For the past seven years, students from the Palma School in Salinas, California have been part of a book club at an unlikely place—Soledad State Prison. Mia Mirassou and Jim Micheletti founded the book club called “Exercises In Empathy.” Jim…
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Inmates Work To Raise Money For Student’s Tuition – GNSOTD Fri, Jan. 8th 2020
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Communities Supporting Each Other With Desks For Students – GNSOTD Wed, Sept. 23rd
Parents across North America, trying to give their children the best chance with at home learning, are finding the same trouble; a shortage of desks. Across the U.S. people are finding solutions. In Columbus Ohio the non-profit Impact Community Action…
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He Worked His Way To Harvard – GNSOTD Wed, July 8th 2020
If you saw Rehan Staton doing his old day job; working for the Bates Trucking & Trash Removal sanitation company, you might make the mistake of thinking he didn’t work hard, or wasn’t very bright, so that’s why he was…
Waterloo Teen Makes Swim Club More Accessible – GNSOTD Wednesday, Dec 11th, 2019
Youth Accessibility Leader, and student at the University of Waterloo, Liliana Paroski is a former competitive swimmer who wanted to help children with autism or ADHD more easily participate in the sport. Thanks to a Federal grant she was able to do just…
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Thanks To Donation Sick Student Has Unique Return To School – GNSOTD Friday, Nov 22nd, 2019
A Long Island teen, from Manhasset, New York, who was diagnosed with leukemia last May, has been unable to attend school. But through the kindness of his community, his peers, the innovation of technology, and a $6000.00 donation by the…
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Student Election Results 2019
The election in Canada took place yesterday where more than 17 million Canadians cast their votes for the leaders they thought best capable of leading the country. But the adults of voting age were not the only ones exercising their…
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Later School Times Now Law In California
While there are some early risers out there, quite often as kids get older they find getting up early to be more difficult; and there is some science to back that up. The American Academy of Pediatrics released a study which recognized…
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Student Helps Fellows With Supply Closet – GNSOTD Tuesday, Sept 3rd 2019
An eighth grader from Louisiana is making sure his classmates have everything they need this school year. Thirteen-year-old Chase Neyland-Square, a student at Port Allen Middle School in Louisiana, has created a closet in his middle school filled with clothes…
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Principal Helps Student With Autism Through Last Day Of School – GNSOTD Tuesday June 11th 2019
There are some professions which are more than just a job, they are a calling, a vocation if you will. Ministry is an example of such, if you enter the Ministry because you wish to only work one day a…
One Student Inspires School To Learn New Skill – GNSOTD Monday June 3rd 2019
At Dayton Consolidated School in Maine, one student has inspired a big change to the curriculum. Morey Belanger, a 6-year-old kindergartener, is the school’s first deaf student. This meant there was a need for a different sort of communication, and rather…
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