Jefferson Medical Center Offers Health Programs at Anna Mae Reedy Senior Center
WVU Medicine Jefferson Medical Center is joining the Jefferson County Council on Aging to provide health and wellness educational programs for Jefferson County older adults. The goal of both organizations is to enhance the quality of life of older adults. The health professional from Jefferson Medical Center will assist JCCOA in their mission to help […]
Mined Minds’ Unique Workforce Training
By Lillian Graning Mined Minds began with the goal of helping one person transition to a new career. That person was Marvin, a coal miner who was worried about how he would feed his family if the mine where he worked closed. He is now a professional software developer, delivering projects for clients and helping […]
Financial Education Made Easy: Fifth Third Bank Offers West Virginians Money Management Tips
By Bob Welty As students across West Virginia complete another successful fall semester, it is the ideal time to highlight the importance of a subject that Fifth Third Bank is determined to ensure everyone in its communities is learning—financial education. The need to know about how to manage money starts even before graduating from high […]
A Case for Nature-Based Education
By JoEllen Zacks One of the newest trends in education is also one of the oldest. Nature-based learning is beginning to take root in West Virginia as a growing number of schools take the classroom outdoors to give students hands-on learning opportunities and context to their academic work. They’re rediscovering a truth espoused by the […]
Repealing & Replacing Common Core: West Virginia Strives for Best-Practice Education Standards
By Jessica Wintz-Adams West Virginia’s public education system has had its share of state and national headlines in recent years. When the Mountain State’s ranking in national reports is splashed across newspapers and scrolled across the bottom of screens calling it one of the country’s worst in educating public school students, fingers point in various […]
