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Women’s History Month: Lifting As We Climb
My favorite thing about Lifting As We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Boxby Evette Dionne is that it’s accurate, and the author highlights...
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Using Immersive Reader as Part of a Close Reading Routine
One of the key shifts in English Language Arts classrooms is the move for students to engage routinely with complex text. To prepare students for the...
Women’s History Month: Fighting Words
In Kimberly Brubaker Bradley’s Fighting Words, 10-year-old protagonist Della gives readers a front row seat to her daily life in foster care with her...
Women's History Month: I Am Malala
In recent months, the Taliban in the Middle East has taken over once again after American troops removed themselves. The first person I thought of...
Women's History Month: The Girl with the Louding Voice
The main character in The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré, Adunni, is on a personal journey to give herself the best life she can despite...
Women's History Month: Powerful Women
If we all trace our lineage back generation by generation, you will almost always find a fearless woman at the forefront of care, kindness, and the...
Black History Month: Death by Journal
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Okay—circle of trust here. After dropping my youngest child off at college all the way from San Antonio, Texas, to Lawrence, Kansas, at The...
Black History Month: Fits, Photos, and Happily Ever Afters
Back when I taught at Southwest High School in San Antonio, Sharri Peterson, who dubbed herself my work wife, was my school spirit partner. Whenever...
Black History Month: The Friend You Need
In just the past few weeks, I’ve seen two friends post on social media about their spirit animals. Neither of them is Native American. Recently,...
Black History Month: He Sees Dead People
My mother tells this story of being so exhausted that she couldn’t get up to rock my older brother, her first child, back to sleep in the middle of...