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NCFL
Apr 27, 2020
Apr 27, 2020
Nominations now being accepted for 2020 Toyota Family Teacher of the Year
Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops. —Henry Brooks Adams We are all impacted by teachers. From our early years to adolescence and beyond, the teachers in our lives guided and shaped us, offering us the tools we ...
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Laura McShane
Aug 22, 2019
Aug 22, 2019
Blast into Reading!
To commemorate NASA's 50th anniversary of the lunar landing and in celebration of National Literacy Month, McDonalds' has partnered with Reading Is Fundamental, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and Peanuts Worldwide to share ...
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Kristie Ennis
Feb 26, 2019
Feb 26, 2019
Sparking Wonder in Adulthood
As we grow older, our sense of wonder tends to move to the back burner. Adulting is hard, y'all! That doesn't mean wonder disappears; it just means that we have to consciously work to give ourselves space and time to spark that wonder. From wonder ...
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Laura McShane
Feb 15, 2019
Feb 15, 2019
Picturing America
I first became aware of the National Center for Families Learning and Wonderopolis as part of a suite of FREE Open Educational Resources - searchable through the Verizon Thinkfinity platform. Also included in this suite of resources was the ...
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NCFL
Feb 1, 2019
Feb 1, 2019
Call for Proposals now open for 2019 Families Learning Conference
Planning is underway for the 2019 Families Learning Conference, held Monday, November 4 to Wednesday, November 6! This year’s Conference will bring an extra dose of excitement for attendees as the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL) will ...
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Kristie Ennis
Dec 18, 2018
Dec 18, 2018
Sustaining Wonder into 2019
Always looking for ways to incorporate wonder into my professional and personal improvement, I recently found a workshop offering called "Sustaining Wonder: The Art of Narrative." In this Hugo House class, Carolyne Wright plans to share techniques ...
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Kristie Ennis
Oct 15, 2018
Oct 15, 2018
Using Questions to Invite Wonder & Empathy into School
“This book is for teachers who want something better for their students and who believe in each child’s capacity for deep and creative thinking” (3). Having waited for Think Like Socrates for over a month, I am thrilled to review it for The ...
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Amy Rudd
Oct 14, 2018
Oct 14, 2018
Using Wonderopolis to Inspire Poetry Writing
A few years ago, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater at the Poem Farm inspired me to write poems about the Wonder of the Day from Wonderopolis. She called it, "Wallow in Wonder". During National Poetry Month, I am always inspired to write a poem or two but ...
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Carol Varsalona
Oct 11, 2018
Oct 11, 2018
What's The Art of Summering?
My concept of summering started many years ago as a young girl. I grew to love the summer season that always allowed me to relax, reflect, and re-energize. Back then during the long days of summer, neighborhood children played stone teacher on ...
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Laura McShane
Oct 6, 2018
Oct 6, 2018
Blind spots
This past week, a mom asked me to help her second grader, reading at a fifth grade level, to find chapter books suitable for her daughter to read. Mom and daughter were both born in China. This mom, like a lot of moms, picks out the books for her ...
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Carol Varsalona
Aug 9, 2018
Aug 9, 2018
"Summering"
Each summer day and evening brings a surprise, a gift from nature, if we just pause to look. On Long Island, New York where I live, "There's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many ...
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NCFL
Jun 25, 2018
Jun 25, 2018
It’s here! Schedule published for the 2018 Families Learning Conference
The full schedule of concurrent sessions, general sessions, and special events is available on the 2018 Families Learning Conference website. Check out who’s presenting and what topics will be addressed! This year’s Conference will feature ...
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Laura McShane
Jun 12, 2018
Jun 12, 2018
Summer Learning- Brewers of Cleveland
My Cleveland neighborhood, Brooklyn Centre, has one of the oldest cemeteries in the Cleveland area. It is the distinguished resting place for many of the founders of Cleveland - the early settlers of the region. The Cleveland Metroparks has an ...
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Kristie Ennis
May 22, 2018
May 22, 2018
Wonder Abounds in Springtime
This weekend, I had the opportunity to spend some time at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois. It was an overcast, but warm day and the springtime blooms did not disappoint. There is never a shortage of wonder in this beautiful place, whose ...
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Carol Varsalona
May 21, 2018
May 21, 2018
Wish Weeds of Springtime
When I was a child, the neighborhood children often engaged in imaginative play. Each spring, we gathered little whites globes found in our lawn to wish upon them. As our cottony, garden ornaments dispersed across the sky, we marveled at these tiny ...
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Laura McShane
May 10, 2018
May 10, 2018
Summer Reading Clubs
It's that heady time of year as the weather warms up and teachers are antsy for the school year to end. It is also that time of year, when librarians feel an overwhelming sense of dread as we are tasked to keep students from falling prey to the ...
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