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Category Archives: Education

Oct thru Nov – Belmont Hills Library // Understanding and Demystifying College Admissions

09 Tuesday Aug 2016

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Cigus Vanni is coming back to the Belmont Hills Library. He will be sharing his priceless college admissions knowledge.

Understanding and Demystifying College Admissions.
4 Wednesdays in row (10/26, 11/2, 11/9, 11/16)
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Different subjects every Wednesday night.
You do not have to attend all sessions – pick and choose.
Stay tuned for subjects. Please bring your future college student with you.

Belmont Hills Library
120 Mary Waters Ford Rd, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004

Why We Desperately Need To Bring Back Vocational Training In Schools – Forbes

30 Monday May 2016

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Instructor helps a student participating in a woodworking manufacturing training program in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Photographer: Tim Boyle/Bloomberg Charlie Negron Throughout most of U.S. history, American high school students were routinely taught vocational and job-ready skills along with the three Rs: reading, writing and arithmetic. Indeed readers of a certain age are […]

Source: Why We Desperately Need To Bring Back Vocational Training In Schools – Forbes

Science in the Summer Program (July 22nd – July 25th)

07 Tuesday May 2013

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GSKscienceWe’re ready to start registering kids for Science in the Summer!
Science in the Summer, sponsored by Glaxo Smith Kline, introduces students entering grades two through six to the fun of science.

Classes in this year’s theme, Genetics, will meet for 45 minutes for four days. Students are expected to attend all four classes.
Only 15 students are permitted in each session and these students are chosen by lottery. First preference is given to Narberth residents.  Once our spaces are filled, we will begin a waiting list.

July 22nd to July 25th
Level 1  10:00 to 10:45—going into 2nd n 3rd grade—15 kids
Level 2  11:15 to 12:00—going into 5th n 6th grade—15 kids
1st preference to Narberth residents, waiting list available

Tadah Learning Center – Reingnite the passion you have for your business!

24 Wednesday Apr 2013

Posted by KTE in Business, Education, Social Media Tips

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Tadah Learning Center.

SHARING FROM A FRIEND: Before she started her business (while working full-time) she did tons of research before hand. She realized that an online business would allow her the ability to work and grow a business little by little.  She passed this resource on because she believes it can help anyone in new to online business.

They are 4 week classes taken online. It’s a community of other people just starting out, just like you. (FIND OUT MORE)

Time to invest in yourself.

Pawsitive Reading…tonight!

03 Wednesday Apr 2013

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snuggles7 PM TONIGHT AT NARBERTH LIBRARY: join Snuggles the therapy dog tonight for Pawsitive Reading! he will be here from 7 pm to 7:50. each child can read with Snuggles for a 10 minute slot, longer if no one is waiting. “non readers” (toddlers & pre-school) are also encourage to come–they can share a Board book with Snuggles!

Need a Job? Invent It

02 Tuesday Apr 2013

Posted by KTE in Business, Education, Inspiration, Kids, Networking

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By  THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: March 30, 2013    80 Comments

(Reblogged from the NYT)

WHEN Tony Wagner, the Harvard education specialist, describes his job today, he says he’s “a translator between two hostile tribes” — the education world and the business world, the people who teach our kids and the people who give them jobs. Wagner’s argument in his book “Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World” is that our K-12 and college tracks are not consistently “adding the value and teaching the skills that matter most in the marketplace.”

This is dangerous at a time when there is increasingly no such thing as a high-wage, middle-skilled job — the thing that sustained the middle class in the last generation. Now there is only a high-wage, high-skilled job. Every middle-class job today is being pulled up, out or down faster than ever. That is, it either requires more skill or can be done by more people around the world or is being buried — made obsolete — faster than ever. Which is why the goal of education today, argues Wagner, should not be to make every child “college ready” but “innovation ready” — ready to add value to whatever they do.

That is a tall task. I tracked Wagner down and asked him to elaborate. “Today,” he said via e-mail, “because knowledge is available on every Internet-connected device, what you know matters far less than what you can do with what you know. The capacity to innovate — the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life — and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge. As one executive told me, ‘We can teach new hires the content, and we will have to because it continues to change, but we can’t teach them how to think — to ask the right questions — and to take initiative.’ ”

 My generation had it easy. We got to “find” a job. But, more than ever, our kids will have to “invent” a job. (Fortunately, in today’s world, that’s easier and cheaper than ever before.) Sure, the lucky ones will find their first job, but, given the pace of change today, even they will have to reinvent, re-engineer and reimagine that job much more often than their parents if they want to advance in it. If that’s true, I asked Wagner, what do young people need to know today?

