A Review of Mockingbird
Review By Elaina Daniels
Sadly, school shootings have become a part of our world. Time and time again we turn on the television or radio to hear acts of violence being performed on our children in the place where we hope that they would feel the safest. Children who feel disconnected, More »
Tags: Asperger Syndrome, Book Review, Mockingbird, Special needs
A Review of Different Like Me: My book of autism heroes
By Elaina Daniels
In a world where you are completely different from everyone around you, it can often be hard to find someone outside of your own family to look up to. The world is filled with images that most people cannot attain, much less a child who has any kind More »
Tags: Autism, Book Review, Jennifer Elder
A Review of Sarah Wu’s Fed Up with Lunch
How One Anonymous Teacher Revealed the Truth About School Lunches – and How We Can Change Them!
Review By Kelly Thunstrom
As an educator for many years, I have definitely seen my share of school lunches. However, I really had not begun to give them much thought until a few years ago. More »
Tags: Book Review, Fed Up With Lunch, school lunch
A Review of Vanessa Van Petten’s New Book, Do I Get My Allowance Before or After I’m Grounded?
By Susan Frasca
It’s not very often that parents welcome advice from someone who isn’t a parent, but this extraordinary 25-year-old woman is young enough to recall and relate to the mentality of teens and old enough to respect the parents that raise them.
Sensitive and savvy to the issues between teens More »
Tags: Book Review, Do I get My Allowance Before or After I'm Grounded?, teens, Vanessa Van Petten
Raising a Capable Child
By Jennifer Taylor
One of the great dilemmas about raising a well-rounded child is the mixed messages we often receive about what makes an effective parent. There are those that tell you that you need to bond with your child, touch being important, and that it begins in early infancy. Others More »
Tags: Book Review, child development, educators, Family, H. Stephen Glenn, Jane Nelson, parenting, parents, Raising self-reliant children, responsible kids, teachers
Review: “The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander”, by Barbara Coloroso
By Gina Badalaty
What can you say about a book whose opening is a poignant poem written by a 13 year old boy as a suicide note? This had me in tears, and took me back to uncomfortable memories of high school, a time I don’t want to remember. If bullying More »
Tags: "the Bully, Book Review, Bullying book, The Bullied and the Bystander"
