With the widespread use of smartphones among teens and preteens, the district is finding a number of apps that are a distraction in the classroom and are being used for cyberbullying, sexting, and accessing pornography. Certainly not all popular apps are harmful or dangerous. Many can be used for ...
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Building a relationship of trust
Our Educator of the Week is Granger High math teacher Hyrum Okeson, who chooses to look beyond a student's current situation and focuses instead on what they can become. ...
Junior high kindness campaign advances virtues
Administrators and teachers at Bennion Junior High School are adding the words kindness, trust, honor, responsibility, and determination to the list of required vocabulary terms. As part of the “Kindness is Cool” campaign at Bennion, students will be introduced to a set of common virtues during the ...