Appeared September 20, 2011
Published on the Elkhart Community Schools website

“Never in a million years did I think I’d be getting my master’s degree by traveling around the world,” said Pinewood Elementary School’s Holly O’Connell. But that is exactly what the second-grade teacher is doing.

O’Connell and a student from Belize

Danae’ Wirth, first row on the left, and her Project Dragonfly colleagues, in Trinidad

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Third year GFP student Jim Miller was selected as one of only 12 teachers to participate in PolarTREC (Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating), an educational research experience in which K-12 teachers participate in polar research, working closely with scientists as a pathway to improving science education.

Jim Miller shown inside a “pig,” a scrubber that helps clean the inside of the Alaskan pipeline

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Appeared June 30, 2011
Published in The Canfield Town Crier

Continuing her master’s program studies, one Canfield High School teacher will be spending her summer in class, so to speak. “We’ll be sleeping under the stars and bathing in the Sea of Cortez,” she said.

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