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  • How Denmark Got Its Children Back to School So Soon After Lockdown

    Emma Firth
    2020-05-29 13:42:29 UTC
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    May 28, 2020 |

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    Response Location: Denmark

    Starting in mid-April, Denmark welcomed its students back to school with new hand washing stations, extra sinks, spaced out desks, and some classes outside. After initial hesitance from some parents, the thorough approach and lack of resulting COVID-19 cases have won over the majority of families.

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  • India's first 'green' village adapts to life without tourists

    Anne Pinto-Rodrigues
    2020-06-03 15:45:47 UTC
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    May 28, 2020 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: India, Khonoma, Nagaland

    Despite the lockdown and loss of tourism income due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the village of Kohonoma in India has been able to maintain a high level of food security for its people. Because of previous legal changes and grant money, villagers were able to change their lifestyle to support the community’s tourism industry and preserve its sustainable agriculture practices. Village leaders are hopeful that their conservation and sustainable development efforts will continue post-pandemic and will encourage other communities to do the same.

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  • Cinéma chez soi : le pari des salles indépendantes lyonnaises au temps de l'épidémie

    Elise Moreau
    2021-07-08 20:11:07 UTC
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    May 27, 2020 |

    Médiacités |

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    Response Location: France, Lyon

    Durant le confinement, des salles de cinéma indépendantes ont fait le pari d'organiser des projections virtuelles à domicile.

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  • Campo Verde: la cuarentena con canasta de alimentos y una agencia de empleo virtual

    Ivone Juárez
    2020-06-08 19:22:09 UTC
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    May 27, 2020 |

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    Response Location: Bolivia, La Paz

    En un suburbio al sur de La Paz, una comunidad de vecinos creó Campo Verde, una iniciativa para ayudar a las familias pobres a tener la comida necesaria cada mes durante la pandemia. A través de un nuevo grupo de Facebook, se coordinan para ayudar a tantas familias como sea posible, mientras que los últimos todavía esperan una ayuda prometida del Gobierno que dura demasiado. Este artículo explica cómo se creó Campo Verde y cómo funciona.

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  • Meals on the bus go round and round

    Tom Hallberg
    2020-06-05 20:40:29 UTC
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    May 27, 2020 |

    Jackson Hole News & Guide |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Wyoming

    The Sweetwater County school district in Southeastern Wyoming is distributing meals to students around the county, while addressing obstacles some families may face due to lack of transportation or conflicting work schedules. With the assistance of federal funding, the district developed bus routes and pick-up locations based on the degree of need in order to deliver more meals.

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  • Enseñar a leer y escribir en casa: cómo se las ingenian las familias de un millón y medio de niños y niñas

    Stella Bin
    2020-06-08 19:22:11 UTC
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    May 27, 2020 |

    Red/Acción |

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    Response Location: Argentina

    Este informe muestra cómo los maestros de educación temprana se ocupan de cuidar a sus alumnos a través de Internet en el año en que sus estudiantes aprenden a leer. Las madres se convierten en maestras y las maestras guían todo digitalmente.

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  • A collective approach to distance teaching

    Sierra Hubbard
    2020-06-28 22:04:55 UTC
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    May 27, 2020 |

    Concord Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Manchester, New Hampshire

    When schools across New Hampshire, and the U.S., suspended in-person classes as a result of the pandemic, each developed its own way of dealing with a new teaching landscape, including Beech Street Elementary in Manchester. Instead of having teachers individually their class, the school took a "collective approach" and had teachers work as a team, with each teacher in charge of one specific lesson, to deliver the lessons to all students within the same grade. The school also accommodated ELL students by relying on a translation app, and used social media platforms to communicate with parents.

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  • Some Countries Have Brought New Cases Down To Nearly Zero. How Did They Do It?

    Jason Beaubien
    2020-05-30 19:32:18 UTC
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    May 27, 2020 |

    KPBS Public Media |

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    Response Location: New Zealand

    Taking swift action, quickly banning all incoming visitors, remaining apolitical, articulating a coherent and straightforward plan to follow, and connecting with citizens by being approachable and appealing to their sense of duty to protect their fellow country-people are the strategies taken by those countries that have better prevented or most quickly contained the spread of Covid-19. Some countries still see frustration among the public, but for the most part these are the components that have led to a positive response from everyday citizens.

