Posts Tagged ‘Nancy Bo Flood’
NCTE Panel on Mental Health for Young People
Stories help us make sense of our world. Stories also help us understand ourselves and others. At the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) conference, our panel of four…
Read MoreSocial and Emotional Books
More good books are coming out that address the important issue of social-emotional problems facing kids today.
Read MoreSharing our Northern Marianas Islands Connections
“The ocean does not divide us, it connects us.”
Read MoreThe Gift of Old Friends
The gift of being with old friends, Anna Yamada, special education teacher on Saipan for over 30 years.
Read MoreTraveling to Saipan
I’ve been invited to return to Saipan this July to help teach a special “on site” symposium for educators. I invite you to “come along.”
Read MoreSwish, Basketball
I am honored to have a poem included in What is a Friend?, the newest poetry anthology from Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong. (Listen to me read this essay. Scroll…
Read MoreRead at Home: a New School Year
Approximately 450 subscriptions of Highlights’ High Five children’s “learning and literacy” magazine will begin arriving at schools on a variety of tribal nations.
Read MoreFind the fire in your writing!
I hope you’ll join me, in person or via livestream, for Creative Writing I and II, offered through Colorado Mountain College.
Read MoreWalking Grandma Home
Looking forward to Walking Grandma Home being available to children and families, January 10, 2023, from Zonderkidz.
Read MoreA month … a year of poetry
Thank you for sharing this month of poetry. Poetry is quiet. Poetry roars. May poetry be part of many of your days this year.
Read MoreJane Yolen
Can you tell us how your recent book When Nana Dances came to be? My co-author on this book, Maddison Stemple-Piatt, is my granddaughter. She was ten years old, in ballet…
Read MoreMental Health: The Giver
Lois Lowry: “I think it’s something that literature does, that writing does, that speaking about things does. It keeps our hearts from breaking.”
Read MoreWriting the Story of Mental Illness for Young Readers
I have been pulled toward the subject of suicide since I was a teen despite its stigma, and worked on my first suicide hotline when I was eighteen. That’s because as an adolescent I struggled not only with depression but with some periods of suicidality, and I understand the dangerous power and seduction of it when one is suffering mental despair.
Read MoreKindness
You don’t have to be good or first
Not even smartest or most right.
If you are kind, that is what our world needs most.
Read at Home
Remember when you were a child and how fun it was to have your very own copy of Highlights … or any children’s magazine? Children haven’t changed. Research shows that…
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