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October 2012 • Volume 16 • Number 2 • Page 39

Teams in Action

Jeffrey Kuntz

Going the Distance: Connect Students Through an Integrated Unit

Article Description: Students benefit from seeing the "human" side of their teachers. A team in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, connected students to their teachers—and to content—through a day –long integrated unit focused on one teacher's passion: marathons.

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Jeffrey Kuntz is a fifth grade math and social studies teacher and fifth grade team leader at Punxsutawney Area Middle School in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and was a finalist for Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year in 2007. E-mail: jkuntz@punxsy.k12.pa.us
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