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High school can be hard. Here’s how one teacher helps her students skate through it

The past two years of this pandemic have been especially difficult for students, who have experienced major disruptions to both their education and social lives. In a special program that premieres Tuesday, NewsHour’s Student Reporting Labs team is exploring how many young people are dealing with the new normal. Here’s a look at how one teacher has taken an unconventional approach to learning.

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PBS NewsHour

Asking good questions and telling powerful stories: A Q&A with Student Reporting Labs partners

Julie Tiedens is in the business of telling good stories and developing informed citizens. As a Black River Falls High School English teacher and student media advisor for PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs, her name is always the final one attached to Student Reporting Labs (SRL) stories as a testament of her behind-the-scenes work with students in every step of the journalistic process.

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PBS Wisconsin

Psychologist reveals the best way schools, students can prepare to respond to shootings

2021 has been the deadliest year for school shootings in the past four years. Shootings have also led to copycat threats, including after the November school shooting in Oxford, Michigan.17-year-old student Micah Martin from the PBS NewsHour’s Student Reporting Labs network talked to psychologist and school shooting expert, Peter Langman, about steps schools can take to deal with those threats.

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PBS NewsHour

Black Women on Body Discrimination, From Colorism to Natural Hair Discrimination

In this op-ed, Nairobi Williese Barnes explains why she made a video to share Black women’s stories about body discrimination.

Ever since I was a little girl, I was self-conscious of my Black features because I faced so much criticism from society.

At 5 years old, I remember my mom desperately taking me to hair salons across the Bay Area. I was denied every time, hearing other women tell my mother that my hair was “too much,” “too thick,” or “too unmanageable.” It broke her heart and damaged my self-esteem.

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Teen Vogue