Lantern Craft Completing Lunar New Year Education
Watch the full video below👇 Festival and tradition: On the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar Chinese calendar, a lantern festival, marks the full moon, and the…
Lunar New Year 2025: The Year of the Snake
THENCE illustrator extraordinaire, Nikita Lai Jing Tse has created this timely craft to connect students to the cultural significance of the Lunar New Year, and this year’s zodiac animal: The…
Holiday Wellness: The webzine that supports families during the weeks and months of school holidays
In late 2023, THENCE launched a Webzine specifically designed to help families particularly with younger children think about activities and avoid moments of stress during the school winter break. This…
Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Interested in the meaning and origins of Indigenous Peoples’ Day? We share this video of Deb Haaland and Rodney A. Butler speaking on Indigenous People’s Day in 2019. We include…
Why an end-of-the alphabet last name could skew your grades
By Jill Barshay, The Hechinger Report. This story was developed at /was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet focused on education. This story [Why an end-of-the alphabet last name…
Video Tutorial Halloween Paper Chain Patterns
Halloween Paper Chain Patterns – This Month™ 🎃 Halloween Paper Chain Patterns 🦇 Create Spooky Repeating Pattern Decorations! Perfect for Grades K-5 | Ages 5-11 Your browser does not support…
Literacy Instruction for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
By Michelle A. Duffy, Literacy Instruction for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Kristen A. Munger (OpenSUNY) Abstract This chapter addresses…
Writing About Disability
Learning Objectives: By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Identify and avoid problematic language choices related to disability.
Articulate why word choices in general should be deliberate and considered.
The High Holy Days in the Jewish Calendar October 2024
New Jersey Public Schools recognize many days in the month of October, and you can see the List of Religious Holidays Permitting Pupil Absence From School here however, the high…
September is for Celebrating Literacy!
This year International Literacy Day fell on a Sunday, and we celebrated at home with… you guessed it… books! International Literacy Day is important to me because I think about…
