May 2018 | Bear Essential News

Team Sports Have Positive Impact

May 25, 2018

Team sports offer kids a great opportunity to build social kills key to growing up.

Carsten Fuller

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She Tried Many Jobs Before She Decided on Teaching

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Ashley Korchmaros teaches fourth grade at Acacia Elementary and is the Bear Essential News and Dr JAWS Orthodontists Teacher of the Month! Read more

Chess Is a Great Team Sport

May 21, 2018

Chess helps your brain. It’s a team sport and it also is very individual.

Sidney Etter

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Teachers in Arizona Are Seeing Red

May 21, 2018

On Monday May 2, teachers and families from Tucson went to Phoenix to march on the Arizona State Capitol. On Tuesday, April 24, several TUSD schools had Walk-Ins. A walk-in is when teachers and families walk around the perimeter of their school.

Emma Juarez-Jarillo

Hannah Watson

Anissa Madrid

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Cape Town "Day Zero" Postponed Until 2019

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Cape Town, South Africa, water crisis downgraded and postponed until 2019. But will the wet season beat back the now-three-year drought? Read more

Arizona Teacher Walkout Ends— Schools Reopen!

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Schools returned to normal for hundreds of thousands of students after the six-day #RedforEd walkout. But have teachers gotten what they wanted? Read more