A Teaching Legacy: How RealCare Baby® Is Shaping Generations of Learners
RealCare Baby 4 helps today’s classrooms deliver the most realistic infant care lessons yet. For nearly three decades, RealCare Baby has helped Mia Battistone’s Family & Consumer Sciences (FCS) students at Eastview High School in Apple Valley, MN, understand what it really takes to care for an infant. “I have been a RealCare Baby user […]
Transforming Childcare Education: How Hands-On Simulations Are Helping WI Students Prepare For Real-World Success
For over a decade, Marshfield High School Family & Consumer Sciences (FCS) Teacher Rae Ann Leonhardt has made it her mission to prepare her students for the future. Leonhardt’s dual-credit courses offer hands-on environments that prepare students to earn industry-recognized credentials. Leonhardt leverages a variety of tools to achieve her goals, from in-class and overnight […]
College Agriculture Science Program Uses Hands-on Tools to Bring Lessons to Life
When James Quick began teaching agriculture science at Surry Community College in North Carolina five years ago, the goal was to reignite the college’s agriculture science program, which had fallen to the wayside after the former head of the program retired. Since then, Quick, the lead agriculture science instructor, has worked hard to grow the […]
MN Uses High School Baby Project to Prepare Students for CDA Credential
Park Rapids Area High School in Minnesota is offering a new Child Development Associate (CDA) course to their juniors and seniors. These students will have the opportunity to work with RealCare Baby® infant simulators in a high school baby project as well as young children to earn a CDA credential through the class. The CDA […]
Using Hands-on Tools To Explore In-Demand Careers: How a NC County Engages Students in CTE
Guilford County Schools (GCS) in North Carolina recently acquired a variety of Realityworks learning aids for a series of Career Accelerator Summer Programs through federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds. The programs introduce students to in-demand careers in health science, agriculture, and trades. Some of the career and technical education (CTE) camps […]
Students Gain Real-World Experience with the NEW Child Care Simulation Program
“As a program, Family & Consumer Sciences (FCS) is transitioning from being ‘in the home’ to being career-based. And so that’s what we’ve been focusing on,” said Ponderosa High School FCS Teacher Letha Hougland. “This new child care simulation program just comes and does exactly that – like, exactly that – transitioning from teaching students […]
TikTok Teacher’s Hands-On Tools Recruit Students to Agriculture Classes
Nathan Anderson knew he wanted to be a teacher when he was a senior in high school and embarked on the necessary education as soon as he graduated. Now in his fourth year of teaching agriculture at Watertown-Mayer High School in Watertown, MN, Anderson teaches a variety of courses, including animal science, plant science, and […]
Using Hands-On Tools to Build Confidence: How Two Agriculture Teachers Hone Student Skills
“High school was really my first opportunity to have agriculture classes and then I realized plants were my thing,” said Katelynn Sibley, now one of the agriculture teachers who helps students discover similar passions. Sibley and Tracy Heinbuch, a fellow agriculture educator, teach ninth- through twelfth-grade students at Plymouth High School (PHS) in Plymouth, Wisconsin. […]
Awareness, Engagement, and Recruitment: NC CTE Program’s Trailer Helps Youth Explore Careers
When Harnett County Schools Career & Technical Education Director Lindsey Hardee (then the district’s school-to-career coordinator) began assisting with the implementation of their Career and Technical Education (CTE) program’s trailer, also called the trades trailer, she had no idea how much it would impact Harnett County’s students and community. “The community interest, the positive feedback, […]