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Blog: Making History

Project: We Are America

Our communities, our country has much to learn from the wisdom of these courageous young people. They are contributing to, and sometimes, leading community conversations about identity and inclusion, helping to nurture empathy and understanding among people of different backgrounds and helping to create space for all young people to feel they belong. They are part of this country’s history and essential voices in shaping the country’s future.

Project Mulberry
Linda Sue Park

Project Mulberry

Free spirited Julia and her inquisitive friend Patrick are raising silk worms for the county fair — a project that’s a little too ‘Korean’ for all-American Julia’s tastes. The story, heavily influenced by first-generation American Park’s youth, is framed by entertaining ‘conversations’ between author and protagonist. A fun and funny story about prejudice, acceptance, and how to find a good source of Mulberry leaves.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Prom

Ashley, a high school senior, has no interest in the prom but gets sucked into helping organize it once the money for it disappears, changing Ash and her aspirations forever. This fast-paced novel examines class issues as well as high school life.
Elaine K. McEwan

Provide Models, Examples and Nonexamples

Similar to expert craftsmen teaching their trades to apprentices, teachers can model thinking and problem-solving skills to their students. Read more about various classroom modeling techniques.

WWC Interventions Grades 4 to 9
What Works Clearninghouse

Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4-9

The What Works Clearinghouse(TM) (WWC) developed this NEW practice guide in partnership with a panel of experts on reading interventions. The panel distilled recent reading intervention research into four easily comprehensible and practical recommendations that educators can use to deliver reading intervention to meet the needs of students in grades 4-9. 

Two young women walking towards one another
Julie Murphy

Puddin'

Genre:
Fiction
Age Level:
YA

Millie Michalchuk has gone to fat camp every year since she was a little girl. Not this year. This year she has new plans to chase her secret dream of being a newscaster—and to kiss the boy she’s crushing on. Callie Reyes is the pretty girl who is next in line for dance team captain and has the popular boyfriend. But when it comes to other girls, she’s more frenemy than friend.

When circumstances bring the girls together over the course of a semester, they surprise everyone (especially themselves) by realizing that they might have more in common than they ever imagined.

Punching the Air
Ibi Zoboi, Yusel Salaam

Punching the Air

Genre:
Fiction
Age Level:
YA

Sixteen-year-old Amal is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and is sent to prison where despair and rage almost sink him as he tries to maintain his humanity and fight for the truth in a system designed to strip him of both.

National Association of Secondary School Principals

Putting Assessment in the Driver's Seat

Take the lead to improve literacy for all students at your school. Implement regular school-wide monitoring of assessment results and student progress.