A First Time for Everything By Dan Santat Long before he was an award-winning artist, Santat was afraid of the world outside. But in the summer before high school, a sponsored trip headed by a thoughtful teacher will take him from the tiny town in California, through six European cities...
The warmth of his art highlights his memoir’s lesson and makes it a great read, especially for sensitive middle-grade boys. Hoops By Matt Tavares In this graphic novel, Judi always dreamed of being a basketball star, rather than star a cheerleader. When the school announces a new girls’...
In this refulgent summer, I’m reading back through the Emerson catalog, especially the early works, including the sermons, and attentive to the evolution, culminating in his “Address” to the graduates of the Harvard Divinity School in 1838. There are many angles from which to approach such...
What I love most about going through Bishop’s vignettes has been how it’s given me a new lease on justwhyI like accumulating Blur materials. I never sprang forthe 21 box, as I already owned most of the albums and, being in grad school, I couldn’t justify the expense on CD’s. ...
I am in final year of my high school, can I apply for mext scholarship as an undergraduate for 2023? Reply TranSenz June 20, 2022 at 06:06 Hi Aayush, As long as you will graduate from high school before the end of March 2023, you can apply this year. (The scholarship would start...
Amir Tibon: Now, the rest of the war, I think a lot of books will be written about this, maybe I’ll be writing one, about the bad decisions that his team made, about the miscalculations, about the wrong turns. And there’s a lot that they deserve criticism for. But ...
“I was a teacher in a middle school for many years before ___. Pulling the rickshaw isn’t for money, but for keeping my body working___. I don’t want to do nothing though I am 63.” He continued, “I managed to make my kids receive good education, which has helped them choo...
13. Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School by Janet Halfmann This moving biography really resonates with upper elementary and middle school kids. What would it be like to have to go to school at night, in secret?
Let’s also actively choose children’s books about disabilities that promote anti-ableism.University of San Diego professor Suzanne Stolz talks about “building an anti-ableist pedagogy” in schoolsas a social justice effort, in the same vein as striving toward anti-racism. “Ableism” means as...