Susan Atkinson: Connections Made

Susan Atkinson: Connections Made

Susan Atkinson, with Herbert Green Middle School in Placerville, California, will be the first to tell you about the value of student travel. After all, this teacher of seventh- and eighth-grade Social Studies, Technology, and Leadership has been taking students from...
Lessons from a Battlefield

Lessons from a Battlefield

“Once in a lifetime trip.” That’s how Isaiah Duffield, a ninth-grader at Decorah High School in Decorah, Iowa, and a recipient of the SYTA Youth Foundation Road Scholarship, described his excursion to Washington, D.C., with his eighth-grade class...