Social Emotional Learning

Katherine Schlatter
April 16, 2024
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Why not ask a parent?

Are you in the market for more children’s books that carry meaningful stories and introduce the children in your care to new concepts, ideas, people and situations that make them…

Katherine Schlatter
March 20, 2024
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SABAR Books: Let’s talk book curation this Women’s History Month

Let’s discuss book curation, classroom pedagogy, and children’s literature from some of the most amazing women voices this Women’s History Month. Here we highlight amazing female scholars, Louise Derman-Sparks, Rudine…

Katherine Schlatter
March 19, 2024
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Let’s talk about stereotypes and how to spot them in children’s books

One of the first things that Louise Derman-Sparks asked library curators to watch out for is books containing stereotypes which are unfair mischaracterizations and generalizations about a group. These two…

Katherine Schlatter
March 12, 2024
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Why not ask a child? The power of child-led curation.

Ask an older child to take a look back through their library at books from when they were younger. What do they see? Ask them to pick out three of…

Ashley Causey-Golden
February 29, 2024
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What are you doing this LEAP year?

As we enjoy this bonus day of black history month, we are also intersecting and amplifying Her-story. Check out this amazing family activity brought to us by Partner company Afrocentric…

THENCE Editorial Team
January 28, 2024
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From the reflective to the personal: Remembering and contextualizing our own narratives this BHM

Reading about Dr. Gholdy Muhammad’s pedagogies is beneficial in making our teaching practices more reflective. This is because Dr. Muhammad offers a specific framework with key questions through her Historically…