Monthly Archive: June 2016
It has been illuminating following the story in The World of Don Reddington, the Winthrop resident and former Wenatchee CPA, who has been writing about his experiences with Alzheimers. The stories were originally...
Transcript of Sebastian Junger’s TED talk: “Our lonely society makes it difficult to come home from war” I worked as a war reporter for 15 years before I realized that I really had a problem. There...
There’s nothing quite like a provocative TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) talk to force us to confront different ways of thinking about the world around us. Wenatchee, you will recall, hosted a local TED...
If you want proof of the power of how the Mariachi program in the Wenatchee School District changes lives, all you need to do is talk to students who are involved, hear their stories...
This provocative powerpoint describes in clear detail the challenge that we face and the opportunity we have as a community to bridge the opportunity gap. We can fix this in the Wenatchee Valley and...
We have a critical educational challenge in the Wenatchee Valley and a collaborative effort has been launched to develop a creative, community-based solution. About 75 percent of children entering kindergarten in Wenatchee and East Wenatchee...
Imagine what would be possible in our valley if we could bridge the digital opportunity divide that separates kids who have access to technology from those in poverty who do not. That powerful and...
While the Maker Movement has become the newfangled approach for engaging students in hands-on learning, the Eastmont School District has been delivering the same sort of experiences in a systematic way to its students...
When Sam Monson was reading Make Magazine in the 7th grade, he got so excited about the possibility of having a community-based Maker Space that he decided to take action. A Maker Space is...
The youth-driven Maker Movement in the Wenatchee Valley received important early support from the City of Wenatchee, but in a most unusual way. City officials became advocates, supporters and facilitators rather than the accustomed...