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 Check out these links to new features and training being offered by Discovery Streaming (a video platform) to which we currently subscribe. Discovery Education Experience  - product updates to Discovery Streaming including upgrades to interactive instructional platform and lesson delivery. Upcoming Professional Development  - webinars and other tools to help you get up and running on a variety of virtual platforms. Instructional Resources, strategies and ideas Remember both staff and students sign in using their school Google credentials:  Discovery Education Hope you find this helpful.   

Learning to see the world through another lens, specifically the lens of our students can be culturally and generationally difficult. Here's some reading for teachers to help them see the world from the perspective of black and brown peoples in America. I Thought I Understood what School was like for My Students of Color

Find out how you can borrow library materials as New York begins to reopen after PAUSE. Besides virtual programs and digital collections the Hendrick Hudson Free Library and the Field Library in Peekskill now have curbside pick up. Learn how you can access these services by visiting their websites. Hendrick Hudson Free Library Field Library Happy Reading!

National Geographic article discussing the power of the East India Company .

Kerner Commission Appointed in 1968 to examine the cause of the deadly race riots in Detroit, Michigan, and Newark, New Jersey as well as throughout the country in 1967. The Kerner Commission findings highlight many of the same issues continue to fuel the protests today.

An article urging educators to consider the emotional link between reading and sharing news and how we need to factor in these new ways of thinking about media literacy and our emotional state and biases. News Literacy Must Include Social Emotional Learning by  Jennifer LaGarde and Darren Hudgins from School Library Journal May 26, 2020 | Filed in  News & Features