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School’s out for summer, it would seem, but not for Eli Corning. Inside Gertrude Shaffer’s Distance Learning class, the 17-year-old junior supplemented his global education with a videoconference with Denis Okema of Global Education Motivators, a non-government...
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“My work is about bringing the world into my classroom,” Shaffer said recently, as she sat in her empty room during the last week of school. “It’s appropriate for young adolescents — whose brain is developing faster than at any other time other than infancy — to have...
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As the bell rings seventh graders troop into English Language Arts Teacher Gertrude Shaffer’s distant learning class to find answers to the hard questions our world faces today. Each year this class embarks on a new journey based on the eight Millennium Development...
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Rebecca Abitimo Odongkara was a young woman, a refugee from Uganda, living in the United States with her family during the reign of terror of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. Read the full story.
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Gunfire and military threats absorbed Ayuen Ajok through out his childhood in South Sudan. South Seneca School English teacher Gertrude Shaffer invited Ajok to bring home the impact of world events to middle school students. Read the full story.
