Getting Deeper
How Not to Be Wrong:The Power of Mathematical ThinkingBy Jordan Ellenberg(Penguin Press, 2014) There is a lot of talk these days about teaching problem solving, but not much thought about […]
Good Stuff
When Girls Are Activists
Child and teen activists fighting for social justice often get left out of official histories and curriculum. In their picture book biography, Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike […]
When a Picture Book Is Subversive
As a K-8 teacher librarian, I love to read picture books that generate thoughtful questions and debate among the diverse students I work with. Toni Morrison’s children’s book The Big […]
Good Stuff 27.4
From the Dress-Up Corner to the Senior Prom:Navigating Gender and Sexuality Diversity in PreK–12 Schools By Jennifer Bryan(Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2012) I teach at a school that names social […]
Awareness of the Natural World
Publishers carefully manicure the list of books they publish, and slot them into categories by age as well as genre: young adult, beginning reader, adult romance, and so on. However, […]