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After four years of planning and

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construction , the brand new Van

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Voorhees Elementary School opened its

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doors to students on August 5th , 2024

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Fort Knox and Dodea officials

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celebrated the project's completion

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with a ribbon cutting on August 13th .

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The new 21st century Dodea Elementary

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School features a neighborhood concept

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that is ideal for more efficient

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learning and teacher collaboration .

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The new features facilitate a more

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productive learning environment

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according to Dodea officials and the

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school also has a new all day preschool

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classroom .

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Um This is um a part of what

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we do in Dodea . We're very fortunate

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to have the support uh to create these

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beautiful 21st century facilities for

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our students . Our schools are the

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heart of our community . All of our

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students need this and deserve this and

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our communities need and deserve to

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have these beautiful modern spaces .

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They , they really deserve to have

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spaces that facilitate the kind of

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learning um that they need to do to be

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successful .

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I'm most excited that the stu the

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students have so many more

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opportunities of a variety of things to

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do . It's 21st century , it's state of

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the art things that they are able to do .

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And it's not like everybody has to do

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one thing here . It's open . Students

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are able to do things inside the

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classroom and they're able to come out

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into the neighborhood and do those same

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things . And they are able to choose ,

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they're able to make choices of the

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things that they would like to do . If

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you want to go to a library , you can ,

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if you wanna go to toys and games , you

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can , if you wanna do puppets , you can .

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So I feel this year I'm looking forward

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to being able to reach more students

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meet them where they are and help them

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with their needs .