The Northwood Music Department presents it’s Annual Holiday Benefit Concert for our own Chatham Outreach Alliance (CORA) Food Pantry on Thursday, December 11 at 7 o’clock in the evening in the Benjamin J. Smith Auditorium on the Northwood campus. Admission is free when you bring a canned good or staple. The concert is part of the largest food drive of the year for CORA and this community service activity by the Northwood musicians is, (if my ca… Continue

Edutopia has posted a new article and video, "Community-Built School: Working Together to Make a Change"

It touches on lots of issues near and dear: New School Construction, Parent-Community Involvement, Collaborative Learning, Modern School Design, Effective Leadership, Techology in Schools. Take a look and help see if there are strategies we can use here in Chatham County.

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There are some great articles in this month's Edutopia I want to point you too. That's the publication/organization of the George Lucas Educational Foundation. These articles provide some examples of great work and innovative ideas that motivate kids, provide valuable training and skills, utilize community resources, and provide multiple strategies to support the programs.

Take a look.

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NHS’ Arts Education Department is once again planning a dynamic season of band competitions, choral and drama
productions, visual arts exhibits and dance concerts. Join us! Buy an ad or become a sponsor for this year’s arts programs. Business and community support makes an important statement to our students and is essential for the continued growth and success of arts education at Northwood.

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This fall, NHS will print 4450 programs for the entire year. Each production will… Continue

The Dana Foundation has posted an interesting interview with Michael S. Gazzaniga, director of the UC-Santa Barbara SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind, Learning, Arts and the Brain. He led the three-year, seven university consortium that issued the report of the same name.

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From this week's Public Ed Digest, four articles related to family/community invol… Continue