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A local festival with more than a decade of history is going regional this year, giving more Aucklanders the opportunity to learn new skills and connect ...

As leaders in this space, the eco hubs behind EcoFest want to provide more opportunities for Aucklanders both to make simple changes in their own lives and contribute to a bigger conversation about what’s needed to address the climate crisis." "The need for us all to step up to combat the climate crisis is increasing. With over 90 years of environmental action combined, the four hubs have a wealth of knowledge to share on all things sustainability. "It’s been a long-held dream of ours to see EcoFest continue to grow and expand. Started in 2012 as EcoFest West by EcoMatters Environment Trust, the annual festival quickly became a popular way to experience hands-on environmental action, connect with neighbours and learn new skills in West Auckland. Starting on Saturday 18 March, the EcoFest programme will be packed with events, activities, installations and workshops for people of all ages and at any stage of their sustainability journey.

This event is for faculty only and will be held in 258 Gearhart Hall (Honors College). Lunch will be served at 11 a.m. The panel discussion will be led by award ...

More information regarding [Service Learning Course Designation](https://servicelearning.uark.edu/faculty-resources/course-designation.php) can be found on the Service Learning Initiative website. Since 2014, when the initiative was launched, more than 150 [courses](https://servicelearning.uark.edu/courses/index.php) have been designated as Service Learning. [The Service Learning Initiative](https://servicelearning.uark.edu/) is a joint initiative of the U of A Provost's Office and the Honors College with the purpose of formalizing and expanding service learning opportunities on campus. This event is for faculty only and will be held in 258 Gearhart Hall (Honors College). The panel discussion will be led by award-winning service learning faculty: Lisa Bowers, Rogelio Garcia Contreras and Gabriel Diaz Montemayor. Lunch will be served at 11 a.m.

The adaptative approach applied to the EAS teacher development multi-year study series has uncovered valuable lessons for future education research.

Using case studies to investigate and understand teaching quality and student learning: Initial lessons learned](https://research.acer.edu.au/eas/48/) For example, a key consideration in the design of the classroom observation tool was that it realistically needed to be implemented by local researchers with no classroom-based experience. Each cycle of data collection was improved based on previous lessons learned across the 3 countries. With an understanding that data about teaching needs to come from a range of sources, the team designed and implemented solutions on a country-level basis, taking lessons learned over time to enhance data quality. In Vanuatu, existing national and regional data was used to provide a reference point for student learning in literacy and numeracy, but in Laos, where no Grade 1 national data was available, a project-specific student assessment was designed by the study team. ACER embarked on a mixed-methods data collection approach to provide a more holistic view of teaching quality.

The study reveals that factors like homework, small classroom sizes and a long school day do not have a big influence on students' learning outcomes. The ...

“Every child can learn, can grow, and can be taught to love learning. “We want students to trust their teachers and know what they are learning, why they are learning, and knowing their progress in their learning.” “We do that by creating classrooms full of trust, where mistakes are seen as opportunities to learn, and the teachers are constantly assessing their own impact," Professor Hattie said.

Shark intestines have a unique spiral shape that favors fluid flow in one direction. By learning about the workings of this phenomenon, physicists hope to ...

However, printing the shapes using a softer elastomer led to faster fluid flow in one direction. And they showed that if you connect these intestines in the same direction as a digestive tract, you get a faster flow of fluid than if you connect them the other way around. But then you remember that the intestines are not made out of steel—they’re made of something soft, so while fluid flows through the pipe, it deforms it.” One of the theorems in physics actually states that if you take a pipe, and you flow fluid very slowly through it, you have the same flow if you invert it. On Monday, February 20 at the 67th Annual Biophysical Society Meeting in San Diego, California, he will present how 3D printing models of shark intestines is helping them learn about how these spirals work. In 2021, scientists discovered that sharks’ spiral-shaped intestines work much the same way, favoring fluid flow in one direction—from head to pelvis.

I wanted the students in our school to be able to communicate with everyone,” teacher Leah Brosky said.

Brosky said parents have already come up to her and said the students have been using sign language at home. Brosky said the entire family committed to learning sign language. Additionally, Brosky said she began to implement sign into her classroom when she became a kindergarten teacher. Brosky initially learned sign language while she was still a substitute teacher for the East China School District. The sign language class is a new addition to the winter enrichment program at the elementary school. Brosky, a kindergarten teacher, volunteered to teach sign language every Wednesday.

Representatives with the High Technology Foundation, Microsoft and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Open Data Dissemination Initiative ...

Faculty from a broad range of disciplines are encouraged to learn more about this unique program and apply for the inaugural cohort. The program offers an opportunity for faculty to create curriculum that enhances student skills in data mining, problem solving, critical thinking, innovation and entrepreneurship. [Cloud Analytics Faculty Fellowship](https://business.wvu.edu/research-outreach/data-driven-wv/cloud-analytics-faculty-fellows) during this virtual event from noon to 1 p.m.

Living-learning communities enable students to participate in academic and personal development under a shared topic. Here are 10 memorable themes for ...

