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Union Middle book club allows ‘safe space to share’ for students

Feb 23, 2022 06:23PM ● By Julie Slama

“It’s a safe place to share what they read and relate their own experiences with the characters,” said Union Middle’s teacher-librarian Elaine Zhang about the school’s book club that meets monthly.

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Hands-on means minds-on for learning science at Alta View

Feb 23, 2022 06:22PM ● By Julie Slama

“They’re inquiring and figuring out things. Learning through doing is empowering and engaging,” said an Alta View Elementary teacher about science learning.

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New dance teacher encourages Jordan Valley, Altara students to learn through movement

Feb 23, 2022 06:21PM ● By Julie Slama

“There’s just so much to learn through movement. It’s important to know how to use it and appreciate the fact that you can move in any way, in any form you can,” said Altara Elementary and Jordan Valley’s new dance teacher.

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Lone Peak students work together to define community through glass art mural

Feb 23, 2022 06:19PM ● By Julie Slama

Lone Peak students spend a school year learning about glass art and creating a fused art mural under the direction of a professional artist to reveal what community means to them.

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Looking into Utah’s judicial courtrooms: a former court watcher’s observation

Feb 22, 2022 08:00PM ● By Julie Slama

A former court watcher shares how she provided information to voters about judges coming up for retention and her assessment of Utah’s judges.

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High school students learn engineering offers variety, creativity, advancements

Feb 22, 2022 07:53PM ● By Julie Slama

A recent high school engineering career day attracted about 250 students to examine careers ranging from aerospace to thermodynamics.

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Grace Lutheran incorporates STEM education into liberal arts Christian curriculum

Feb 07, 2022 02:29PM ● By Julie Slama

“It’s more than just the technology part; it’s the designing and engineering,” said Grace Lutheran School’s principal about their STEM curriculum.

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Best-selling author uses fantastical imagination to guide students into good reading, writing habits

Feb 07, 2022 02:27PM ● By Julie Slama

“This is my job as a writer; I’m trying with details and descriptions to bring people to life. Imagination can take you places,” said best-selling author Brandon Mull to an auditorium of local middle school students.

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Rowley soars into being top Hawk as Alta High’s McGill heads up District’s student services

Feb 07, 2022 02:23PM ● By Julie Slama

With a goal of “relentless pursuit of excellence,” Alta High’s new principal Ken Rowley has expectations: “I want people to be honest with me. I want people to tell me exactly what’s going on because if you hide the truth, real change and real improvement will never happen. I am not afraid of the cold hard facts.”

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As pandemic continues, Canyons School District navigates students’ social-emotional learning

Feb 03, 2022 10:16AM ● By Julie Slama

As numbers of infected people increase due to the omicron variant of COVID-19, and the Canyons’ school board voted not to continue using its third-party social-emotional curriculum, the district’s new student services director leads the charge into what social-emotional learning may look like for students in the future.

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