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Learn More about COLLTS PreK Curriculum from the American Institutes for Research
Learn More about COLLTS PreK Curriculum from the American Institutes for Research
Lee & Low Books is the exclusive publisher of the American Institutes for Research preschool curriculum, Cultivating Oral Language and Literacy Talents in Students (COLLTS). Today we’re sharing frequently asked questions about the curriculum.
Is COLLTS only for dual language learners?
No! The Center for English Learners at the American Institutes for Research designed the COLLTS PreK curriculum…
Live Webinar with Jennifer Serravallo: Diversity in Books for Independent and Instructional Reading and Writing in Kindergarten and First Grade
Live Webinar with Jennifer Serravallo: Diversity in Books for Independent and Instructional Reading and Writing in Kindergarten and First Grade
As schools prepare for a critical academic year like no other, educators are looking to engage with students in essential literacy skills while providing high-quality literature that students can relate to, enjoy and learn from.
Join Jennifer Serravallo, renowned literacy consultant, expert, and New York Times bestselling author, and Adjoa Burrowes, educator, artist, and award-winning Lee & Low…
Free Upcoming Webinar: Using Children’s Literature to Foster Empathy and Challenge Anti-Immigrant Bias
Free Upcoming Webinar: Using Children’s Literature to Foster Empathy and Challenge Anti-Immigrant Bias
Join us for an energetic discussion about how to engage students in anti-bias thinking through literature in which they may recognize themselves and learn more about the lives, experiences, and perspectives of people who are immigrants.
This webinar is part of the Educator Summit on Challenging Anti-immigrant Bias in Schools and Society hosted by Re-Imagining Migration and the Anti-Defamation…
Parents and Caregivers: Use This Tool to Build a More Diverse Home Book Collection
Parents and Caregivers: Use This Tool to Build a More Diverse Home Book Collection
We are so excited to announce that we have adapted our beloved Classroom Library Questionnaire into a tool for families and caregivers! Our newly launched Home Library Questionnaire is now available for free to download.
The Home Library Questionnaire will help you:
Reflect on your home library
Broaden the types of books you read with your children
Diversify your child’s independent reading and…
Watch the Webinar: Best Practices for English Learners in PreK
Watch the Webinar: Best Practices for English Learners in PreK
Thank you to everyone who joined us for last week’s webinar, “Best Practices for English Learners in Prekindergarten” with experts Dr. Patricia Garcia-Arena, Principal Researcher, and Dr. Rebecca Bergey, Senior Researcher, at the Center for English Learners at the American Institutes for Research. You can access the webinar below, or here on Youtube.
The webinar showcases COLLTS, which stands…
Diverse Texts Aren’t Just for Elementary School: Building Inclusive Curricula for Middle and High School
Diverse Texts Aren’t Just for Elementary School: Building Inclusive Curricula for Middle and High School
In this guest post, Paul Bambrick-Santoyo and Stephen Chiger, co-authors of Love and Literacy: A Practical Guide for Grades 5-12 to Finding the Magic in Literature, share different ways that high school educators can approach text selection and build inclusive curricula.
Here’s a thought experiment: Consider the two high school book lists below. Which one would you prefer for a child you…
2021 Diverse Summer Reading Books for Grades 6-8
2021 Diverse Summer Reading Books for Grades 6-8
Want to freshen up your Summer Reading list, but not sure where to begin? Kick off summer with our fun, colorful, and printable Diverse Summer Reading List that will get all kids engaged in reading! Our list includes both fiction and nonfiction, bilingual Spanish/English titles, and a diverse range of cultures—in other words, the right book for every reader!
In this blog post, we’ve rounded up…
Upcoming Webinar: Best Practices for English Learners in PreK
Upcoming Webinar: Best Practices for English Learners in PreK
Join our upcoming webinar “Best Practices for English Learners in PreK” on Thursday, June 3rd at 3:00 PM ET.
In this conversation with two experts from the American Institutes of Research (AIR), we will explore best practices for English Learners in PreK as well as a preview of the new curriculum, COLLTS, from The Center for English Learners at AIR. Our expert panelists are Dr. Patricia…
2021 Diverse Summer Reading Books for Grades 3-5
2021 Diverse Summer Reading Books for Grades 3-5
Want to freshen up your Summer Reading list, but not sure where to begin? Kick off summer with our fun, colorful, and printable Diverse Summer Reading List that will get all kids engaged in reading! Our list includes both fiction and nonfiction, bilingual Spanish/English titles, and a diverse range of cultures—in other words, the right book for every reader!
