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Project pairs students and marketing professionals with brick-and-mortar store owners WIR’ED seeks to improve online presence, marketing for Cleveland shopkeepers

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] WIR’ED seeks to improve online presence, marketing for Cleveland shopkeepers CLEVELAND – Students from Cleveland Metropolitan School District and businesses in the Old Brooklyn Neighborhood are being sought for the second pilot of WIR’ED, a program that pairs students and marketing professionals with business owners to improve online

Promoting Positive Adolescent Health Behaviors and Outcomes

When it comes to adolescent health, adults—including parents, clinicians, and teachers—often focus on how to prevent teens from taking risks. But a recent report from the Board on Children, Youth, and Families at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine found that healthy risk taking is a normal and

Roy Smith shows how students will sit in the pews at Jones Road Congregational Church to do their online lessons, once the first nine students fill a church meeting room. (Patrick O’Donnell)

Church Pews and Gymnasiums Become Learning Spots as Cleveland Scrambles to Help Students With Online Lessons

The first room of the new “learning center” opening this week at Jones Road Congregational Church looks straightforward enough. Long tables fill a small church meeting room, spaced apart for students to do online school work while schools are closed because of COVID-19. The first nine students to sign up

Do you have an extra computer at your home – even one that’s not working?

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Do you have any extra funds – even just a few dollars? These are a few of the many ways that you can help support learning for students in the region, especially in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. Dale Anglin of the Cleveland Foundation, Dorothy Baunach of Digital C and

Learning Pods, the Digital Divide

Learn How to Support These & Other Initiatives at the Sept. 1 meeting of NeoSTEM Ecosystem Register for the meeting here. There is an open call for proposals from organizations interested in providing academic learning pods for Cleveland Metropolitan School District students. (This RFP for ALPs will consist of grants to

New York Times: Open-Air Classrooms Were the Solution for School During Earlier Plagues

In the early years of the 20th century, tuberculosis ravaged American cities, taking a particular and often fatal toll on the poor and the young. In 1907, two Rhode Island doctors, Mary Packard and Ellen Stone, had an idea for mitigating transmission among children. Following education trends in Germany, they

FAMILY LISTENING CAMPAIGN: KEEPING PARENTS AND STUDENTS AT THE CENTER OF THE EDUCATION CONVERSATION

What is most important to parents in choosing a school for their child? What challenges do families face in their decision making? Through hundreds of emails and conversational interviews with parents, educators, and local/national community stakeholders, the Cleveland Transformation Alliance Family Listening Campaign has become a thoughtfully designed research tool that will

PHOTO: Cleveland Play House is offering free, virtual classes to everyone.

CMSD CEO Eric Gordon, school leaders hosting webinar Tuesday on how to best support teachers, students during remote learning

By: Kaylyn Hlavaty CLEVELAND — As more districts opt-in to begin the school year with remote learning, including the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, Eric Gordon, CEO of CMSD, along with a local school board president and network manager of MyCom, will host a webinar Tuesday to show how the community can

As Schools Work to Figure Out Learning in the Fall… What Can You Do to Best Support Learning?

Join a NeoSTEM Ecosystem webinar 4 p.m. Tuesday with CMSD’s CEO, the president of a school board, a leader of a community support network and a teacher to discover how you can best support learning needs CLEVELAND – Eric Gordon, chief executive officer of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, a local teacher, the network

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