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Teachers Labor for Choices Beyond the Union
posted by: Cindy Omlin | February 23, 2015, 05:48 pm   

NWPE Director Cindy Omlin pens the column "Teachers Labor for Choices Beyond the Union" published in Idaho Education News:  

 
Is virtual preschool really a thing? YES!
posted by: Cindy Omlin | February 23, 2015, 03:48 pm   

Amidst discussion of universal preschool, a new form of preschool has emerged out of the tech world - and it’s opening up the doors for school choicer supporters all across the globe.

 
Beth Richtsmeier's Students Track Legislators' Physical Activity
posted by: Cindy Omlin | February 19, 2015, 12:43 pm   

Congratulations to NWPE member Beth Richtsmeier, a teacher at Meridian Technical Charter School in Meridian, Idaho.  Three of her students were recently featured in Idaho Education News for developing an innovative web program that tracks the daily physical activities of legislators.

 
Civics Bill Widely Supported by NWPE Members
posted by: Cindy Omlin | February 18, 2015, 03:12 pm   

Senator Jim Patrick from Twin Falls, Idaho, has introduced a bill to deal with an important issue for Idaho's education system, namely, increasing the knowledge and engagement of Idaho’s young voters-to-be.  According to Sam Stone, political director for the Civics Education Initiative, about 92 percent of immigrants applying for U.S. citizenship pass the American citizenship test on their first try, but studies in Arizona and Oklahoma have found that less than 5 percent of high school students passed the test.

 
Service Learning Opportunity in Belize!
posted by: Cindy Omlin | February 11, 2015, 04:34 pm   

Northwest Professional Educators has established a partnership with Global Service Partnerships (GSP), an organization that creates and designs service projects in partnership with schools and communities in Belize to address educational challenges.  GSP believes that international service and travel, combined with intentional learning, broadens the mind and heart, giving us global perspectives on ways we mutually impact one another's lives.

 
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