Spate of suicides among Las Vegas students prompts schools to reopen: 18 youngsters - the youngest just nine-years-old - killed themselves during nine-month studying from home period
Surge in student suicides during final nine months of 2020 has led to Clark County School District Board to approve reopening of schools for vulnerable
Youngest student to commit suicide in the county was nine years old
The 18 student suicides recorded in nine months during which schools were closed is double the number recorded in 2019
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Apple has highlighted a Las Vegas technology teacher who uses the iPad to teach students how to craft their own stories.
Apple on Monday published a feature story of the project, which was headed up by elementary school teacher Mike Lang. Lang works as a technology educator in the Clark County School District s Laura Dearing Elementary School.
The project involves students taking and editing images of themselves, their family and their community. From there, they craft their stories about why they matter using a coding app. The first part is designed to show kids that they are valuable, and uses Christian Robinson book You Matter as a starting point.
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Apple has highlighted a Las Vegas technology teacher who uses the iPad to teach students how to craft their own stories.
Credit: Apple
Apple on Monday published a feature story of the project, which was headed up by elementary school teacher Mike Lang. Lang works as a technology educator in the Clark County School District s Laura Dearing Elementary School.
The project involves students taking and editing images of themselves, their family and their community. From there, they craft their stories about why they matter using a coding app. The first part is designed to show kids that they are valuable, and uses Christian Robinson book You Matter as a starting point.
Administrators like Delgado were caught off-guard, as they were actively recruiting teachers and already scrambling to adapt to an academic year amid a pandemic. It cut the number of foreign workers hired on the country’s most common teaching visa in half nationwide. The ban added to the country’s growing teacher deficit, leaving many schools with dozens sometimes hundreds of unfilled positions at the start of the school year.
Those teachers would have served some of America’s most vulnerable kids, administrators say. “Eighty-eight of the teachers that we had offered jobs to are special education teachers, which is a critical shortage, not only in Nevada, but nationally,” said Jesus Jara, superintendent of the Clark County School District.
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