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Veronica Navarro | Friday, September 17, 2021
All Saint Mary’s students majoring in education are required to work in local schools to complete their fieldwork — around 700 total hours — before they graduate from the College and enter the workforce. Typically, fieldwork begins for education majors during their very first class in the department. In the education department’s introductory course, students
Trinity Reilly | Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Teachers around the country have been eagerly awaiting COVID-19 vaccinations. With new age groups and workers becoming eligible to receive the vaccine, the time has finally come for many in the South Bend area. The state of Indiana had already opened vaccines to teachers over the age of 50. Sarah Wagoner, third grade teacher at
Izzi Barrera | Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Citywide Classroom South Bend (CCSB) is a new initiative created by enFocus that is providing free internet access to students in the South Bend community during this unprecedented time. After receiving a grant of $1.8 million from the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) fund in September, CCSB has put $1.5 million toward providing internet access
Christopher Parker | Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Elizabeth Burman has been stitching together PPE since the beginning of the pandemic. “I could probably sew a mask in my sleep,” she said. Starting as a lone seamstress who volunteered with local charities, Burman has since tapped into the tri-campus community and organized the production of over 4,500 face masks for South Bend schools.
Alysa Guffey | Wednesday, September 16, 2020
As college students in the tri-campus community made their return to campus in late July and early August, St. Joseph County was already seeing an uptick in the number of daily coronavirus counts compared to the month of June. “At the end of June, [St. Joseph County] was averaging 15 new cases a day,” Dr.
Genevieve Coleman | Friday, August 14, 2020
Students and teachers across the country have been in the throes of new safety and learning regulations regarding safely returning to school during the coronavirus pandemic. Education students hoping to enter the profession at Saint Mary’s face the same challenges because of the required fieldwork in order to become licensed educators. Education department coordinator and
Letter to the Editor | Monday, March 2, 2020
Notre Dame does much good for our community. And South Bend, a city that is 26% African American and 15% Hispanic, has a future being quietly crushed. South Bend has a lead poisoning epidemic that exceeds Flint, Michigan, by some metrics. The response by city, county and state has been poorly organized. We have thus