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The Labor of Staying On the southern Oregon coast, becoming a teacher is less a calling than a decision about work, family, and the stubborn act of remaining.

We hope you enjoy.

Oregon Spring Cleanup Needs Volunteers for Coast, Inland - All Through April SOLVE is expanding its largest spring volunteer effort

April is National Volunteer month.

Forest Service Shake-Up Comes As Risky Wildfire Season Looms - Inside Climate News The Trump administration says moving the Forest Service headquarters to Utah and shutting down 31 research stations will streamline operations and bring leaders west, where the forests are.

Forest Service restructuring is stripping local fire prevention capacity weeks before peak season. You do not remove planners, fuels specialists, and coordinators and expect safer outcomes.

RPCVs in Politics Part 2: A new generation of leaders A call to action for the community to elevate our future leaders

Lot's of former volunteers running!

Please join us April 26 for a public forum with candidates for Oregon’s 2nd Congressional District. Candidates from both parties have been invited to discuss service, volunteerism, humanitarian work, and the role of the United States in global development. Open to the public.
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Would you kindly send me a chat message. We would like to invite you to a forum in Medford. I am unable to find your official campaign website.

Navajo Nation commission issues report on Gallup schools’ disparate discipline for Native students • Source New Mexico The Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission issued a report on Gallup-McKinley school discipline following public hearings at chapter houses last fall.

From a teacher education perspective, this report is a reminder that discipline is never neutral. Cultural understanding, relationships with families, and equitable policies all shape student outcomes. Preparing future teachers means preparing them to teach the communities they actually serve.

More good news, Peace Corps turns 65!

Former Peace Corps volunteer speaks on USAID shutdown in Ashland A career Foreign Service Officer is set to reveal firsthand accounts of USAID's abrupt shutdown.

Southern Oregon Returned Peace Corps Volunteers hosts speaking events and is always looking for RPCVs who have gone on to interesting work or experiences and would like to share their story. If interested, send us a message.

Earl Hills, a map forward and the hammer - SOU News Earl Hills has lived through challenges and found his map forward at SOU before beginning a teaching career that leans on his experiences.

Stories like this remind us what teacher preparation is really about. Earl Hills shows what happens when someone is believed in, supported, and given time to grow. Now he is carrying that same belief into his own classroom for the next generation.

Collage celebrating 65 years of the Peace Corps. At the center, bold text reads “Peace Corps 65 Years.” Surrounding images show volunteers working alongside community members across different countries: reading to children in classrooms, standing with students in school uniforms, participating in health and agricultural activities, sharing meals, attending a swearing in ceremony, and posing in group photos. The images span decades and settings, highlighting education, public health, youth engagement, and cross cultural partnership.

65 years in, the Peace Corps is unfinished and unavoidable. Born of Cold War ambition and carried by citizens. It has asked Americans to listen before speaking and confront their certainty in rooms shaped by histories not their own. What endures are relationships across distance and difference.

1,700 Kentuckians later, Peace Corps is still going strong | Opinion With 1,7000 volunteers from Kentucky since 1961, the Peace Corps has adapted with a changing world. It's an experience I wish everyone could have.

Great article.

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The US will send Tech Corps members to foreign countries in its latest push for AI dominance The Tech Corps will send its volunteers to participating countries, aiming to use American AI to address critical issues.

“The Peace Corps' latest proposal will recruit STEM graduates or those with professional experience in the artificial intelligence sector and send them to participating host countries.”

Peace Corps rolls out Tech Corps to ship US AI overseas. Sounds like uplift. Reads like power. Who names the problems. Who owns the data and labor. What happens to local capacity and consent. Development or techno missionizing. How are you reading this

🇺🇸 One year after being told resistance was futile, we are still here. What began in fear has become collective power. We learned that public service is refusal, memory, and care held in common. Give yourself permission to believe this can be won. We are not leaving.

Jeff Golden Of Ashland Withdraws From Re-Election To State Senate Seat | The Ashland Chronicle-Oregon Golden has served District 3 in the Oregon State Senate since he was elected in 2018. Golden initially announced his decision to run for re-election on Dec.

Grateful for Sen. Jeff Golden’s decades of principled service to Southern Oregon. From wildfire resilience to housing and environmental leadership, he’s served with integrity. I’m committed to continuing the fight for affordable housing, health care, strong schools, and a resilient economy.

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The Myth of the Heroic Adaptor When Responsiveness Collapses into Triage

A student in one of my classes asked a question that would not let go.

Not whether differentiation matters, but when it is actually possible.

I tried to stay with that question here.