FOX13 News, WHBQ FOX 13 By Jack Day It’s difficult to imagine stories like this exist, but it’s pretty awesome that they do. Carl Schneider, a special education teacher at Whitney Achievement Elementary School in Memphis, Tennessee has been doing something for students at the school that goes far beyond the scope of his duties…
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Encouraging Students to Study Literature Isn’t a Problem Anymore With This Teacher’s Modern Approach
By Anne Cacherell Inspiring students on a different level, Mr. Mooney, an English teacher at High Tec High School in North Bergen, New Jersey, uses a whole new strategy to gain his students attention when conducting classes. He turned rapper Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly” album into educational material by utilizing some of its…
During a Washington School Shooting, One Hero Rose to the Occasion to Protect the Students
By Anne Cacherell On the morning of April 27, 2015, a 16-year old student armed with a handgun fired off two shots in the Commons Area of North Thurston High School in Lucy, Washington. Everyone panicked except for the quick-thinking military veteran and civic education teacher Brady Olson, who tackled and restrained the school shooter…
A Computer Program That Lets You Draw With Your Eyes?! You Must See This!
By Richard K. Noots Graham Fink was tired of his teacher telling him that he “needed to use his eyes more,” when drawing, so he decided to change the game of art. After slaving away on his computer for untold months, he finally developed a program that follows the focus of your eyes to determine what you are drawing….
This Teacher Returns One Assignment 20 Years Later & it’s Amazing
By Jack Day If there was a way to talk to yourself 20 years ago, would you be happy, or sad, or freaked out? One high school teacher named Bruce Farrer grants the closest thing to that experience to former students by returning to them 10 page letters he had them write to themselves. The…
