In the spring we had to stay home. Now… we’re choosing to stay home? I know, I know… it’s wild. I could get into our family’s reasons for checking off that REMOTE box (willingly!), but truly, it doesn’t matter. What matters is what your family needs to do, in order to get through whatever this next season will bring. Remote? Homeschool? Hybrid? Great! Congrats to you for making this decision! Read more about some things we have been doing at home in our updated running list right here. And hats off to you — parents, teachers, guardians, front-liners who have been out there all along, everyday — for everything you’re doing and however you’re managing to do it.
Non-Fiction for Kids
A list of books about voting for kids.
New children’s books mark the 19th Amendment’s 100th anniversary.
Remote learning + nature hikes + a little homeschooling = it’s gonna be OK.
The Little Newspaper Club
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…for Young Readers
“Suburbs are perfectly valid places to want to live,” Jane told Mademoiselle magazine in 1962, but they are inherently parasitic, economically and socially, too, because they live off the answers found in cities.” Looks like it’s time to revisit this approachable and informative video on the disturbing history of the suburbs. (Thanks to the Faith & Justice Learning Lab for sharing this resource with our local community!)
Significant Miscellany
A new way of governing: creating local change that is truly by the people.
It was Lenapehoking before it was Manhattan (and it still is).
‘We wanted people to hear our voices:’ Denver students start podcast on racial justice.
Ooooh… attention teachers & homeschoolers! Check out this writing curriculum for middle schoolers.
How to teach about voting rights and register young voters, from Teaching Tolerance.
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r.p.
