This April, the Ed Team has been inspired by the Carnegie Medal shortlist and SDG Target 4.7, Global Citizenship. We recommend reading The Crossing by Manjeet Mann.* Every high school library should have this book to teach students about human rights and promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence. The book tells the...
March is Poetry Month, and the Ed Team encourages you to read some poems this month! In particular, we recommend the poems of presidential inaugural poet and youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman in her book Call Us What We Carry. Ms. Gorman’s book is especially relevant this month because the Ed Team is focusing on...
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools provides interesting but troubling reading. Author Monique W. Morris describes, often in narratives that individualize the problem, how Black girls’ behavior in middle and high schools is crimininalized, pushing the girls out of school. This pushing out makes it difficult for the girls to obtain the quality education...
With Martin Luther King, Jr. Day just celebrated and Black History Month upon us in the US, it seems an appropriate time to dig deeper into the history of African Americans. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson is a masterpiece of research into past and present realities, yet easily accessible.
This month the Education Team recommends reading What is a Perfect World?, a book written by Nancy Lynner (AWC Central Scotland), illustrated by Tharien van Eck (AWC Antwerp), designed by Joyce Halsan (AWC Central Scotland) and produced by Amanda Drollinger (AWC Central Scotland). This fun book allows readers to discuss eleven different world issues with young children and highlights the important work the children can...
The Rainbow Troops by Andrea Hirata
The Rainbow Troops is Andrea Hirata’s closely autobiographical debut novel of 2005. The story follows Ikal and his friends, nicknamed the Rainbow Troops, as they struggle to get an education in the poorest village school on the Indonesian island of Belitong. The children of the Indonesian Tin Company employees receive...
