Teaching and Learning Summer 2021
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Volume 3, Issue 1 | Summer 2021 | Faculty Resource
Celebrate freedom & opportunity that comes with the ability to design & carry out a robust, “independent” curriculum.
DEI resources
compiled by Independent School Library Section AASL / ALA
- DEI ResourcesThis list was compiled from suggestions provided by attendees at the 2021 ALA Midwinter Discussion Group “Crowdsourcing for Community: A Conversation about DEI Resources,”
hosted by the Independent Schools Section. - Learning For Justice - classroom resourcesFormerly Teaching Tolerance
Summer Projects
- SCHOOL IS OUT: 7 TIPS TO CLEAN UP YOUR G SUITEFrom Alice Keeler
- Reading about Time ManagementFrom Cult of Pedagogy
EDU TOOLS to TRY
Catching up - 2021-22
Filling the gaps
Consult the Annenberg Institute at Brown University working papers on Covid-19 Education Research for Recovery.
The State of Educational Technology in a Post-Pandemic World.
The pandemic could open a door to new technology — and dramatic innovation — in education.
Please 
Consider Research
[next year] in the Library
See these discipline-specific competitions.
We are happy to work on these as collaborative projects
- America's Battle of the BooksReading incentive program that is designed for 3-12 grade readers.
- Art Competitions31 Awesome Art Competitions for High School Students (2021)
- MTSEF ScienceThe Middle Tennessee Science and Engineering Fair (MTSEF) is the premier STEM competition for middle and high school students in Nashville-Davidson County and its surrounding counties. Steve Murphree, director steve.murphree@belmont.edu
- National History Day ContestsNational History Day is a year-long academic program focused on historical research, interpretation and creative expression for 6th- to 12th-grade students.
- The Ultimate Guide to Student Writing ContestsList of student writing contests below in a variety of topics.
- The Volunteer State Book AwardEach year, children across Tennessee are asked to read books from a list of nominated titles. In the spring, those students who have read or listened to at least three of the titles from the list are eligible to vote for their favorite titles.
Non-Fiction Recommendations
Adult Bestsellers
The Power of Moments by ISBN: 1501147765Publication Date: 2017-10-03Hannah's MUST READ non-fiction for educators!!!
What if a teacher could design a lesson that he knew his students would remember twenty years later? Many of the defining moments in our lives are the result of accident or luck--but why would we leave our most meaningful, memorable moments to chance when we can create them? The Power of Moments shows us how to be the author of richer experiences.
Think Again by ISBN: 1984878107Publication Date: 2021-02-02In Think Again, Adam Grant weaves together research and storytelling to help us build the intellectual and emotional muscle we need to stay curious enough about the world to actually change it.
Articles
- Chess, The Library, and The Queen’s Gambit
- Prior Knowledge and Inquiry in Reading
- Part 1: Polarization and Resistance to Fact-Checking Information
- Part 2: Polarization and New Techniques for Information Evaluation
- 7 Library Changes I Hope Remain Post Pandemic
- Are They Prepared? A Question of College Readiness
Folks to Follow
Pedagogy - Jennifer Gonzalez @cultofpedagogy
Tech in the Classroom - Alice Keeler @alicekeeler
Edu Inspiration - George Couros @gcouros
Book Clubs & Book Reviews
- 5 summer books and other things to do at homeBy Bill Gates| May 18, 2020 6 minute read
Fiction
Adult Bestsellers
We will have these books and more available at closing faculty meetings and throughout the summer
Interior Chinatown by
Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he's merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He's a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy--the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. Or is it? After stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he's ever known, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown, but the buried legacy of his own family. Infinitely inventive and deeply personal, exploring the themes of pop culture, assimilation, and immigration--Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu's most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet. "Fresh and beautiful. . . . Interior Chinatown represents yet another stellar destination in the journey of a sui generis author of seemingly limitless skill and ambition." --The New York Times Book Review
ISBN: 0307948471Publication Date: 2020-11-17
The Vanishing Half by
Stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect? Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins. As with her New York Times-bestselling debut The Mothers, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise.
ISBN: 0525536299Publication Date: 2020-06-02
Project Hail Mary by
A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this "propulsive" (Entertainment Weekly) new science-based thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Martian. "An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi."--USA Today "If you loved The Martian, you'll go crazy for Weir's latest."--The Washington Post Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it's up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery--and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he's got to do it all alone. Or does he? An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian--while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.
ISBN: 0593135202Publication Date: 2021-05-04
YA Books
What the kids are reading
Ground Zero by ISBN: 1338245759Publication Date: 2021-02-02
Dress Coded by ISBN: 1984816438Publication Date: 2020-07-07
Rule of Wolves by ISBN: 125014230XPublication Date: 2021-03-30
