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Back to School: Welcome to Room 101
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Welcome to a new year of learning in Room 101! Our class is filled with twenty-seven third graders and me—the one who has learned with and from my students for 30 years. As you look around the room you might...
A Starting Place for Equity in STEM and Green Jobs
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A few years ago many of my friends were on the hunt for jobs. It was a pretty dismal landscape. When I graduated from college in 2010 unemployment, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), was at a high...
San Mateo Environmental Learning Collaborative: School’s in Session
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Working in the education arena can really do wonders for any misconceptions one might have about teachers having the summer off. Although school is technically out, anyone who thinks teachers don’t work year-round is sorely mistaken—as I’ve had the...
August 2015 Newsletter
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Is this a “Goldilocks Moment” for environmental literacy? Will Parish, our founder and president, thinks so and writes about it in his latest blog post.
... A ‘Goldilocks Moment’ for Environmental Literacy
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Are we experiencing a “Goldilocks Moment” for Ten Strands’ efforts to be successful in environmental education? In The Big History Project by David Christian, he describes the reason the earth began supporting life to be that conditions were just right:...
Hot off the press—a report from the Teacher Ambassador Institute
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We’ve just returned from the Teacher Ambassador Institute in Folsom, California, where despite the temperature peaking at 110 degrees, we were all able to keep our cool and enjoy a productive workshop. Because the number of teachers interested in the...
Summer Time and the Workin’ is Happening
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Fish are jumpin’ and we’re gearing up for a busy summer at Ten Strands! We’ll be supporting and participating in three professional learning institutes in June, July, and August. The first event is the EEI Teacher Ambassador Training Institute (TA...
Making the Complicated Simple
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We’re fortunate here at Ten Strands to have a group of folks with a wide range of talents from different backgrounds, locations, and fields of experience. It makes for a strong team—and some very interesting staff meetings as, you can...