School Library February 2018

To call Juan Felipe Herrera an accomplished writer would be a gross understatement. Not only did one of his children’s book, “Calling the Doves,” win the Ezra Jack Keats Award and another of his works, “The Upside Down Boy,” was turned into a musical, but Herrera is also the first Latino to become a United States’ poet laureate. And so it is with great honor that we feature Herrera in this month’s school library. Information, Teacher’s Guides and Author Study Toolkit courtesy of Lee & Low Books.

William Paterson University Communication Students Travel to Puerto Rico to Help Restore Hurricane-ravaged Radio Station

Arizona University Gets $1.9M to Research Future of TV News [Education News]

Arizona State University's journalism school is getting nearly $2 million in funding to research the future of television news. The grant announced Thursday will go toward experiments in broadcast and digital storytelling. It will also fund the establishment of an online hub where TV newsrooms can share research and innovations.

Disney Offering Staff $1,000 Bonuses, New Education Funding

The Walt Disney Co. will give more than 125,000 eligible employees a one-time $1,000 cash bonus and invest $50 million in an education funding program. Nearly 88,000 hourly employees will be eligible for the education program which will cover tuition costs. Along with the initial $50 million investment, the Burbank, California company will provide up to $25 million annually for the program.

List of Nominees for the 90th Annual Academy Awards [Beyond Education]

The 90th annual Academy Awards nominees for the categories Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Directing, Foreign Language Film, Adapted Screenplay, Original Screenplay, Animated Feature Film, Production Design, Cinematography, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Original Score, Original Song, Documentary Feature, Documentary (short subject), Film Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film and Visual Effects.

Philadelphia Library Names New City Poet Laureate: Raquel Salas Rivera [Beyond Education]

A poet who originally moved from Puerto Rico to Philadelphia for graduate school has been named the city's new poet laureate. Thirty-two-year-old bilingual poet Raquel Salas Rivera was named the poet laureate for 2018-2019 in a ceremony at the Free Library of Philadelphia on Monday.

Fostering a Culture of Inclusion: MIT Takes a Hard Look at Itself by <b>Jeff Simmons</b>

I get the impression that the majority of people here see that having a diverse environment is important to being a place that is excellent. Most people would argue that those two things are reasonably, strongly connected.” “Diversity is not incompatible with excellence, and homogeneity is not synonymous with excellence. ... the way I see it, diversity and excellence go together.” “Whenever we talk about diversity, the conversation immediately goes to ‘we have to maintain excellence.’ ... people see a tension ... can’t say ‘diversity’ and assume excellence is included.”

Arts Education and Hispanics by <b>Gustavo A. Mellander</b>

A National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) study, “Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools” reports Hispanic students are disproportionally found lodged among the arts opportunity gap.

List of Winners for 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards [Beyond Education]

List of winners for the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards, including Disney•Pixar’s “Coco," which won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Film. In 2017, the GRAMMY™ Music Education Coalition (GMEC) teamed up with Disney•Pixar’s “Coco” to bring best-in-class music from the film and learning content to teachers and youth.

ASU Professor a Prizewinning Documentarian of Chicano History

Paul Espinosa grew up in America among a wealth of family members whose ancestors settled in the western region of the United States centuries ago. From family members, he gained inspiration and a drive to pursue whatever career he chose. For six years, he’s been a professor at Arizona State University in the School of Transborder Studies.

Patricia Zavella: Exceptional Teacher, First-Rate Scholar, Committed Activist <b> Clay Latimer </b>

As chair of Latin American and Latino studies, Professor Patricia Zavella is charged with making things run smoothly in her department at the University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC). But her job doesn’t end on the picturesque campus, nestled in the redwood forests and meadows overlooking Monterey Bay. Zavella spends much of her time in another part of the county – another world, really – the migrant labor neighborhoods in nearby Watsonville. For a decade, the acclaimed cultural anthropologist interviewed and observed migrant people for her forthcoming book, I’m Neither Here Nor There: Mexicans’ Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty.

Literature an Enduring Passion for Professor Ester González <b> Clay Latimer </b>

It was an ordinary day for most students at Johns Hopkins University. Classes, exams, meetings – the routine routine. But there was nothing mundane about it for Ester Gimbernat González, a young, ambitious literature student from Argentina. Filled with anticipation, she stepped for the first time into the campus library, a vast place where every section was lined with books she wanted to read or catch up on. “When the doors opened, I was so happy, I couldn’t leave,” she said. “I was in heaven.”