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October 28, 2020\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 This year\u00a0<\/strong>has been a school year like none other!\u00a0 Despite the many challenges facing the educational system in the United States in the wake of COVID-19, the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative (WPDI) has continued, through its Domestic Harmonizer Program (DHP), to stand with our partner schools during the pandemic to support teachers and students using online instruction for our Conflict Resolution Education (CRE) curriculum. Teachers have responded with incredible resilience and creativity. An example of a high impact, innovative project this fall was created by Mr. Randy Poggio, a science teacher at Ball Jr. High School in Anaheim, California \u2013 one of our partner schools.<\/p>\n

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Recently, Mr. Poggio involved his 7th<\/sup>\u00a0grade science classes in project-based learning to understand the reality of COVID-19\u2019s infectious spread, using coding to create a simulation of disease transmission through contact.\u00a0 In this project, students were required to research data provided by public health sources, describing a community of their choice. He then challenged students to work with this data to outline the current state of COVID-19 cases if guidelines for reducing spread are followed or not followed.\u00a0\u00a0 The coding work provided the mathematical model to display the anticipated results. Wishing for students to grasp more complex dimensions of the process, Mr. Poggio invited WPDI to create content to complement his course, specifically focusing on defining human needs. Participating in all the online classes, the DHP team guest taught all online classes and elaborated on the concepts of conflict as unmet needs, with a total of 190 students ultimately completing the project.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0The work that Mr. Poggio has taken on with his students is truly exemplary.\u00a0 By involving students to make meaning out of the current state of living with COVID-19 using science and math standards and then adding complexity of understanding the conflict makes their learning powerfully real,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0says Karen DeVoogd, Conflict Resolution Education Trainer for WPDI.\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThe narrative that students will carry forward from this learning will stay with them forever.\u00a0 They are now experts in charting out the impact on human experiences from this pandemic.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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During the live sessions led by DHP, students were asked to reflect on their current experiences and how COVID-19 policies have impacted their needs positively and negatively. \u00a0\u00a0Students responded very openly with newly gained insight on human needs based on interactive technology that was used during the training. Students highlighted both positive and negative aspects of the pandemic as well as needs that were being both met and not met during this time.\u00a0 For example, a student wrote,\u00a0\u201cA positive thing is spending more time with my family.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 Another student commented that \u201ca challenge is having to attend school online when technology doesn\u2019t cooperate.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Other comments included\u00a0\u201ca challenge that we went through is that we ran out of food and other needed resources\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cone challenge I am having is that I am worried about my dad’s job and what will happen to it because he has worked at Disneyland for 30 years and lots of people are getting laid off from Disneyland.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 This project helped the students to look at their current situations in a broader context, learning to adopt more complex and nuanced approaches of their own.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Poggio offers some hope and insight during these unprecedented times.\u00a0\u201cThe world will lose life, but the Human Spirit will be invigorated, awakened to our connection to one another, but most importantly with nature and mother earth.\u00a0 2020 will be known for the virus for humans, but for Mother Earth for the beginning of new life and the awakening.\u00a0 Science will be of more value.\u00a0 This will be but a glimmer of this new life and awakening. Habitat loss, food sources, and our connectivity with Mother earth will be re-evaluated, and that this virus that took human life, gave life back to nature, and gave humans a new mindset, a new spirit.\u00a0 I hope that by the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, humans emerge from their homes with a new understanding for their relationship with the natural world and each other.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October 28, 2020\u00a0\u2013 This year\u00a0has been a school year like none other!\u00a0 Despite the many challenges facing the educational system in the United States in the wake of COVID-19, the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative (WPDI) has continued, through its Domestic Harmonizer Program (DHP), to stand with our partner schools during the pandemic to support… View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,10],"class_list":["post-3201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-peace-education","tag-peacebuilding"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWPDI Teams Up With Science Classes at Ball Jr. High to Help Students Deepen their Understanding of the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Impact on their Community - WPDI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wpdi.org\/news\/wpdi-teams-up-with-science-classes-at-ball-jr-high-to-help-students-deepen-their-understanding-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-its-impact-on-their-community\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WPDI Teams Up With Science Classes at Ball Jr. High to Help Students Deepen their Understanding of the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Impact on their Community - WPDI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"October 28, 2020\u00a0\u2013 This year\u00a0has been a school year like none other!\u00a0 Despite the many challenges facing the educational system in the United States in the wake of COVID-19, the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative (WPDI) has continued, through its Domestic Harmonizer Program (DHP), to stand with our partner schools during the pandemic to support... 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