By Laurel Snyder There’s a wooden trunk in my office, where I keep the things that matter, and if you dig around in it, root through the faded photographs and brittle corsages, you’ll find some [...]
I’ve had an up-and-down relationship with the classics. The Great Gatsby, Romeo and Juliet, and The Old Man and the Sea were all required reading for my high school English language arts classes. [...]
Happy Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year! This is a great time to take a look at your shelves and see if they represent the diversity of your community and open windows into the lives of people [...]
Randi Sonenshine, children’s book author of The Nest That Wren Built and middle school literacy specialist, shares ways to keep communication going in book clubs using fun games. Read on for some [...]
Our featured guest author on the Mackin Community blog is Ibtihaj Muhammad, the first Muslim American woman to compete for the United States in the Olympics while wearing a hijab. She is an [...]
It’s like making resolutions, but it’s all about measuring your progress toward keeping them. In practice, I regret that I didn’t create formal plans. I did write at least three goals each year [...]
by Katy Tessman, New School Services Project Manager and Makerspace Specialist Millennials have a bad reputation for being lazy, entitled, and self-obsessed. But since 2015, a group of young [...]
I have a confession. Over my 25 years of teaching I’ve developed focusing problems (“Squirrel!). I find myself reading the first few lines of an article, jumping to the end, and then [...]