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  • The disaster recovery groups helping rural North Carolina weather COVID-19

    Antionette Kerr
    2020-06-08 17:14:04 UTC
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    May 27, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    Mobilized to help North Carolina’s second-poorest county recover from two major hurricanes over the past four years, the Robeson County Disaster Recovery Coalition pivoted to provide COVID-19 relief and brace for the possibility of a hurricane during the pandemic. The coalition and other small nonprofits have filled gaps left by state-run relief efforts that either wasted federal aid or failed to take advantage of available aid. During the pandemic, the groups have distributed personal protective equipment and educated a region hard-hit by both kinds of natural disaster.

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  • House-Bound RV Owners Loan Their Idle Vehicles To Frontline Workers In Need

    Stephanie O'Neill
    2020-09-11 14:22:47 UTC
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    May 27, 2020 |

    LAist |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    A chance encounter sparked by a Facebook post led to the creation of RVs 4 MDs, a Facebook group pairing donated recreational vehicles for front-line medical workers who needed to distance themselves from their families while still living at home. Created in late March, the group in its first two months matched 1,460 workers with donated temporary housing. The arrangements can be awkward, with parents camped out in the family home's driveway, unable to have physical contact with their children. But they have enabled medical workers to stay connected with their families at no cost.

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  • Solutions journalism…
    • Describes a response to a problem and how it works.
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  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is a curated, searchable database of solutions journalism stories — rigorous reporting about responses to social problems. We vet and tag every story in the Story Tracker, which offers an inspiring and useful collection of the thousands of ways people are working to solve problems around the world.

  • You can learn more about how we source, vet, and tag stories here, as well as how we share them. We also have video tutorials in Spanish and French that show how to use the Solutions Story Tracker to find what you need.

  • Story collections are curated by our staff or other partners to explore a theme, pattern, or trend via selected solutions stories and external resources. Some story collections focus on an in-depth exploration of a topic with solutions journalism; others highlight journalists and how they report on topics. Certain story collections include discussion questions and notes, so that educators and community discussion leaders can lead learners to fully engage with the stories.

  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is powered by user submissions. We encourage submissions from journalists, as well as from anyone who has an eye for solutions journalism. Click here to submit. (Why submit? So many reasons!)

  • You can submit a story directly on the Solutions Story Tracker®. You will be prompted to register or log into the Solutions Journalism Network website, if you are already logged in. (It is free to register!) Logging in allows you to track the status of your submissions under My Profile, as well as save your favorite stories, create story collections and story alerts, and access other helpful features of our website.

  • After you submit a story to us and assign it a topic, it is sent to one of our Solutions Story Tracker team members. Our team member evaluates the story for the four qualities of solutions journalism, and on the basics: The story must come from a news outlet and have a date and a byline. If the story meets our criteria, our team tags it accordingly and adds it to the database. If the story falls short of the mark, our team will include the reason why. We include stories in the Story Tracker that meet our standards of solutions journalism. Inclusion does not mean we support the initiatives, policies, organizations or approaches featured in those stories.

    Discover common reasons why a story may miss the mark for inclusion in the Solutions Story Tracker®.

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  • Solutions Journalism Network features these stories in the searchable database making them publicly accessible to anyone who wants to search for rigorous reporting on solutions to social problems. Any story that is added has the potential to make more impact than its original purpose. Added stories are used in journalism trainings, school curricula, research projects, and independent analysis on issue area trends. This now includes artificial intelligence tools, which are applied for educational value to find stories and support story vetting, as well as to extract insights from the stories. SJN has digital products and newsletters that give new life and exposure to the stories meeting people where they are at. Story data also is used to develop innovative tools to reach the general public with solutions journalism as well as some specific research projects requested by researchers. If you have any questions or concerns about our use of story data or added stories, please contact Lita Tirak.

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