Show #13
Initial Air Dates:
March 22 at 6:30 pm
March 27at 7 am

Tools of the Mind - Imagine a pre-k/kindergarten school located in a converted bank building in Passaic with the playground located on the top level of the garage! Not your typical school. Passaic School #16 also uses a program called "Tools of the Mind". It fosters the cognitive development of young children in relation to early literacy learning. The project is the result of collaborative work between Russian and American education researchers.

Community Colleges - Bergen Community College in Paramus and Hackensack is one of 19 Community Colleges in New Jersey that serve over 120,000 students each year. The college students either go directly into rewarding careers in hundreds of fields, or they are given a solid foundation for a four-year degree at a college or university.

Dance Works - The Morris County School of Technology offers three academies; one is the Academy for Visual and Performing Arts which is housed at the Boonton High School campus. Randy James, a guest artist through a NJ State Council on the Arts Artist-In-Education grant, will teach students the art and craft of choreography, and professional repertory from his company Randy James Dance Works. For more information, go to http://www.mcvts.org/arts_acad/vis_perform_arts_overview.htm.

Teacher of the Year - As an active parent in her son's school, Diane Cummins was inspired to return to school to become a teacher. Twenty years later she is not only the head of the English Department at Clearview Regional School District in Gloucester County, she is also New Jersey's Teacher of the Year. Committed to teaching the basics, Cummins never forgets to educate the whole child, with an emphasis on compassion.