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Snapping traps, coyote calls, tall tales: Summit students captivated by mountain man

Feb 02, 2022 11:59AM ● By Julie Slama

“Through showing and telling them about this style of life, they’re learning without even realizing it.”

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Students get a look into manufacturing principles, careers at Rock West Composites

Jan 13, 2022 11:38AM ● By Julie Slama

“One of the cool things they make is a lightweight, portable X-ray machine, that…is able to use on football fields as well as Third World countries,” said Christy Bond, Jordan High work-based learning coordinator who escorted approximately 25 students from Canyons School District high schools through Rock West Composites in West Jordan on National Manufacturing Day.

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Canyons honors those who provide excellence, commitment, leadership

Jan 10, 2022 03:16PM ● By Julie Slama

The district's Apex Awards honor everyone from teachers and administrators to volunteers and support staff.

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Capitol field trip includes surprise encounter for some Draper Elementary fourth-graders

Jan 03, 2022 02:32PM ● By Julie Slama

While on a scavenger hunt at the capitol, a group of fourth-graders asked a “really nice, tall” man for some help. That man turned out to be the governor.

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Canyons School District-UVU partnership pairs teacher-interns with mentors for success in classrooms

Dec 16, 2021 09:22AM ● By Julie Slama

As an intern-teacher mentor at Willow Springs Elementary, Christine Wirthlin tells her interns, “Let me help you not make the same mistakes that I made” to become successful in the classroom.

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Channing Hall students learn to appreciate land, its history, geography near Moab

Dec 16, 2021 09:18AM ● By Julie Slama

Twenty-four Channing Hall eighth-grade students began to understand the geology and geography in an area 20 miles from Moab through hands-on activities that were intermixed with hiking, river rafting and sleeping in tipis.

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Many Juan Diego Catholic High international students remain in Utah, devoted to academics during pandemic

Nov 22, 2021 10:42AM ● By Julie Slama

Many international students choose to attend Juan Diego Catholic High to increase their odds of being accepted into a higher education institution, which meant not going home during the pandemic.

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Draper teen promotes inclusion in art, presents work to Utah’s First Lady

Nov 22, 2021 10:40AM ● By Julie Slama

When the inclement weather washed out many of the plans at the unified soccer state championship and Utah First Lady Abby Cox’s Show Up Initiative, one Draper teenager didn’t let that dampen her plans.

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Canyons’ educators form friendships, set goals, endure pelting rain in Goldilocks bike ride

Nov 01, 2021 02:25PM ● By Julie Slama

Despite rain pelting down, a group of Canyons educators rode their third annual Goldilocks bike ride together to complete their goal although “we did joke about calling an Uber,” said one teacher.

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What you didn’t know about school custodians

Oct 04, 2021 11:58AM ● By Jet Burnham

Have you thanked your custodian today?

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