Hook Students on Minnesota History will feature Nancy Noyes Silcox’s new book A Place Called Home about German Immigrants from Cincinnati who seek security, opportunity and freedom in New Ulm, a new settlement on the Minnesota frontier. MEA 2024 is Oct. 17th at Saint Paul RiverCentre, 175 West Kellogg Boulevard,…
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Meet the author, Nancy Noyes Silcox, and hear about A Place Called Home: The Story of German Immigrants from Cincinnati, Ohio to New Ulm, Minnesota 1856-1862. It’s the story of young Carolina Beck and her family who are driven from Cincinnati, Ohio, by rising hostilities toward immigrants. They travel by…
Continue reading: A Place Called Home at Twin Cities Book Festival Oct. 19thMarch 26, 2022 I’ll be talking about Samuel Wilbert Tucker: The Story of a Civil Rights Trailblazer and the 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-in. Included are highlights of the sit-in and Tucker’s fifty year legal career arguing school desegregation cases and fighting for fairness, equality and justice.
Continue reading: 50 North Senior Center Author TalkLinda Mitchell and I shared “Recommended Reading by Virginia Librarians for MG Social Studies” with school librarians and social studies teachers at the two conferences in November. Besides learning about fiction and nonfiction books that will extend history beyond the textbook, these books provide windows and mirrors to events and…
Continue reading: VASSL & VCSSE ConferencesOur “Collaborate for Powerful Teaching and Learning in History and Language Arts” session drew attendees from around the country at the Phoenix conference for school librarians. They learned how Virginia teachers and librarians are working together to provide engaging learning opportunities for students. They tried out strategies of “zoom-in inquiry”…
Continue reading: AASL Collaboration Beyond the HorizonNancy Noyes Silcox, author of Samuel Wilbert Tucker: The Story of a Civil Rights Trailblazer and the 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-in, and Linda J. Mitchell, Librarian at Stonewall Middle School in Manassas, Virginia will present “Collaborate for Powerful Teaching and Learning” at the VCSSE conference in Richmond, November 3-4, 2017….
Continue reading: Alexandria Library Sit-in at the Virginia Council for Social Studies Educators’ ConferenceThe American Association of School Librarians has accepted our presentation on how teachers and librarians in Virginia have collaborated to include historic little-known events in history and language arts instruction. AASL’s national conference will be in Phoenix in November 2017. Linda Mitchell, librarian at Stonewall Middle School in Manassas, VA, and I will…
Continue reading: Alexandria Library Sit-in Goes NationalMy first conference of children’s book writers and illustrators was everything I’d hoped for. What a fabulous opportunity to learn from people who know about creating and publishing books for young readers. It’s not only a day and a half of intense submersion in literary pool, but a chance to connect with…
Continue reading: SCBWI Conference in New YorkBryan Collier shared Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me in his opening keynote. It’s a compelling story of coping with loss and surviving. Bryan gave a shoutout to teachers and librarians who try to fill the holes some kids live with every day. Bryan was the lunch speaker at the VAASL (VEMA)…
Continue reading: Meeting Bryan Collier at SCBWI