LEF6 hours ago1 minLEF Report, Winter 2021Check out the latest issue of the LEF Report! This edition's articles include: - Winter Is Coming, How to Deal with the Impending Stress...
LEF7 days ago1 minEight Ways New Schools InnovateBY Tom Vander Ark, FORBES. The rapid global shift to hybrid and remote learning—with lots of versions and variability—provoked renewed in...
LEFNov 181 minThe Craft of Teaching ConfidenceBy: KRISTINA RIZGA, The Atlantic. Judith Harper on getting students to take risks—in literature class and in life. Most of my students a...
LEFNov 131 minCelebrating Neurodiversity in the ClassroomBY KRISTINA RIZGA, THE ATLANTIC. Tracy Murray on helping kids develop emotional and social skills. racy Murray has witnessed a lot of cha...
LEFNov 111 minNew Milford High School – Put Local On Your TrayFrom: Rural Schools Collaborative. New Milford High School is one of the many Connecticut schools committed to sourcing local food for ca...
LEFNov 31 minHow to Talk About the Election With Your KidsBy Melinda Wenner Moyer, NYTimes. With the election just a few days away, I have transformed into an absolute and terrible mess of a moth...
LEFNov 21 minSeeking Area Students: 2020 Model United Nations! HOW IT WORKS: Each student assumes the role of a UN delegate. After researching the political, economic, and diplomatic realities and st...
LEFNov 21 minGet Students Connected to OutdoorsJoin CFPA on Tuesday, November 10th from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. via Zoom for CT Forest and Park Associations’s 125th Annual Meeting. REGISTER H...
LEFOct 301 minHome Alone Safely SeriesNov. 2, 3, 4, and 5, 2020. 4:30 - 6 p.m. EST. This online series will help youth learn how to keep themselves safe as well as teach them ...
LEFOct 291 minHalloween Tips for Spooky (and Safe) FunBY Aaron Milstone, M.D., M.H.S., Johns Hopkins Medicine. Candy, cute costumes and family fun: It’s Halloween! “Kids need something to loo...
LEFOct 271 minSOTG Partners with Letters Are CharactersSchool on the Green, a non-profit parent cooperative preschool partners with Caroline Wilcox-Ugurlu and her Letters are Characters litera...
LEFOct 261 minNice White ParentsFROM Serial and the New York Times, Podcast. We know American public schools do not guarantee each child an equal education. Two decades ...
LEFOct 231 minBOTTLE CAP CHALLENGE: HOW RUMSEY HALL'S CONTRIBUTING TO OUR PLANET'S HEALTHIn this era of COVID-19, we as a planet are consuming more single-use plastics than ever. That means even more bottle caps are ending up ...
LEFOct 211 minEducation for Cultural SurvivalBY KRISTINA RIZGA, THE ATLANTIC. Josephine Tatauq Bourdon on integrating Indigenous knowledge and language into Western curriculum. Life ...
LEFOct 211 minSeeking Students: Virtual Robotics CompetitionYour galactic journey is about to start! Program a virtual robot to help it progress through different worlds. Each world contains its ow...
LEFOct 191 minFewer Students Are Going To Community College, Despite High UnemploymentFrom NPR. Enrollment at U.S. community colleges has dropped nearly 8% this fall, newly released figures show, part of an overall decline ...
LEFOct 161 minFinalists In The NPR Student Podcast ChallengeFrom NPR. Coronavirus, homework, sports, climate change: Working in the midst of a nationwide school shutdown, high school and middle sch...
LEFOct 141 minTeaching Kids to Love ScienceBY: KRISTINA RIZGA, THE ATLANTIC. Deborah Cornelison on motivating students who don’t want a career in STEM. Deborah Cornelison is happy ...
LEFOct 122 minRUMSEY'S STEM PROGRAM GETS A BOOST FROM CT SCIENCE FAIR WINNER JUSTIN WANGJustin Wang '21, who was awarded with the third place middle school certificate in the 2020 Connecticut Science and Engineering Fair (CSE...
LEFOct 91 minReversing The 'Brain Drain' In Rural AmericaNPR Podcast. Affordable real estate. A quieter place to raise a family. Easier access to nature. Polling shows that four out of every fiv...
