If you are going to teach kids programming, do it gently. You can scare kids away from coding for life if you approach it in the wrong way such as by forcing them to do it. If your child is showing resistance to coding, hold off for a few years until your child is older…
My First-To-College Mentee was interested in storyboarding as a career in the entertainment industry. Storyboarding can be the ultimate creative job — think Star Wars and who got to imagine that world with all the various types of aircraft and weaponry! But even commercials need storyboarding as a way to communicate to the client what…
Well, it’s been thirty years in the making but my sister’s piano teaching method books, Keiko and Sam’s Musical Journeys, are finally ready. I did the illustrations thirty years ago as well. In fact, it’s so long ago that I barely recognized some of the drawings. Noreen’s wrote Keiko and Sam’s Musical Journeys when the…
What is Genocide? Before 1944, the word genocide did not exist. In 1944, a Jewish lawyer from Poland named Raphael Lemkin wanted a way to describe the Nazi policies of systematic murder. He combined geno from the Greek word meaning “race” or “tribe” with cide, from a Latin word meaning “killing.” Today, the word genocide…
The New Orleans Holocaust Memorial Sculpture is an artistic visual prayer in memory of the Six Million Jews of Europe and those millions of other victims who were tortured and murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators from 1933-1945. The sculpture is composed of nine panels, each with different designs. As you view the scupture…
Please join me for our tenth Multicultural Children’s Book Club. We host a FREE multicultural children’s picture book virtual book club on the first Thursday of every month from 7 pm to 8 pm EST. July’s event will be held on July 7th and we are celebrating both National Clean Beaches Week (July…
Every year, we create a free and downloadable Classroom Kit for Multicultural Children’s Book Day on a specific theme: Racism Kindness Empathy (immigration and refugee experience) Homeschool Poverty Activism Disability The kits include activities, a discussion guide, a poster, and a book list. I create the book lists myself and keep a copy on my…