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Kansas high school students are getting closer look at what it takes to be a teacher at the Kansas Future Teacher Academy in Emporia June 5-9.

Educators are being offered opportunities to increase their skill and knowledge through workshops and a conference provided this summer through The Teachers College at Emporia State University.

Fifty-seven Emporia State University students from The Teachers College and one retiring faculty member received special recognition at The Teachers College in May.

The transformer that powers Visser Hall blew yesterday afternoon, and will not be able to be fixed until the weekend. Students, faculty and staff of The Teachers College will be displaced temporarily.

Raising money and awareness for cystic fibrosis is the goal of the ninth annual Laps 4 Landon event at Emporia State’s Welch Stadium on Tuesday, April 19.

A project that will help special educators and students in schools in underserved areas of Kansas recently received an $84,000 grant from the Kansas Board of Regents.

Academic skills, employability and citizenship skills, technology, all under the shadow of school financing — how are Kansans to determine what K-12 schools must do to prepare its children for their lives after high school graduation?

Masons across the state of Kansas are partnering with Emporia State University to create the Kansas Masonic Literary Center (KMLC) on the Emporia State campus. The initiative was publicly announced by the Masons last week during the 160th Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge of Kansas. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed a proclamation to recognize the special day, March 18, 2016, as Kansas Masons’ Day.

Five in 2016 so far, 18 in 2015, 36 in 2014 — in total, more than 100 incidents have occurred in the U.S. in the last 10 years involving guns, students and schools. Some of these were suicides, some were mass shootings, some were the result of arguments — all affected the schools, educators, and surviving students.

The Department of School Leadership/Middle and Secondary Teacher Education at Emporia State University was recently recognized as one of the best online programs of its kind in the nation.