Our students are bright, engaged and eager to learn. We are a close-knit K-8 school, which provides opportunities for students to work and learn together. Since we are located in rural Vermont, educational opportunities are not always close by or easily accessible. Students love to meet people and learn about new experiences. They want to go deeper and understand more about the world around them.
Teachers work hard to bring new experiences to our students by teaching them about diverse cultures, interesting places and important people in our history.
We have students of families who are financially well-off to having homeless children in our schools but there is an atmosphere of caring and concern for children from all backgrounds.
A visit from a published author is an opportunity for students to discover the realities of an exciting career path, one that they might not otherwise be exposed to. We have many students who are voracious readers, and meeting an author will allow them to imagine their own path as an author one day.
My Project
Author visits are an enriching and engaging way for students to understand a writer’s path to success and they are a valuable learning experience for students at our school. Coming to our school in March of 2017 is the renowned author Tanya Lee Stone, who has won several prestigious book awards for telling stories that have not been told of women and people of color. Our students will be educated and enlightened about topics beyond their daily classroom learning .
Our students will gain knowledge of world issues that are currently being addressed by Tanya Lee Stone's work.
Take for example her latest book entitled Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time coming out on Valentine’s Day, 2017. The book explores why 62 million girls globally are not being educated and what can be done about it. Her book follows the film which takes the same name and chronicles the stories of nine girls in the developing world. She focuses on the girls captured on camera as well as many others and examines the barriers to education such as poverty, gender discrimination, and childhood marriage.
Tanya Lee Stone is a writer of nonfiction books whose work has been recognized by such awards as the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Robert F. Sibert Medal for nonfiction as well as the NAACP Image Award. Her book about Elizabeth Blackwell entitled, Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors? was a popular title with students in Vermont in 2014. Tanya Lee Stone has written more than 100 books for children and our students will be inspired by her passion for her work. They will greatly benefit from her knowledge of the writing process and gain further insight into choosing a topic, doing the research, and the importance of revision.
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