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It’s Teacher Appreciation Week! – First Book Blog

It’s Teacher Appreciation Week! – First Book Blog

It’s Teacher Appreciation Week!

Teacher Appreciation Week provides us with the opportunity to celebrate great teachers who change lives and inspire young people to reach for their dreams. First Book is especially grateful to teachers who work tirelessly to fight illiteracy and introduce children to the joy of of reading.

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, we asked our guest blogger, Sabrina Stevens Shupe, to share her advice on how to inspire students to discover the joy of reading. Shupe is a teacher, writer, and education activist in Colorado. She has worked with students in struggling communities in Philadelphia and Denver, and currently works with grassroots education movements around the country.

I’m sure it’s not surprising to hear a teacher say this, but I absolutely love books. Some of my earliest and fondest memories of childhood involve reading: being read to by my parents and teachers,

Lobby Day pics. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Lobby Day pics. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Lobby Day pics.

Big Education Ape: 5-4-11 PM Obama Been Readin' Edition

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nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - May 4, 2011 (GBN News): After a firestorm of criticism over the lack of transparency in the coming elections for Community Education Councils (CEC’s), NY City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott has ...


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huffingtonpost.com - It may be Teacher Appreciation Week, but if online comments and blog posts indicate anything, some public school teachers don't feel the love from their employer, the federal government.On Monday, ...


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michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - "The data shows that the longer you stay in the classroom learning, you'll learn more..." -- Rahm EmanuelWhile you mull that one over, I want to know who the genius was that told Chicago mayor-ele...


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online.wsj.com - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has selected Cami Anderson, a top New York City schools official, to lead the state-run Newark Public School system, according to several people with knowledge of the...


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ethanwj.livejournal.com - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has selected Cami Anderson, a top New York City schools official, to lead the state-run Newark Public School system, according to several people with knowledge of the...


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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Signature-Gathering Push Begins for Oil Tax to Fund Education - Pulse of the Bay - The Bay CitizenSignature-Gathering Push Begins for Oil Tax to Fund EducationTEXT SIZE A A ABy JENNIFER GOLLAN|May ...


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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - ASCD Inservice: How Can We Support the Whole Teacher?How Can We Support the Whole Teacher?In our school, we have devoted much attention to teaching the Whole Child. Now we would also like to look a...


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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Shorter Year For California Schools? - Politics News Story - KCRA SacramentoShorter Year For California Schools?California Facing Budget CrisisPOSTED: 8:04 am PDT May 4, 2011UPDATED: 1:51 pm PDT Ma...


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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: A Few of Wall Street's Columbia and Harvard WhoresA Few of Wall Street's Columbia and Harvard Whoresby Jim HornThe ivy walls of academe have been breached. No, it didn't take any h...


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motherjones.com - Is a serious backlash against the ed reform community finally starting to form? Maybe. Here's Exhibit A. Here's Exhibit B. And of course, Diane Ravitch has been Exhibit C for a while now. These are...


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tuttlesvc.org - NYTimes:The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest philanthropy, and the foundation associated with Pearson, the giant textbook and school technology company, announced a partnership ...


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cbsnews.com - (Credit: CBS/AP) A new CBS News/New York Times poll shows President Obama's overall approval rating has jumped by an impressive 11 percentage points in the wake of the U.S. military mission which k...


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nydailynews.com - A top DOE official is under investigation for "potential corruption and conflict of interest" with an owner of a major computer contractor. A top Department of Education official who supervised a m...


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fdlaction.firedoglake.com - Imagine that, for absolutely no logical reason, the government was about to mail you a check for $4 billion, but some people want to stop you from getting that check. How much would you be willing ...


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modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/05/uae-fires-teachers-union-leaders.html"; The government of the United Arab Emirates has fired the leaders of the Teachers Association and replac...


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theuptake.org - Boisterous crowds of workers, immigrants and union members celebrated International Workers Day on May 1 with a march from the Saint Paul Cathedral to the Minnesota State Capitol. In the United Sta...


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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 3:27 pm, May 4, 2011 Photo Credits: ICE continues its investigation of Chipotle hiring practices Roughly 30 Chipotle Mexican Grill locations were visited by U.S. Immigration and Custom...


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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - “Who Is Osama Bin Laden?” … Do Teens Really Not Know? « Student Activism“Who Is Osama Bin Laden?” … Do Teens Really Not Know?by Angus JohnstonYesterday Yahoo put up a post on its search blog titled...


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gothamschools.org - by Philissa Cramer Sandra Day O’Connor called students’ failing grades on a civics exam a “crisis.” (Times) For the most important age group — 12th graders — scores have fallen since 2006. (Eduflac...


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dailycensored.com - From Ken Knabb of the Bureau of Public SecretsIn January 1960 the San Francisco Examiner (a Hearst newspaper) offered Kenneth Rexroth a job writing a weekly column. He accepted. By May 1961 the col...


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blog.aflcio.org - The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO communications team, Jim Deegan and Karen Gownley, sent us this report. Some 5,000 private- and public-sector union workers came together in Harrisburg, Pa., yesterday to r...


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businessweek.com - May 04, 2011, 1:05 PM EDT By Henry Goldman (Adds date change for budget in first, second paragraphs.) May 4 (Bloomberg) -- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will present a $66 billion fiscal 2012 sp...


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cappsonline.org - By Hibah YousoufCNN April 21, 2011 It’s no secret that prominent short-seller Steve Eisman has been outspoken against the for-profit education sector, and he has the ear of lawmakers and the Depart...


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modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/05/californias-whooping-cough-epidemic-and.html"; There have already been 733 reported cases of whooping cough (Pertussis) in California this year...


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baycitizen.org - Hundreds of nurses are set to walk off the job at Children's Hospital Oakland Thursday morning, the second nurses' strike at the pediatric hospital in the last seven months. "The issues remain the ...


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educationresearchreport.blogspot.com - ΩMale characters, including male animals, leading the fictional packGender in Twentieth-Century Children's Books : Patterns of Disparity in Titles and Central CharactersThe most comprehensive study...


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