Michéa, Einstein, Humanism
by Edward Eggleston
Educación para el Desarrollo Sostenible (UNESCO)
“Nos preguntamos cada vez más si lo que la gente aprende es realmente relevante para sus vidas, si lo que aprenden ayuda a asegurar la supervivencia de nuestro planeta. La educación para el desarrollo sostenible puede brindar los conocimientos, la conciencia y las acciones que empoderan a las personas para transformarse a sí mismas y transformar las sociedades.”
(Stefania Giannini)
S.T.E.A.M. STORYTIME: LEAVES
The leaves around where I live are definitely changing colors, because it’s officially fall! It’s gotten a lot cooler, and everyone is starting to wear their favorite sweaters and coats. It is my favorite season, because of the changing colors of my surroundings. Are the leaves changing where you live? If so, what colors do…
Arctic Animals/Climate Change/NASA
“ ‘The Arctic is showing more extreme indications of climate change,’ said Gil Bohrer, a professor and environmental engineer at Ohio State University in Columbus. Sea ice is shrinking, rainfall and snowfall are changing, and Arctic tundra is turning green in some places and brown in others.” (Bates)
The American Ideal (Chesterton)
“There is a very real sense in which certain crudities in the Americans are not so much a part of American crudity as actually a part of American culture. They are not mere outbreaks of human nature; they are something systematically impressed upon human nature.” (Chesterton)
READ WOKE: ASIAN AMERICAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER VOICES
Growing up as a voracious reader, I never saw books about Filipino children or about the Philippines and rarely saw books about Asian people and their countries. Now, working as a children’s librarian, I notice that there has been an influx of children’s books that celebrate Asians and Pacific Islanders. America is a melting pot…