Keyword: Literacy
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N.Y. needs to boost financial education in our schools
Young people in New York have a great knowledge of many subjects, but they have much to learn about personal finance. more
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Roxie, a Long Island Therapy is pet by participants during a reading break during the Paws 4 Reading event at the Oceanside Library on April 10.
Children practice reading on eager therapy dogs
Long Island Therapy Dogs Lucie Lou and Roxie were treated like celebrities by kids at the Oceanside Library’s Paws 4 Reading program on April 10. The dogs who were read to by children from … more
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On Saturday, march for our lives
I don’t know about you, but there hasn’t been one day since the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, when I haven’t cried or given my kids a suffocatingly tight hug. more
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L.I. school board tries to ban Black Lives Matter
The Smithtown School District will restrict the use of 34 BrainPop instructional videos in classrooms because they introduce topics like Black Lives Matter and human sexuality. more
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Meredith Chesler, back left, joined her team, including, at right, Lynn Brown and Lyn Dobrin, in a competitive game of (un)Scrabble at Literacy Nassau’s 50th anniversary gala at Chateau Briand in Carle Place last Thursday.
Freeport-based Literacy Nassau celebrates 50th anniversary
No doubt, Literacy Nassau’s annual gala is different than most such dinners. There’s plenty of food and drink, but no DJ blasting music and no dancing. For much (though not all) of the night, attendees don’t converse and network. Rather, they’re lost in play. more
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Rabbi Baruch Noy, the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway’s STEM curriculum coordinator, showed Peter Drukker, center, and Noah Popack how to use the state-of-the-art laser cutter in the middle school’s laboratory.
Where teachers, students meet technology
Students still read textbooks and jot notes in paper binders today, but technology reigns supreme in most all Long Island schools and in most all grades, from kindergarten through high school. How teachers apply that technology and how students learn to use the high-tech devices at their disposal will, no doubt, have a profound effect on education — and the work world of the future. more
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Oceanside High School to focus on students’ emotions
Over the next year, Oceanside High School will implement a social emotional literacy (SEL) program which administrators believe will promote positive decision making among students during their years … more
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Oceanside’s emotional RULER
The Oceanside School District is expanding on its “whole child” approach to education by implementing a new Social Emotional Literacy (SEL) program, starting this year at the elementary level. … more
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