By JOCELYN NOVECK America had yet to really understand sexual harassment when Anita Hill testified against Clarence Thomas in front of an all-male Senate panel in October 1991. He was confirmed to the Supreme Court anyway, but Hill’s work was just beginning. Now, three decades later, what does 65-year-old Hill wish she could have told 35-year-old Hill, the young professor in the bright blue suit who testified calmly and deliberately that day but had utterly no idea what lay ahead? “I wish I had known then that the work would take a long time,” she says now. “That I should be patient — diligent, but patient.” As a lawyer, she had thought institutions would do their job, she says. “What...
By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use. This post may contain affiliate links. Read our disclosure policy. Home Tutoring can be a great way to help your child grow and achieve goals. Use these tips to boost their knowledge and confidence. Do you have a child who needs some extra attention? If so, then they may benefit from the opportunity of home tutoring. You might not think that it’s possible or necessary for your kid to get help at home, but sometimes just having someone there with them might make all the difference in their ability to focus on their work. Getting a tutor for your kid at home can help them excel in the classroom and also...
THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE SPOOKYHave you seen the new Halloween book by Jory John? The Good, The Bad, and The Spooky features our favorite Bad Seed...this time, he's ready to go trick-or-treating!But there's a small problem- he doesn't have a Halloween costume to wear!This makes him very worried, to the point where he tries to cancel Halloween! It takes a kind friend to relieve his anxiety and assure him that Halloween is not a competition or something to be stressed out about. It's meant for having fun!This complete literacy unit is packed with Common Core aligned activities to work through the book with your Kindergarten or First Grade class.It includes a craftivity that makes a cute bulletin board display,...
For this post I am simply going to quote Maurice Sendak from his acceptance speech given to the American Library Association in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1964, in which he answers the question, ‘Where did you ever get such a crazy, scary idea for book’, referring to his, then recently published picture book, Where The Wild Things Are. Where The Wild Things Are is a simple book in terms of the word count and plot, but, my goodness it carries a rich heavy load of story, and it’s fascinating to glimpse where that emotional depth and insight comes from - ‘During my early teens I spent hundreds of hours sitting at my window, sketching neighborhood children at play. I sketched and listened,...
The sea of knowledge is vast… Naomi’s Photos I can’t possibly teach my students everything they need to know. I couldn’t do that even before the pandemic granted me the pleasure of teaching students who haven’t studied without disruption for the past year and a half. Students whose studies may be disrupted yet again in the near future… What DO my students need to know? This question has an obvious answer, considering the fact that I’m a teacher in the national school system and we have a curriculum to follow. So there’s plenty of familiar material that needs to be taught. However… There’s an additional factor to consider. Let’s shed some light on this… Naomi’s Photos I feel that the...
