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Brianna Meyer with preschoolers

Student volunteers traveled to a challenged St. Louis enclave, stepped into the realities of its residents and took away a new perspective.

Teacher Amanda Thorner is seen in her third-grade classroom at Noble Crossing Elementary School.

Amanda Thorner and a colleague led the district’s first classroom that blends special education students full time with their typical peers.

Sue Ellen Guillaud, an assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Classics, presents a bingo card for French vocabulary during the Entrepreneurial Learning Academy.

Lecturing and memorization take a back seat at the inaugural eight-week academy, as 10 faculty members hone classroom creativity.

Dora Lott walks down the street in the downtown of Farmland, Indiana.

Dora Lott of Farmland, Indiana, loves trig, buys vintage and watches “Friends,” but is two years younger than most of her fellow freshmen.

Two adults help a young girl as she rides a horse in a barn.

A camp staffed by students in a Ball State immersive learning program is a confidence-builder for more than two dozen Blackford County schoolchildren.

Victoria Norris, a junior elementary ed major, leads a discussion group at Longfellow Elementary.

Education professor Eva Zygmunt and future teachers immerse themselves in young Muncie students’ community, yielding understanding and good test results.