This map represents one of the reasons I am honored to be working with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to bring global education into more classrooms — particularly in communities where families can’t afford to travel to new countries, and where school budgets are under severe pressure. This infographic depicts where US news coverage…
Here’s the info sent to teachers in various networks about our @PulitzerCenter Workshop: ATTENTION Philadelphia-area K-12 TEACHERS! Join us for a UNIQUE (AND FREE!) PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY. The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting IS COMING TO PHILADELPHIA! WHEN: November 7, 2013. 4:30 – 7 pm (Dinner will be provided) WHERE: Independence Charter School – 1600…
I didn’t watch Miss America, but now I wish I had. Monday morning I woke up to a fascinating news feed about backlash on the winner, Miss NY, an Indian-American, and a first. But just as her mascara-punctuated tears began to flow as the tiara graced her perfect coif, the haters on Twitter reared their…
I was so touched by the film A Small Act, available for instant streaming on Netflix. I wrote about our experience watching it the other night, here on the Momsrising website. It’s heavy, but I also found it inspiring and gratitude-inducing. Well worth watching…
Summer offers a perfect chance to explore – ideas, places, experiences. Ideally, it’s a time for playing outside, slowing down, trying a new hobby, and more family time. Among the “muscles” I like to exercise, when not as bound by classroom exigencies, are those that go beyond anything a subject test can measure. These are…
The internet is lighting up with things to do with the kids during our northern hemisphere summer vacation. There’s something for every helicopter- or free-range, unschooling- or intense-schooling parent; and yes, something for the “global” parents too. Breaking out the passports and traveling abroad is the ideal, but for most families tickets to overseas destinations…
