Please welcome my friend Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett! Her fabulous site, Miss Panda Chinese, has playful and engaging Chinese language programs for early childhood education organizations and elementary schools. She is also the host of Playful Chinese podcast. Her “Let’s Learn Mandarin Chinese with Miss Panda!” album has been introducing Mandarin Chinese to families that are new…
My Kickstarter project launches on Monday, February 15! I’ll be sharing videos of some of the incredible athletes included in my middle-grade picture book anthology during the duration of my funding period. Today, I wanted to share more about Eun Jung “EJ” Lee Ok who is considered to be one of the greatest point guards…
This statue caught my eye when I was visiting Carnegie Mellon University with my daughter. The man looked like my father! I had to learn more. Mao Yisheng was a famous engineer and first Ph.D. recipient at Carnegie Mellon University. Mao came to Pittsburgh, a city of bridges, to learn about bridge construction for his…
It’s strange but personal finance is not often taught in school which means we, as parents, need to teach our kids how to handle money when they get out of school and into the real world. Let’s be honest, many of us are still trying to figure this out ourselves, so teaching our kids these…
What exactly was the Boston Massacre and why is it an important milestone in American history? Let’s follow along Boston’s Freedom Trail and find out! The American Revolution was ignited by this single incident. The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. It began as…
Students around the world had to adjust to learning at home instead of going to traditional classrooms in 2020. Suddenly, parents discovered that they didn’t have spaces conducive to learning at home. Whether your student gets to go back to school or keeps struggling with distance learning, you know that you need a place set…
Today, I’m going to examine sexual misconduct with two examples. Let’s start with the more public one, Jeb Rubenfeld, Yale Law School tenured professor and husband to Tiger Mom, Amy Chua. Yale Law Professor, Jeb Rubenfeld, Suspended for Sexual Misconduct This is from New York Magazine: A two year suspension, however, was not was the…