Remediating Stevenson: Reframing perspectives through graphic novels
28 August, Edinburgh University – free, ticketed
Launching 3 new graphic novels inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s South Sea Tales: The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices & The Beach of Falesá. The event is aimed at upper primary & secondary teachers with an interest in English, Literacy & Art.
#Scottish #literature #graphicnovels #RobertLouisStevenson #teachers
Check Your State: Here Are the Active Shooter Training Requirements for #Schools and Law Enforcement
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No states mandate annual active shooter training for #police officers, according to an analysis by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and FRONTLINE.
In comparison, at least 37 states require such training in schools, typically on a yearly basis.
#Shootings #Guns #Kids #Teachers #News #LawEnforcement #Safety
These Researchers Study the Legacy of the #Segregation Academies They Grew Up Around
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Three young academics in #Alabama are examining these mostly white private #schools through the lenses of #economics, #education and #history to better understand the persistent division of schools in the #South.
#News #Race #School #Students #Teachers #CivilRights
https://www.propublica.org/article/alabama-researchers-segregation-academies-school-vouchers
In a State With #School #Vouchers For All, Low-Income Families Aren’t Choosing to Use Them
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Working-class parents often express interest in vouchers. But in #Arizona, the nation’s school choice capital, these families aren’t using them due to the inaccessibility of private schools and the costs of #transportation, meals and uniforms.
#News #Education #Parenting #Students #PrivateSchools #Learning #Family #WorkingClass #Teachers #Kids
Today they laid him in the earth's cold colour,
a man from Lewis with his seventy-five
years struck from his head. Teacher, scholar,
he had worked a true task when all alive…
—Iain Crichton Smith, “For Angus MacLeod”
Published in New Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2011)
Iain Crichton Smith, himself a teacher, commemorates the life of a former Headmaster of Oban High School
Today, 18 June, is Thank a Teacher Day
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #teaching #teachers #ThankATeacherDay
#CallForPapers for #OnlineConference: Thinking of the Children: #BookBans, #Censorship, and #Literature for Young People
For this online conference, organizers invite contributions from #scholars at all career stages, from #librarians and #archivists, and from #teachers at all levels, to consider #BookBanning and censorship of literature for young people, past and present.
#YALit #YA #Resist #CFP #Books
so we’re doing the 1960s and leah who’s eleven
nearly twelve says what’s vietnam sir and scott
who has already turned twelve but looks about eight
says it’s in korea isn’t it sir…
—Mark Russell, “Drama”
published in With Their Best Clothes On: New Writing Scotland 36 (ASL, 2018)
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/newwriting/nws36/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #drama #teaching #teachers
