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Tonyaa Weathersbee

  • Hardin Chair of Excellence, Department of Journalism and Strategic Media, University of Memphis
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Q&A: Why this Memphis ELA teacher helped his students start a farmer’s market

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By Tonyaa Weathersbee
| Youth Today Verified
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters. Jeromy Payne’s forebears grew crops in Senatobia, Mississippi, so he always had a link to the land. Now Payne is using that ancestral connection to teach reading to third graders at John P. Freeman Optional School in Memphis. The 30-year-old English Language Arts (ELA) the kids wanted to get outside more, so they renovated the learning garden.
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Newark expands use of AI, pushes school building needs, Superintendent Roger León said

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By Jessie Gomez Verified, Tonyaa Weathersbee, Melanie Asmar Verified, Azia Ross
| Chalkbeat Verified
Sign up for Chalkbeat Newark’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system. When Newark Public Schools opens its doors to roughly 40,000 students next month, the district will expand the use of an AI program in schools and implement solutions to ongoing facilities needs, Superintendent Roger León said in a wide-ranging interview this week.
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This Memphis third grade teacher won a national award by turning a reading lesson into a farming project

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By Tonyaa Weathersbee, Melanie Asmar Verified, Azia Ross, Haley Miller
| Chalkbeat Verified
How do teachers captivate their students? Here, in a feature we call How I Teach, we ask great educators how they approach their jobs. Jeromy Payne’s forebears grew crops in Senatobia, Mississippi, so he always had a link to the land. Now Payne is using that ancestral connection to teach reading to third graders at John P. Freeman Optional School in Memphis. The 30-year-old English Language Arts and social studies teacher accomplishes that through project-based learning, or PBL.
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