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Tag: Harvard Ed Portal
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Learning can be fun. Just ask these ‘Explorers.’
Harvard Ed Portal program offers skill-building activities for Allston-Brighton students in grades 2-8.
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Wrapping it up
Harvard Ed Portal’s fifth annual Allston-Brighton Winter Market is back as a virtual market again this year with the online shops of 41 local artisans offering unique gifts.
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How creative communities thrive in Allston-Brighton
Harvard Ed Portal’s Winter Market helps artists in its Allston-Brighton neighborhood grow and thrive through pandemic’s ever-changing landscape.
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The unique and beautiful await
Artists from Harvard’s Ed Portal worked from their homes, shops, and studios to amass a catalog of treasures for sale at the fourth-annual winter market.
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Baby, it’s cold outside
The Harvard Ed Portal partners with Action for Boston Community Development to collect winter coats for the community.
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Biologist Rob Lue, founding HarvardX faculty director, dies at 56
Rob Lue was professor of the practice in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, founding faculty director of HarvardX, faculty director of the Harvard Ed Portal, Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, UNESCO Chair on Life Sciences and Social Innovation, and faculty director and principal investigator…
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In painting others, Black artists discover a picture of self-care
Harvard’s Ed Portal uses art to kick off a conversation about self-care for people of color.
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When it comes to online learning, safety first
The Harvard Ed Portal and Harvard University IT partnered on a free Zoom event meant to address teachers’ and parents’ concerns about how much time in front of a computer is too much, how can people stay engaged while social distancing, and whether we should worry about children’s safety on the internet.
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Come on and Zoom, Zoom, Zoom a-Zoom
With COVID-19 keeping children out of theater camp, Creative Drama — Space Explorers, a free, weeklong summer camp put on by the American Repertory Theater and Harvard Ed Portal brought theater camp to them.
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At the Harvard Ed Portal’s Mural Club, ingenuity first
Instead of painting a mural together, this year students in the Harvard Ed Portal’s Mural Club produced individual works of art with virtual guidance from their instructors, local artist Chanel Thervil and Harvard undergraduate Gabi Maduro Salvarrey.
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Exploring from home
Harvard Ed Portal’s virtual field trips help students see the world.
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University community rallies to deal with COVID-19 crisis
Harvard faculty, students, researchers, and staff are working with hospitals, first responders, state and city leaders, and many more across Greater Boston to support the response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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The lessons of teaching
Harvard undergrads who mentor elementary, middle school and high school students at the Harvard Ed Portal in Allston say they learn as much as they teach.
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A season for exploration
At the third annual Summer Explorations series at the Harvard Ed Portal, local students of all ages experienced programs that enriched learning, stimulated curiosity, and explored everything from storytelling to ceramics to bike riding.
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How the mom-and-pop can compete in a changed marketplace
HBS teachers draw on 30 years of industry data at a Harvard Ed portal talk aimed at helping small business owners develop strategies to compete in a changed marketplace.
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Now more than ever, political discussion is critical, professor says
At an Ed Portal public lecture on “Driving Forces in American Government,” Kennedy School Professor Tom Patterson urged his audience to keep talking about politics.
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Learning to navigate the path to college
College & Career Conversations resource fair at the Ed Portal helps parents navigate a realistic path toward college.
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Want to do well? Then do good
Harvard Business School Professor Steven Rogers told an audience at the Harvard Ed Portal that identifying problems and creating ways to solve them can change society, especially in underserved communities.
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A dream realized, and paid forward
Allston resident and Harvard intern Jose Mendoza is giving back to the Ed Portal, which he credits for shaping him and his community.
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What I did on my Summer Explorations
A cross between camp and summer school, the Harvard Ed Portal program lets kids learn by having fun.
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Scientific salsa
A Summer Explorations program gives young students a hands-on (and tasty) lesson in science to both engage and inspire.
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Third-graders get creative
An Ed Portal exhibit celebrates an educational initiative between the Ed Portal, Harvard Art Museums, and Gardner Pilot Academy to create an experiential learning program for third-graders.
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Mouthwatering science
An Ed Portal cooking workshop explored the science behind aioli and ice cream.
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Paving the way to entrepreneurship
Harvard-based program exposes high school students to the excitement and challenges of entrepreneurship.
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The mystery of the brain examined
“Toward an Artificial Brain” brought the results of a Harvard-led effort to Allston with an Ed Portal discussion.
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Professor has Ed Portal audience vote on legalization of marijuana
A Harvard professor asked an Ed Portal audience to vote on Question 4, which would legalize and create a commission to regulate marijuana in Massachusetts, after they reviewed three very different viewpoints on the topic.
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The refugee crisis in black and white
For his latest exhibit, Nieman Fellow and photojournalist Maciek Nabrdalik followed refugees over several weeks to document their harrowing journey through the Mediterranean and Europe.
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Finding harmony in music and medicine
Physicians share how music shapes their lives and impacts their practice when working with patients and even in the operating room.
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Professor offers basics of bioethics and the law in 90 minutes
Law Professor Glenn Cohen led an interactive one-night class at the Harvard Ed Portal in Allston that focused on the complicated questions surrounding the legal, medical, and ethical aspects of bioethics.
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Youngsters find learning never slows down at the Ed Portal
As part of the first-ever Summer Explorations program at the Harvard Ed Portal, students enriched their learning experience. The program helps halt summer learning loss, which many experts say is a key step in closing the achievement gap.