In this blog post, we’ve rounded up…
Watch the Webinar: Teaching About Juneteenth with Children’s Books
Watch the Webinar: Teaching About Juneteenth with Children’s Books
We had a great virtual turnout for last week’s webinar, “Teaching About Juneteenth with Children’s Books” with Newbery and Caldecott Honor-winning author and poet Carole Boston Weatherford (Juneteenth Jamboree), alongside expert educators Dr. Amanda Vickery, Assistant Professor of Social Studies at University of North Texas, and Dawnavyn James, Missouri-based Early Childhood and Elementary…
2021 Diverse Summer Reading Books for Grades PreK-2
2021 Diverse Summer Reading Books for Grades PreK-2
Want to freshen up your Summer Reading list, but not sure where to begin? Kick off summer with our fun, colorful, and printable Diverse Summer Reading List that will get all kids engaged in reading! Our list includes both fiction and nonfiction, bilingual Spanish/English titles, and a diverse range of cultures—in other words, the right book for every reader!
In this blog post, we’ve rounded up…
Happy Teacher Appreciation Day
Roughly two million K-12 educators teach science to American students. Of these, more than 165,000 teach predominantly science to middle and high school students, according to 2006 statistics.
Happy Teacher Day and Teacher Appreciation Week, Science NetLinks visitors! None of us would be doing what we do here without a terrific science teacher in our past.
Do you have a favorite teacher?
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It’s Teacher Appreciation Week! We asked our authors to share stories about their favorite teachers—here’s what they had to say.
Who was your favorite teacher and why?
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It’s Teacher Appreciation Week and we’re celebrating teachers all week long! Here’s what some of our authors had to say about their favorite teachers.
Who was your favorite teacher?
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Teacher Bae.
Oakland, Ca. 2017.
Pleasured and honored to work with @pinkpanthersororityinc to bring together black and brown women who are educators in Oakland to do a shoot.
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“Do presidents ever feel bad for having so much stuff at Christmas when some people have nothing?”
Last week, students from a 6th grade Social Studies class in Texas took to Twitter to ask us about Christmas at the White House. The question above merited a longer response than 280 characters, and Corey Carr, Museum Technician at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, found an example from Christmastime in 1980. Here is his response to the students at Krueger Middle School:
It is easy to imagine that Presidents do feel sorrow for having such abundance when others have so little. Some run for office simply to improve the lives of others. Some Presidents, such as Jimmy Carter, the 39th President, had humble beginnings. President Carter, like other Presidents, recognized this disparity and used their authority and power to ease the suffering of others. He spoke about his humble beginnings just before lighting the White House Christmas tree in 1980: “My background is as a farmer and farmers have to have a lot of faith in order to keep on every year, planting a crop, not having control over what’s going to happen next.“
During this speech many Americans were being held hostage in Iran and subsequently were separated from their families during the holiday. President Carter recognized the hostages when he asked their families if they wished all the tree lights turned on or just the single Star of Hope on top of the White House tree. The families responded by saying they wanted to wait until all the hostages were home before the main lights of the tree were lit. In the meantime the hostage’s families wished simply for the Star of Hope to burn brightly until their loved ones safe return.
Whether it is securing peace in the Middle East or eradicating disease in Africa, Jimmy Carter is an example of how someone from humble beginnings can better their lives and chose to then use their success in service of others. He understands that the real meaning of Christmas and life itself is not objects but rather people. Helping others, spending time together with loved ones, recalling fond times, and making new memories are what is important. Jimmy Carter epitomized this sentiment once by saying:
"I have one life and one chance to make it count for something… My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference."
This Christmas let us understand that we all have the power to make a positive change, however small, in the lives of others whatever our circumstances. That is the greatest gift we can offer ourselves and the world. What can you do for others?
Image: President Jimmy Carter at the Christmas Pageant of Peace, 12/18/80.
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TOON Books loves public schools!
This morning, Ricardo Siri Liniers is visiting two schools in the Miami Dade County Public School System! He’ll be meeting students, giving away free books, and encouraging young readers, artists, and writers to follow their dreams!
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