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What if, by eight years old, children could possess the mechanism to disrupt prejudicial tendencies? That is an argument posited by Jane Elliott for more than five decades. She initially made the claim the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.-first with elementary school students in Riceville, Iowa, then with adults in seminar rooms full of corporate, correctional, educational, and military personnel. Elliott is famous for placing learners of all ages into a manufactured society of hate, oppression, and in-group synchrony. In Shades of Brown, historian Todd M. Mealy offers a fascinating, never-before-told reconstruction of Elliott's life as a child on a Depression-era farm in Iowa to her rise as one of the world's leading voices on the anatomy of prejudice.Loved and despised by millions, this schoolteacher invested most of her life trying to expose the root cause of bigotry: ignorance. Racism is not new. It will likely never end. However, in 1968, Elliott discovered a method to mitigate racist inclinations. She calls it the "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise," a controversial role-play on discrimination that separates learners by the color of their eyes. Elliott contends that a short period of discomfort and alienation will teach her central lesson that we are one race.Based on rarely tapped sources, especially never discovered family documents, Shades of Brown offers the full context of the origin, use, and implications of the Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise.

Marianne Bickett had been teaching for over 35 years. She thought she'd done it all.Enter: the magic art cart.Soon, ordinary days are filled with laughter, tears, and magic as she shuttles a grey cart from classroom to classroom and watches it transform into a traveling children's art gallery.This memoir is a bounty of flair and color. Not only a story of discoveries and adventures at an elementary school, it also encompasses personal heartbreak, grief, simple joys, and the wonders of adopting a nearby creek to teach her students, and in turn herself, how to go with the flow.The students become the teachers and the teacher becomes the student in this inspirational story of making and teaching art in unexpected circumstances.Parents, teachers, and those interested in education get a glimpse into a world that enlightens and delights, a rare look into what flexibility and creativity it takes to be a teacher. This colorful and insightful memoir is an inspiration to rethink daunting problems into infinite possibilities.

With a revolutionary spirit, two Quaker cousins rebel against tradition.One cousin is notorious: Alice Paul endures censure and prison to win suffrage for women. She's a political powerhouse who organizes the first women's march on Washington and the first pickets in front of the White House. She also obtains ratification of the 19th Amendment and writes the Equal Rights Amendment. The other is completely unknown: spinster Susanna Parry, whose story of passion and rebellion remains untold until a dusty box of letters is discovered in her attic after her death. The letters reveal young Susanna confronting societal norms and parental control to be with the woman she loves.This epistolary biography unfolds through the letters: Alice describes youthful pranks at Swarthmore College and settlement housework in New York and England. Susanna's roommate "E." writes of forbidden love for her "Wifie." Young Susanna describes, in humorous detail, her European travels and her time at the Woodbrooke Quaker Centre in England. Older Susanna finds companionship in the poetic letters of a New Woman from her past.The story of Susanna and Alice emerges: two Quaker rebels - a plucky feminist icon and a retiring philanthropist with a secret - who both struggle to live authentically and, despite some failures, manage to prevail.

The Modern Movement in art was an authentic response to a much-changing world. The rapid industrialization and urbanization of western society called for a new wave in the arts, a dismantling of past styles, and a rise of new forms of expression.In her studio in Paris, inspired by the paintings of Picasso, Matisse, and Cezanne hanging on the walls, Gertrude Stein discovered the rhythms of a new style of writing that made each word come alive in her stories. With the publication of Three Lives, the carefully layered tales of three common uncommon young women, she ushered in a remarkable new movement soon to be known as Modern Literature. Other writers built upon this foundation; the poet Ezra Pound, in particular, was adamant about its truth; but for years it was mostly confined to the limited circulation of small reviews and presses. Then from the upheaval of the First World War, there emerged a dynamic young writer from the American Midwest named Ernest Hemingway. He had been wounded on the front lines of Italy and came to Paris as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star. Hemingway listened carefully to Stein and Pound and believed in the precepts they taught him, but he did not want his stories confined to small presses and little reviews, he wanted to the whole world to read what he wrote with this "new kind of writing." This is the story of how he took Modern Literature into the cultural mainstream.

