Ear Candy January 25, 2021
Grow As We Go - Ben Platt
By, Nicoda Adams
Ben Platt’s “Grow As We Go” shares a tale of a journey of personal growth that can also be done with those close to you. Check it out here.
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Class Reflection Activities to Close Out a Tough Year
After a challenging year of pandemic schooling, these activities help students reflect on what they’ve learned and look forward to what’s coming next. Despite the numerous challenges that came with pandemic schooling, this article shares positive and creative ways many teachers have found to help students...
Praise Our Peeps
Ensuring an Intersectional Women’s History Month
While the Praise our Peeps section is normally a space to call out all the excellent things we have seen from the members of our community, it’s important to remind ourselves that while we celebrate women during March that we do so with intersectionality in mind....
Praise Our Peeps
Sacramento poet Alexandra Huynh named National Youth Poet Laureate
“Alexandra Huynh, 18, is a second-generation Vietnamese American from Sacramento who sees poetry both as a means to self-expression and social justice. Her appointment to a one-year term was announced Thursday during a virtual ceremony presented by the Kennedy Center and by the literary arts and...
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Youngest Poet Laureate in U.S. History
At 22-years-old, Amanda Gorman became the youngest person to deliver a poem at a U.S. presidential inauguration, reciting her poem “The Hill We Climb” after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were sworn in as president and vice president. Amanda’s work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism,...