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2017 Winter Break #5
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Welcome to The Book Love Foundation Podcast! And thank you for joining us in this celebration of teaching and the joy of learning.
This episode is part of a series of special shows for winter break 2017! In each episode, we will help you figure what to do with those book store gift cards by sharing some titles you may want to add to your classroom library. Today Penny talks with Aeriale Johnson!
Season 2 Ep 9 Show notes
Aeriale Johnson serves children and their communities as a kindergarten teacher at Washington Elementary School in San Jose, CA. Prior to that, she taught in rural Alaska for 11 years and Florida for eight years. Her research focuses on both exploring and eliminating word poverty and the impact of the vestiges of colonialism on public school education in rural and urban settings throughout the world. She is a National Board Certified Teacher, served on the ILA Rural Diversity Committee from 2012-14, has presented at ILA and NCTE, and is currently a Heinemann Fellow.
Find Aeriale on Twitter and Facebook.
Here are her book recommendations…
Where the Past Begins, by Amy Tan
My Name is Not Easy, by Debby Dahl Edwardson
(Also mentioned: Blessings Bead and Whale Snow.)
The Rock and the River, by Kekla Magoon
(Also mentioned: How It Went Down and X, a novel, written with Ilyasah Shabazz.)
Other texts mentioned:
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America, by Alex Kotlowitz
The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
All American Boys, by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
Refugee, by Alan Gratz
At the end of this special series, a list of all the suggested titles will be sent to everybody on the Teacher Learning Sessions email list. If you are not yet on the list, you can go to Teacher Learning Sessions.com and sign up there. It is quick and easy, and you will receive that list directly to your inbox. If you already are on the list, thank you!
Thank you for listening to this episode of the Book Love Foundation podcast. The Book Love Foundation is a non-profit 501 3(c) dedicated to putting books in the hands of teachers dedicated to nurturing the individual reading lives of their middle and high school students. In the past five years, we have awarded $223,000. If you can help us in our mission, visit booklovefoundation.org and make a donation. 100% of what you give goes to books.
– Penny
The post 2017 Winter Break #5 appeared first on Teacher Learning Sessions.
30 episodes
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When? This feed was archived on July 14, 2019 01:48 (). Last successful fetch was on May 16, 2019 22:33 ()
Why? Inactive feed status. Our servers were unable to retrieve a valid podcast feed for a sustained period.
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Manage episode 210388002 series 2359589
Welcome to The Book Love Foundation Podcast! And thank you for joining us in this celebration of teaching and the joy of learning.
This episode is part of a series of special shows for winter break 2017! In each episode, we will help you figure what to do with those book store gift cards by sharing some titles you may want to add to your classroom library. Today Penny talks with Aeriale Johnson!
Season 2 Ep 9 Show notes
Aeriale Johnson serves children and their communities as a kindergarten teacher at Washington Elementary School in San Jose, CA. Prior to that, she taught in rural Alaska for 11 years and Florida for eight years. Her research focuses on both exploring and eliminating word poverty and the impact of the vestiges of colonialism on public school education in rural and urban settings throughout the world. She is a National Board Certified Teacher, served on the ILA Rural Diversity Committee from 2012-14, has presented at ILA and NCTE, and is currently a Heinemann Fellow.
Find Aeriale on Twitter and Facebook.
Here are her book recommendations…
Where the Past Begins, by Amy Tan
My Name is Not Easy, by Debby Dahl Edwardson
(Also mentioned: Blessings Bead and Whale Snow.)
The Rock and the River, by Kekla Magoon
(Also mentioned: How It Went Down and X, a novel, written with Ilyasah Shabazz.)
Other texts mentioned:
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America, by Alex Kotlowitz
The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
All American Boys, by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
Refugee, by Alan Gratz
At the end of this special series, a list of all the suggested titles will be sent to everybody on the Teacher Learning Sessions email list. If you are not yet on the list, you can go to Teacher Learning Sessions.com and sign up there. It is quick and easy, and you will receive that list directly to your inbox. If you already are on the list, thank you!
Thank you for listening to this episode of the Book Love Foundation podcast. The Book Love Foundation is a non-profit 501 3(c) dedicated to putting books in the hands of teachers dedicated to nurturing the individual reading lives of their middle and high school students. In the past five years, we have awarded $223,000. If you can help us in our mission, visit booklovefoundation.org and make a donation. 100% of what you give goes to books.
– Penny
The post 2017 Winter Break #5 appeared first on Teacher Learning Sessions.
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