“Every young person will continue to need basic knowledge, of course,” he said. “But they will need skills and motivation even more. Of these three education goals, motivation is the most critical. Young people who are intrinsically motivated — curious, persistent, and willing to take risks — will learn new knowledge and skills continuously. They will be able to find new opportunities or create their own — a disposition that will be increasingly important as many traditional careers disappear.”

So what should be the focus of education reform today?

“We teach and test things most students have no interest in and will never need, and facts that they can Google and will forget as soon as the test is over,” said Wagner. “Because of this, the longer kids are in school, the less motivated they become. Gallup’s recent survey showed student engagement going from 80 percent in fifth grade to 40 percent in high school. More than a century ago, we ‘reinvented’ the one-room schoolhouse and created factory schools for the industrial economy. Reimagining schools for the 21st-century must be our highest priority. We need to focus more on teaching the skill and will to learn and to make a difference and bring the three most powerful ingredients of intrinsic motivation into the classroom: play, passion and purpose.”

What does that mean for teachers and principals?

“Teachers,” he said, “need to coach students to performance excellence, and principals must be instructional leaders who create the culture of collaboration required to innovate. But what gets tested is what gets taught, and so we need ‘Accountability 2.0.’ All students should have digital portfolios to show evidence of mastery of skills like critical thinking and communication, which they build up right through K-12 and postsecondary. Selective use of high-quality tests, like the College and Work Readiness Assessment, is important. Finally, teachers should be judged on evidence of improvement in students’ work through the year — instead of a score on a bubble test in May. We need lab schools where students earn a high school diploma by completing a series of skill-based ‘merit badges’ in things like entrepreneurship. And schools of education where all new teachers have ‘residencies’ with master teachers and performance standards — not content standards — must become the new normal throughout the system.”

Who is doing it right?

“Finland is one of the most innovative economies in the world,” he said, “and it is the only country where students leave high school ‘innovation-ready.’  They learn concepts and creativity more than facts, and have a choice of many electives — all with a shorter school day, little homework, and almost no testing. In the U.S., 500 K-12 schools affiliated with Hewlett Foundation’s Deeper Learning Initiative and a consortium of 100 school districts called EdLeader21 are developing new approaches to teaching 21st-century skills. There are also a growing number of ‘reinvented’ colleges like the Olin College of Engineering, the M.I.T. Media Lab and the ‘D-school’ at Stanford where students learn to innovate.”

Pawsitive Reading at the Narberth Library (every Wednesday night)

24 Sunday Mar 2013

Posted by KTE in Community Building, Community Calendar, Education, Entertaining, Kids, People, Pets

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dog book

NEW AT NARBERTH LIBRARY: Pawsitive Reading every Wed night, from 7 pm to 7:50 pm. so far, we have 3 different therapy dogs visiting. each child (or group of kids) gets a 10 min slot to read with the dog–longer if no one is waiting! you can… sign up ahead of time by calling the Narberth library at (610) 664-2878, or just drop in! “non-readers” such as toddlers are encouraged to come as well, they can pet the dog and look at board books together!

Radnor Teen Program Hits Hard Times #abetterchance

18 Friday Jan 2013

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ABC

RADNOR TWP. – (VIDEO)

Radnor High 10th grader Eryka Joseph harmonizes with freshman Jordan Coleman over guitar riffs.

Senior Eliezer Marte shows of his unicycle skills.

Welcome to the Radnor A Better Chance house–also known as ABC. A national program that provides academically talented, minority students the opportunity to attend Radnor High without the financial burden.

It’s one  of the best schools in the country.

Melanyn Rivas recalls her challenge the first year there.

“I said these kids are running already and I  had to catch up. It’s hard”

Rivas is hundreds of miles from her Queens, New York home. She’s one of six students taking part in the program—five of them from out of state.

Austin Taylor’s from Atlanta.

“It’s nothing like I’ve seen. They’re loving caring and help push me to do what I need to do to go and to help achieve my dreams.

But the dreams of these teens may be have to be deferred.

ABC’s co-president says dwindling donations and $50,000 in repairs to the 110-year-old home’s roof, driveway and bathrooms could mean an end to the program.

“Our budget is $120,000 a year,” said Schorr. “We like to have a year in reserves and don’t have that. So if we cant provide the opportunities for the  kids’ their futures will be greatly affected if we have to close.”

And that could mean an end to Erika’s Ivy League dreams of becoming a lawyer.

http://www.myfoxphilly.com/story/20608438/teen-program-hits-hard-time

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How to Choose a College – NYTimes.com

09 Wednesday Jan 2013

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How to Choose a College – NYTimes.com.

via How to Choose a College – NYTimes.com.

Swedish Classroom Fun: Russian multiplication

15 Saturday Dec 2012

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Swedish Classroom Fun: Russian multiplication.

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