The first half of the 19th century was an era of upheaval. The United States nearly lost the War of 1812. Partisanship became endemic during violent clashes regarding States'' Rights and the abolition of slavery. The battle between Andrew Jackson and Nicholas Biddle over the Second Bank of the United States epitomized a nation in turmoil: Biddle, the erudite aristocrat versus Jackson, the plain-spoken warrior. The conflict altered America''s political arena.In 1832, President Andrew Jackson vowed to kill the Central Bank, setting in motion the infamous Bank War that almost bankrupted the nation. Under Biddle''s guidance, the Second Bank of the United States had become the most stable financial institution in the world. Biddle fought Jackson with tenacity and vigor; so did members of Congress not under the sway of "Old Hickory." Jackson accused Biddle of treason; Biddle declared that the president promoted anarchy. The fight riveted the nation.  The United States is experiencing a reappearance of deep schisms within our population. They hearken back to the earliest debates about the federal government''s role regarding fiduciary responsibility and social welfare. The ideological descendants of Nicholas Biddle and Andrew Jackson are as polarized today as they were during the nineteenth century. With this book, author Cordelia Frances Biddle documents the epic fight between Nicholas Biddle and Andrew Jackson over the fate of the Second Bank of the United States, shedding new light with previously undiscovered documents while bringing the story to life in a compelling biography of political intrigue. 

Born in rural Alabama in 1900, William Nabors possessed the spirit of wanderlust and the pen of a writer. At age fourteen, he published his first poem. About five years later, he was arrested for bootlegging and fled to the Texas oilfields. In an American odyssey, Nabors tramped the Southwest, worked as a journalist for the Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News, sailed the Atlantic Ocean, and settled in New York City, where he owned a book store with literary critic Ralph Adimari. Returning to journalism, Nabors created vignettes about the sights of the Big Apple, reflected on his adventures/travels, and recorded his encounters with an array of Greenwich Village characters including but not limited to novelist Maxwell Bodenheim; hobo Dan O''Brien; poet Vachel Lindsay; and artist Clifford Addams. While his vivid descriptions are captivating, Nabors''s letters hold matching value for insight into his gradual mental decline.By the 1940s, Nabors chose topics about spiritualism, psychic phenomena, phantoms, and "hearing voices." Becoming indigent, Nabors became a known figure in the Bowery, especially among the staff members of the Bowery News. His Bohemian lifestyle came to an abrupt end in 1958 when he committed suicide by allowing a taxi to run over him. His death created nationwide headlines: "Bowery Scholar," the "Courtly Panhandler," or his hobo handle --"Alabama Bill."

This middle grades curriculum draws from SEL educational standards and addresses social and emotional awareness. In these 15 lessons, students will practice mindfulness skills and explore social-emotional competencies throughout the program. Mindful Choices enables teachers to guide and support students' understanding of emotions, choices, and relationships using trauma-informed language and approaches. This curriculum also embeds video links (GoNoodle) throughout to increase engagement and sustainability.

America... how could you let this happen?As a career journalist and candidate for vice president of the United States, Pat LaMarche lived in homeless shelters and situations across the nation while campaigning. Her intent was to highlight the plight of folks she cared most about in our society: veterans, babies, kids and their parents, the elderly and the tempest-tossed (to quote Emma Lazarus from the Statue of Liberty). All those folks - she thought - were left out of the discussion during the 2004 election cycle. The book followed in 2005.Fast forward 15 years - Pat has since worked running homeless shelters, fought with the system, crisscrossed the nation multiple times, and directed the kindness of others to help those she identified as needy.This newly expanded book more than doubled the size of the original as Pat shares her experiences from the front lines. Mass sheltering, housing regulations, climate change caused homelessness, epic disasters affecting babies, toddlers, school kids, the working poor, veterans, and the elderly are chronicled - including Hurricane Katrina (where she was stationed as a journalist) and more recently Paradise, California, the site of the deadliest wildfires in California history which rendered 27,000 people homeless in a day. She also examines the coming eviction tsunami.As a bonus, the original 2005 book is also included.