Don't forget that the National Book Festival is this coming Saturday at the Washington Convention Center. Events start at 10am and continue until 10pm.
September highlights include the signing of the Panama Canal Treaty and Neutrality Treaty and the first celebration of Labor Day in the United States of America.
Kate DiCamillo, the current National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, chose the theme Stories Connect Us and it resonated with me. So did Rebecca Newland's post on using DiCamillo's stories and primary sources to help draw students deeper into the story.
I love this blog post about Muybridge's stop-action photography because it's about technology, art, science....and the magic of in-between images. As the author writes: What can your students learn from the images that is not observable from the live action?