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collaborative program aims to help district grads address Tacoma’s teacher shortage COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 Kaden Bolton ’24 explored civics and public policy on campus and studying away in Oxford June 12, 2024 PLU welcomes new
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Facilitating Successful Peer ReviewAll effective writers at all levels of accomplishment seek out peer review. You probably know this from experience. By scheduling time for peer review in your classes, you help students develop the writerly skills of giving and getting help. Peer review: helps writers imagine a wider audience (beyond self and/or teacher). provides opportunity for direct audience feedback (to identify areas in need of greater support or clarification; to anticipate possible
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senior year of high school. That was the first year my high school actually had AP Biology. I had an amazing teacher who taught the class, essentially, like a college course. She gave us a lot of freedom, she let us guide how we could learn, what was best for us. Also let us guide what we covered, which was fantastic. That class is what really opened my eyes to majoring in biology. College was always important to my parents. Neither of them went to college and it was always clear growing up that the
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March 12, 2014 Nelly Trocme Hewett’s parents, Andre and Magda Trocme Hiding in Plain Sight: The Story of Rescue in Le Chambon, France By Barbara Clements Content Development Director It all started in the area of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, when a lone, and unexpected, Jewish refugee showed up in 1938, a Latin teacher from Vienna. Word spread. Others came. The Nazi occupation grew in power and the collaborative Vichy government tightened its grip, remembers Nelly Trocmé Hewett, 86, who will
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community about interfaith practices and promote open dialogue. Matthew Salzano '18 meditates in the new Multifaith Meditation and Prayer Space. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) “As Lutherans, we care about dialogue with people of other faith traditions and value that we have something to learn from each other. As an institution of learning, our students are living in a pluralistic, multifaith world,” Rude said. “Whether someone is a businessperson, a nurse or a teacher, they’re going to interact with
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Alumni News Homecoming 2015 Alumni Awards & Recognition dCenter Alumni Weekend Outcomes Campaign Alumni Profiles Class Notes Submit a Class Note Calendar Discovery Faculty / Students / April 21, 2014 By Sandy Deneau Dunham ResoLUTE Editor B rian Weisenstein is a teacher at Jakarta Intercultural School who spent one particularly toasty July afternoon conducting an experiment on canned pineapple juice in PLU’s Rieke Science Center. That’s not really as random as it sounds. Weisenstein plans to teach
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of public education positions, including as teacher at Peninsula and Henderson Bay High Schools, the Peninsula School District liaison for the home-school program and a drop-out prevention specialist. “We see tremendous growth in the students referred to our programs,” continues Shultz. “For example, last year students enrolled in our reading programs improved on average by one full grade level, and for math students the average improvement in scores was 33 percent.” Speer has served as the
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violin lecturer wears more hats than a British royal: in-demand violinist and violist, co-founder of the ground-breaking Carpe Diem String Quartet, teacher, composer. She’s been invited to play at festivals from Aspen to Lincoln Center and in chamber groups throughout the U.S. With commissions rolling in, she has been listed as one of “25 contemporary composers to watch” by Strings Magazine. For Fujiwara, success is less about prime gigs and good reviews, and more about sharing music. We managed to
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. Then goes to classes all day, secondary workouts, social time, then still finds time to create and expand an incredible business. “I don’t know how she does it some days, but we are constantly impressed with her.” The seemingly tireless Sandhu is double majoring in computer science and global studies and double minoring in religion and anthropology, with hopes of heading to law school after she’s done in Tacoma. But she has no intention of giving up her newest passion of baking cakes. The Sandhu
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significant difficulty concentrating hyperactivity expressed hostility toward friends, classmates, etc. acting significantly withdrawn talking explicitly about suicide, hopelessness, or homicide. Coping with Tragedies As we attempt to live our lives to the fullest, we encounter an increasingly unpredictable and violent world. We all at times suffer from secondary or vicarious victimization. David Baldwin’s trauma information pages offer excellent supportive information, as does the National Center of
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