A skill learned, a concept is mastered, and a badge is the reward. It’s a simple, beautiful concept present in all areas of our culture, but it’s been less prevalent in our classrooms. Until now. A school district in Pennsylvania has thrown grades[...]
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Watch the Human Brain Come to Life in This Stunning Piece of Art
Our understanding of how the human brain connects, stores, and processes information is really just beginning, but there’s new data that suggests the way our neurons connect has a few more dimensions than we might have imagined. That’s a lot to wrap[...]
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Winnipeg’s “Go to the Waterfront” Campaign Opens Trail
The City of Winnipeg is working to make their neighborhoods stronger and more resilient, encouraging people and families to get out and be active through the “Go to the Waterfront” initiative. Here’s the direct quote from the Winnipeg Free Press article on the[...]
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The most forward-thinking, future-proof college in America teaches every student the exact same stuff
There are few debates raging more loudly in North Dakota and nationally than the one over higher education, its value, and its future. But one college has maintained it’s role and is now emerging as a leader in producing capable students, and[...]
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What to Expect From the Future of Server Farm Design
As we sit here in North Dakota trying to imagine how to reinvent and diversify our economy, the amount of information stored on computers quietly doubles. As that happens, the server farms that store that data become an ever more important cog[...]
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Opioid epidemic is swamping U.S. hospitals with 1.3M ER trips, hospitalizations
The opioid drug crisis is one of those issues that might not hit home unless you have a personal experience with a family member or friend, but the trickle-down impacts of the problem are effecting all of us in less obvious ways.[...]
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Crowded Waters Require Courteous Boaters
No matter where in North Dakota you call home, finding a place to wet a line or relax on a boating excursion is not too far away. It’s kind of an interesting thought, as the state has more waters than ever to[...]
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Minnesota State Fair announces 31 new foods, 4 new vendors
“Breakfast Buddy Bowl: Waffle bowl filled with hash browns, maple syrup, scrambled eggs, cheddar cheese and bacon, and topped with a biscuit, country sausage gravy and green onions. LuLu’s Public House, West End Market, south of the Schilling Amphitheater.” This is just[...]
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The Story One Elementary School Reinventing itself
For one elementary school in New Hampshire, the status quo was no longer an option. Plummeting test scores, high staff turnover, low morale, and an ongoing community opioid crisis were creating challenges in the classroom. The solution was what is described as[...]
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Are You a Magnet for Mosquitoes?
When it comes to mosquitoes, we either know the person or we assume we are the person that gets bit more often than everyone else. It’s a phenomenon that we know little about — at least scientifically, but one research study is[...]
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Resident Perception of Souris River Less Than Favorable
Over the winter, The Friends of the Souris River (@sourisfriends) conducted survey of Minot residents’ perceptions of the river. As was expected, people in Minot view the river in a less-than-favorable light. The full news release from the Friends of the Souris[...]
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How do we retain talent? We can start by supporting it!
I hope you caught the Minot Daily’s editorial a couple days ago on retaining talent. If you didn’t, go back and read it. In my mind, this is one of the bigger must-solve challenges facing Minot. North Dakota ingenuity, common sense, and[...]
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New digital citizenship curriculum is an idea worth copying
Here in North Dakota, we occasionally dismiss outside ideas — particularly those from more liberal-leaning parts of the country — because those places don’t identify as closely with our values. Sometimes that’s good; sometimes that’s bad. The story below comes from the Washington[...]
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Evidence for a New Economic Development Model?
Economic growth, economic diversity, these are buzzwords in North Dakota and in Minot right now. The City’s NDR application talks about it; our consultant on the project, CDM Smith, even has a $300,000 budget to create an ‘Economic Development Strategic Plan for[...]
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Bismarck High School Solves IT Challenges with Tech Club
Bismarck’s Legacy High School is on the newer end of the spectrum, but it’s not just the building that has a different feel — there’s also some new approaches to education. One example, instead of employing an IT staff to take care[...]
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Initiative to Fix First Ave Getting Underway
If you’ve ever negotiated the potholes along the road that connects the Amtrak Station and the areas to the East including downtown, you know that the road — while difficult to travel – is often worth the effort because it’s such a[...]