Civil Rights Lessons from Learning for Justice

 https://www.learningforjustice.org/classroom-resources

2023 Peace Corps Calendar

Lists many international holidays and celebrations. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u34HKSd6Cv9Hbs6ILHgOZYxj-NOg_Hg8/view?usp=drive_link

Holiday Word Searches

 I have a bunch of holiday word searches that you can print out in this folder

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kFaB6tDG8Qf_LmsUW6H-BzrwDovYWNMC?usp=sharing

Alix

Totenberg-Ames Stradivarius

 You may know about this, but if you don't, it's a good story

https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/11/15/totenberg-strad-violin-longy-school-rare-instrument-true-crime

Learning Network: 100-Word Personal Narrative Contest

From The NY Times Learning Network:

Can you tell a meaningful and interesting true story from your life in just 100 words? That’s the challenge we posed to teenagers this fall with our 100-Word Personal Narrative Contest, a storytelling form popularized by Modern Love’s Tiny Love Stories series.

The answer, we discovered, was a resounding yes. Students from all over the world — 12,448 of them — answered our call with 100-word stories about moments from their lives big and small, funny and heartwarming, ordinary and extraordinary. From those thousands of submissions, our judges selected 82 finalists — 13 winners, 23 runners-up and 46 honorable mentions.

We hope you will take the time to read the winning essays. These miniature memoirs captured our judges’ hearts round after round and showed us how, sometimes, all you need is a few sentences to tell a compelling story.

Website about Periods

I know the health teachers have been doing puberty talks with the grade 5 kids recently. I wanted to be sure you knew about this resource that I made a couple of years ago that may be particularly helpful for the girls (and curious boys!) as part of a menstrual equity grant I did with Jodi Elder - https://periods.beverlyschools.org/

Letters About Literature

LAL Submissions Due January 12

With the holidays and the end of the fall semester upon us, we write with a gentle reminder of the Thursday, January 12 deadline of the 2022-23 Letters About Literature program in Massachusetts. (Earlier submissions are always welcome!)

Bring a handkerchief: Ukrainian Children's Choir performs at Carnegie Hall

I was practically in tears reading about the Ukrainian Children's Choir in New York getting ready to perform this weekend at Carnegie Hall. I never knew that the Carol of the Bells was written by a Ukrainian composer! And the fact that these kids who are hardly older than our students had to practice in bomb shelfters before coming here to perform - wow.

Here's a TV story about the children's choir in New York this weekend and it includes a video of them singing at Grand Central Station. The news anchor is also choking up!
https://youtu.be/Ids53WGVk9Q

And a page on the Carnegie Hall website has more about the history of this beautiful composition, which includes a video about it. It was first sung at Carnegie Hall in 1922 by the Ukrainian National Choir!
https://www.carnegiehall.org/explore/articles/2022/11/29/carol-of-the-bells

The power of music!

Guardian: I've Lost My Children to Vaping

‘I’ve lost my children to vaping’: the tragic stories behind the soaring rates of youth addiction

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/02/ive-lost-my-children-to-vaping-the-tragic-stories-behind-the-soaring-rates-of-youth-addiction