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We think it's important to highlight teachers in our community who are making a difference in the lives of students. Kathy Kennedy has been teaching at Washington High School for twenty years. She has served students in the special education department for years and her impact has been extraordinary! For more information visit: http://www.doe.in.gov/toy and http://www.michigan.gov/mde/0,4615,7-140-5683_13651_38018---,00.html Help recognize an Excellent Michiana Teacher: educationcount@wnit.org

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Kathy Downey homeschools her children and shares her journey with reporter, Monica Murphy.

Date uploaded: February 13, 2017

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- October 19th, 2022
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  This week on Education Counts Michiana we learn about the Bremen Library's reading challenge of 100 Books Before High School. We meet the Ivy Tech Dual Credit Teacher of the year. We learn how Citywide Classroom is expanding to offer digital equity to 200 additional families at School City of Mishawaka. We also follow up with 574 Stories initiative and witness the anthology created through the project.
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  In this episode, we learn about the enFocus Fellowship Program Head Start and Triple P, New Life Creations in Marshall County and the summer program for kids at The History Museum.
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  Education Counts Michiana features great ideas in education. This week, discover about a creative art and writing program about the Holocaust, see how blended learning is the evolution of education and see how digital escape rooms stimulate learning.
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  This week's highlight episode features Soup of Success, the value of hosting foreign exchange high school students and an after school English learning program at La Casa de Amistad. We also highlight an elementary project called Poptoc, Girls Ambitious about Learning Science, Brookview Montessori and Super Science Saturdays.
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  This week, we're highlighting some of the best ideas we've discovered in April. Join us for a look at work based learning, how MOVE helps students with mobility issues, reading to therapy dogs and how Lake Michigan College is filling the truck driver shortage gap. We also spotlight GoBabyGo!, Digital Storm and a high school automotive refinishing training.
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  This week on Education Counts Michiana, we feature a digital storm produced by students at Lincoln Junior High in Plymouth, see the benefits of reading to a therapy dog at the New Buffalo Township Library, learn about education inclusion and venture to a classroom of engineering and design students for GoBabyGo!
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  On this week's episode of Education Counts, we draw inspiration from students at Southwestern Michigan College in their creative art process, learn how to foster courageous dialogues in schools, experience what makes Positive Outlook empowering to students and get a behind-the-scenes look at #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence.
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  Education Counts Michiana seeks programs and initiatives in education that inspire the community and engage the educator and student. This week we feature a robotics program at South Bend Career Academy, mental health & wellbeing training for teachers, how the MOVE program in enabling students with mobility limitations and experts share ideas on how to teach like a park ranger.
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  To further their mission of providing education to kids and their parents, the Elkhart and St. Joseph County Head Start Consortium and Positive Parenting Program have partnered up. Triple P provided training to several of Head Start's Family and Child Specialists to bring them up to Primary Care Level 3. This level of intervention is designed to be delivered one-on-one with parents to address various topics.
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