The LLC is housed in Dellplain Hall, which is near the Disability Cultural Center, the Center for Disability Resources and the Center on Disability and Inclusion in the School of Education. [Newly named president of College of Saint Mary backs out](http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2023/02/06/newly-named-president-college-saint-mary-backs-out#at_pco=cfd-1.0) [Florida colleges have no right to accreditation (opinion) [Elon University—Polyglot Floor](https://www.elon.edu/u/academics/living-and-learning/residential-learning-communities/polyglot-floor-llc/) Disability Pride residents enroll in DES 400: Inclusive Design Intelligence for the academic year, examining issues of ableism and accessibility as well as developing solutions to challenges identified by the disability community. The community offers engagement across majors in a multidisciplinary approach through social events, workshops and coursework. Faculty and other guests will host weekly Homestead seminar sessions for discussions relevant to the Homestead. The Homestead is 40-year-old experiment to create a self-reliant agricultural community on the campus space. Fincher Hall, however, is a little different, as it only hosts members of the SAU Mulerider Band. At FSU, LLCs are for first-year students, and the cohort takes a colloquium class together. While there’s no major requirement for FETCH LLC, one aim is to help students learn more about the service animal industry. Many living-learning communities relate to a student’s year at school, targeting first-year, sophomore and transfer levels. “Those types of programs are really important for students but also essential collaborators” for university partners, adds Bush-Hobgood, who is associate vice president for auxiliary enterprises at Clemson University as well.

WATERVILLE, Maine (WABI) - Folks at the Quarry Road Trails in Waterville are inviting kids to ski and snowboard with them while out on school vacation.

“it is fun because when you get to the top, you can come down and it is really fun because you can go fast or slow or any speed you like,” said Trenton Clark of Oakland. Victor Esposito, with JMG says the the learn to ski program started last year with just eight students. WATERVILLE, Maine (WABI) - Folks at the Quarry Road Trails in Waterville are inviting kids to ski and snowboard with them while out on school vacation.

Instead of viewing them as 'good' or 'bad', parents should focus on the quality of teaching and overall mindset of the school community.

Your child might be in a composite class out of necessity because of enrolment numbers, or because their school thinks it is a better way to educate students. Whatever class students are in, there will be variation in ages, behaviours and competencies. [2006 Australian study](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/251401930_Parents'_views_of_composite_classes_in_an_Australian_Primary_School) suggested parents are likely to react negatively when they hear their child is in a composite class. [national curriculum](https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/resources/national-literacy-and-numeracy-learning-progressions/) has provided literacy and numeracy “progressions”. [also shows](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261879095_Class_size_and_academic_results_with_a_focus_on_children_from_culturally_linguistically_and_economically_disenfranchised_communities) the way students are grouped is not the most important factor. For example, in NSW classes are smaller in the first year of schooling, with a maximum of 20 students to one teacher. They also noted, composites allow for “more flexibility and opportunities for acceleration”. This means there can be an 18-month age range, and a multi-age class forms naturally. [social and emotional benefits](https://ro.ecu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3968&context=ajte) for students. From year 3 on, there can be a maximum of 30 students to one teacher. The philosophy behind this is students of similar ages are grouped together to align with similar stages of learning development. Composite classes are more common in smaller schools.

Kim King, an art teacher at Mansfield Elementary School in Storrs Mansfield, Conn., works with Ainsley Liebster, a pre-K student in her choice-based art class ...

“There are a lot of students going to school every day looking for that teacher’s smile.” She uses the example of having students who are learning how to write practice writing words in shaving cream. Expectations have risen to match the science of learning,” Saum said. “Some students who were barely reading are now begging for more reading time.” “I didn’t realize they were trying to mimic my behavior.” “For the others, I was doing a lot of scaffolding, re-directing, re-engaging them in the project,” she said. Too often, said Bell, educators focus on having students summarize what they’ve learned as opposed to encouraging them to elaborate on concepts, which can occur even at the youngest grades through exploration of something as simple and concrete as a picture book. For instance, Saum said that if she is assessing spelling and not writing, she will allow a student who has difficulty with written expression to instead spell the word orally. Most of King’s former high school students decided well before they reached her class whether or not they were “good at” art, King said. I started to see more engagement and self-motivation,” King said. But there’s a lot teachers can do to keep the spark alive among their most self-motivated students, and to ignite it in others. She’s found that giving students more control over what they do in her classes motivates them to try harder.

A life-changing encounter with the secretive creature led Arnaud Desbiez to dedicate his work to saving it from extinction.

The Giant Armadillo Conservation Project works directly with beekeepers to produce giant armadillo-friendly honey. Yet it plays a central role in the ecosystem by providing refuges to other species,” he says. “The giant armadillo will take three to four years to produce one pup. Giant armadillos will knock down beehives to access and prey on the larvae, which can lead to revenge killings by beekeepers. During the 2019 fire, Desbiez remembers a local landowner on her tractor ploughing all night in an attempt to put out the flames, while her ranch hands were firefighting in sandals and shorts, armed only with branches. That every giant armadillo is absolutely precious, that any threat to the species – deforestation, hunting, disease, fire – has a huge impact and can cause local extinction,” says Desbiez. For example, Desbiez says the team has discovered there is [only one viable population of giant armadillos](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42991-022-00277-9) in the heavily fragmented Atlantic Forest (only about 10% of which remains). Desbiez has also studied how long it takes for giant armadillos to mature and produce their own pups. He says the species has probably evolved such a long penis because of the practicalities of coupling with a rotund, heavily armoured female. As well as the 350 sq km study area in the Pantanal – the largest wetlands in the world – the project has moved into two other locations in Brazil, the Cerrado, a tropical grassland, and the Atlantic Forest, a coastal rainforest. Yet it was one of the least understood – and least recorded – animals. Weighing up to 50kg and growing up to 1.5 metres in length, the giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus) is bigger than most large dogs, with a 15cm sickle claw used to plunder rock-hard termite mounds.