2019 NCTE and Penguin Random House Maya Angelou Teacher Award for Poetry Winner: Rick Coppola, South Loop Elementary (IL)

  “Speak Yo’ Peace” Rick’s passion and commitment to educational equity have taken root over the course of his 14-year career as a middle school ELA teacher in the Chicago Public Schools. He has developed his activist stance through doctoral work at the University of Illinois of Chicago, where he studies culturally sustaining pedagogy, disciplinary

Read more

Restorative ocean farmer Bren Smith discusses the future of food through creating a sustainable environment

Bren Smith, author of Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures Farming the Ocean to Fight Climate Change and Executive Director of Greenwave gives an inside view of the process of ocean farming and its potential to save the planet in two informative videos. Bren Smith discusses his vision of making ocean farming a widespread phenomenon

Read more