February 2012
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Legos, Smart Boards, and OMLA
Last week Helen Jackson, RRR’s Education Director, attended the Ohio Middle Level Association Conference to watch master teacher, Veronica Asbury, lead a great presentation called “Gettin’ on the Groove”. Veronica has presented at the OMLA for the last two years as well as at the recent National Middle School Conference held in Louisville, KY. She is well known as a...
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Women in Black History
Today Helen and I had a discussion about our customer base, and our discovery that a large percentage of our customers are female. We think it’s pretty great that so many women are using educational rap music in the classroom, and it inspired me to do some research on women in black history. I checked out the African American History Month website and found that this month’s theme is...
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Today in Black History - Peabody Fund
From Wikipedia:
Founded of necessity due to damage caused largely by the American Civil War, the Peabody Education Fund was established by George Peabody in 1867 for the purpose of promoting “intellectual, moral, and industrial education in the most destitute portion of the Southern States.” The gift of foundation consisted of securities to the value of $2,100,000, of which $1,100,000...
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