Social ethicist and scholar of American religions Jonathan L. Walton joined the faculty of Harvard Divinity School in July 2010 and President Drew Faust appointed him Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in...

Howard P. Chudacoff is the George L. Littlefield Professor of American History, Professor of Urban Studies at Brown University. During the past year, three of Howard's works were published in new editions: A People and a Nation, 7th...

Jessica Lahey is a teacher, writer, and mom. She writes about education, parenting, and child welfare for The Atlantic, Vermont Public Radio, and the New York Times, and is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Gift of...

Shulamith Chernoff was born in Brooklyn, New York and studied at the Teacher’s Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary, as well as Columbia University. Deeply influenced by her mother , a linguiist and publisher, and her father, a...

M. V. Lee Badgett is a Williams Distinguished Scholar at the Williams Institute. She is also the director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, as well as a professor of...

Sharif El-Mekki is the principal at Philadelphia’s Mastery Charter School-Shoemaker Campus, a neighborhood public charter that serves almost 800 students in grades 7-12. His team has been recognized by President Barack Obama and Oprah...

Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of more than 20 books and chapbooks for adults and children. Her critically acclaimed books for young adults include A Wreath for Emmett Till and the ground breaking Carver: A Life in Poems, a...

Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of more than 20 books and chapbooks for adults and children. Her critically acclaimed books for young adults include A Wreath for Emmett Till and the ground breaking Carver: A Life in Poems, a...

Maria Sassi, who was for several years Poet Laureate of West Hartford, Connecticut, is a prize-winning poet and playwright. Her first poetry collection, Rooted in Stars, now in its second printing, is part of The Beinecke Rare Book and...

Joe Weil is an assistant professor at Binghamton University. His reviews, essays, poems and short stories have appeared in Paterson Literary review, The Literati Quarterly, Rattle, Barnstorm, Blue Collar Review, Lips, The Boston Review,...

Dr. Howard Stevenson is the Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education, Professor of Africana Studies, and former Chair of the Applied Psychology and Human Development Division in the Graduate School of Education at the University of...

Daniel Donaghy is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Somerset, which was named co-winner of the 2019 Paterson Poetry Prize. His previous poetry collections are Start with the Trouble (University of Arkansas Press,...

Camille Zubrinsky Charles is Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Graduate School of Education, and the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is author...

Life Skills: self-awareness and empathy<br/>
Bella and Bay can’t decide on a movie to watch. But when Bay won’t give Bella the television remote, Bella angrily pushes her brother off the couch. Uh oh. Can you help her make it up to Bay?

Life Skills: decision making and problem solving

Bella is excited to go on a fun shopping trip today. However, she notices the weather is cold and rainy . What should Bella wear today? Should she wear her t-shirt and shorts, her...

Dr. Joy Lawson Davis is a career educator with over 30 years of experience in varied roles: classroom teacher; district program coordinator of gifted services; state level Director of Gifted Services; author, researcher, consultant, and...