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FODR educates on local watershed

From left are Cindy Lester, Central High School; Haley Marchetti, St. Clare Walker Middle School; Michael Carey, Middlesex High School; Brandi Brown, Page Middle School; Sheri Gross, Central High School; David Moore, St. Clare Walker Middle School; and Michael Duffey, Achilles Elementary School.

For a few immersive days on Dragon Run, teachers stepped into the shoes of students. The last week of July marked the second year Friends of Dragon Run (FODR) hosted Middle Peninsula educators as part of the Dragon Run Environmental Academy Mentorship (DREAM) program.

For three days, DREAM takes educators into the field and onto the waters of Dragon Run to teach them about the watershed and help them develop lessons to take back to students, reported Anne Adkins. All of this is thanks to the FODR DREAM Team, composed of retired teachers and master naturalists Molly Broderson, Carol Kauffman, Dave Norman, Terry Skinner, Bambi Thompson and Susan Walton.

This year, participants came from Gloucester, King and Queen and Middlesex. The first two days involved….

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