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Recent Examples of docent
The author also volunteered as a Torrey Pines State Reserve docent for four years in the 1980s.
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Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2025
Depot Day at Travel Town Train Museum in Griffith Park will include high school jazz bands, docent tours, g-scale train displays, a Halloween Costume Parade (for members only) and contest along with train play area and more.
—Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 29 Sep. 2025
With Danny held hostage, Maria’s life begins to flourish and that star pupil, Pauline, inches ever-closer to her favorite docent as sympathies slip away and oscillate between characters, the film making quick work of manipulating mounting emotions.
—Holly Jones, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
My journey began with a silent docent in a red dress who led me down a hallway.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
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Electrification — or gas heaters, stoves and other appliances moving to electric ones — is also a factor, said Ramteen Sioshansi, a professor of engineering at Carnegie Mellon University who studies the electricity industry.—
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In 1993, the professor chose one design for Fitch to create for a loungewear category in her final runway show.—
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From practical to fascinating OLLI instructors are volunteers, including many UNT faculty members who take time to lead classes.—
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Devanshu Mehrotra, lead instructor of data science and data analytics at General Assembly, tells Fortune that these figures represent an expectation gap between employers and their workforce.—
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The accuser reported the assault during a doctor's appointment in December, according to court documents.—
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At first, doctors sent them home from the hospital with instructions to monitor her symptoms.—
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In these and other cases, districts concluded the incidents did not amount to antisemitism or discrimination — rulings the state disagreed with, saying educators had not complied with state requirements and had violated anti-discrimination law.—
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The high risk of injury or death has spawned activism from teachers and students, as well as the uptick of educators quitting the profession.—
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Trump’s tariffs have pushed Canada and China to look for opportunities to strengthen international cooperation, said Zhu Feng, the dean of the School of International Studies at China’s Nanjing University.—
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Nancy La Vigne, dean of the Rutgers-Newark School of Criminal Justice, noted that VR could help inmates practice real-world interactions, including navigating public transportation.—
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The longtime San Diegan worked as an acrobat, in airplane manufacturing, as a schoolteacher and in the real estate industry.—
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His dad, a former logger, and his mom, a former schoolteacher, founded West Wind in 2000.—
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Even for instructors that care about teaching, keeping student’s attention is increasingly challenging from pedagogues at elementary schools to graduate school professors at elite universities as students show up distracted and on their phones.—
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They are attracted to personalities that feel to them more like friends than pedagogues.—
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“Docent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/docent. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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