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Students shape project's early stages
After her 5th grade class at the McCall School completed Need in Deed’s Information Gap activity, Joanna Bottaro’s students discovered that four issues attracted their attention: homelessness, animal abuse, poverty and urban blight. read more...
For this teacher, service-learning is “guided curiosity”
Joanna Bottaro thinks of service-learning as “guided curiosity,” a way to bring out students’ innate interests in order to develop lifelong learners. “It gives students a reason to learn and gets them involved in something new and exciting." read more...
NID launches Charter School Consortium
Need in Deed’s second Charter School Consortium workshop took place early October at FACTS in Chinatown. Fortified with spring rolls and dumplings, read more...