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Staff Link 2/10/2008

Fayerweather celebrates its 40th birthday with a lecture series for everyone who cares about kids. Please join us to hear what today's leading educators have to say about children's learning.
11/15 Susan Linn - Consuming Kids: The effects of media and commercial marketing on children, the magnitude of the problem and what can be done.
Link to Lecture Poster - Link to Susan Linn's Website
1/17 Enid Lee - Books that Build Bigger Bridges to Self and Others: Books and other resources that help youngsters develop healthy cultural and racial identities and work for fairness and justice in their world.
Link to Lecture Poster - Link to Enid Lee's Website
2/7 Alfie Kohn - The (Progressive) Schools Our Children Deserve: What progressive education is (and isn't), why research supports it, how schools are implementing the ideas, and why it's easy to slide back into traditional practices.
Link to Lecture Poster - Link to Alfie Kohn's Website
3/6 Jenna Blum: Those Who Save Us (A Special Library Benefit Reading) Jenna Blum recorded dozens of testimonials for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation's archives. Her investigation of her own Jewish/German heritage inspired her writing of Those Who Save Us, now in its 10th paperback printing.
Tickets are $10 at the door. (This is not part of the Whole Child Series.)
Link to Library Benefit Reading Poster - Link to Jenna Blum's Website
4/10 Mica Pollock - Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real about Race in School: Her findings from sixty five experts in race and education studies offer short, clear and concrete strategies for equalizing opportunity on a moment to moment basis.
Link to Lecture Poster - Link to Mica Pollock's Profile
All lectures begin at 7:00. Suggested $5.00 donation will go to the FSS library.