was such an outgoing, great girl to be around, and we had dreams of being fashion designers together. It s nice to have that memory. For me, it s personal. I know even his father. I don t know