Picnic de Libros ¡en casa! es un evento multidisciplinario y bilingüe que busca acercar a los niños a la literatura y a las artes, a través de cuentos, poemas, trabalenguas, adivinanzas y música. Contaremos con la música de la gran Lena Burke, ganadora del Latin Grammy, quien nos deleitará con música tradicional Cubana para niños. También regresan los jóvenes estudiantes del […]
Ashli St. Armant is a celebrated vocalist, writer, arts educator, and founder of Leaping Lizards Music, a music and theater education program for students, preschool through 12th grade. She tours the United States with her band, Jazzy Ash and the Leaping Lizards, performing jazz for young audiences. Together they have performed at numerous venues including […]
Now that you’ve created your own instruments from things you had at home, you have to promote your at-holme concert with a poster! Follow along with Justin to make your own band poster and get the show started! All you need is: Piece of paper, or poster board Markers Pencil A band name! Justin Roberts […]
wemWe all came from somewhere and everyone has a story! Find out why, when, and how people have come to call Miami home. Hear stories about immigrants from places in the Caribbean like the Bahamas, Haiti, and Cuba, and how they have helped to make Miami the place it is today. Recommended Reading: Where are […]
Join writer, editor, educator, and social commentator Roxane Gay, author of the New York Times-bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist and the novel An Untamed State, for what’s sure to be an insightful and sharply focused discussion of her work, cultural touch points and personal views. She’s speaking with award-winning journalist and LGBTQ advocate Channing Gerard […]
LIVE! Event starts Friday, November 20 @ 4 p.m. Using Scratch, kids will design and craft their own playable platformer game in under an hour as we use these games to create new adventures and stories! How to prepare for this workshop: Sign up for a free account at https://scratch.mit.edu/ You can also create a […]
Autores internacionales nos presentan sus obras, en una amena conversación entre amigos. Almudena Grandes conversa con su editor Juan Cerezo sobre La madre de Frankenstein. Narradora y columnista, Grandes se dio a conocer en 1989 con Las edades de Lulú (XI Premio La Sonrisa Vertical). Desde entonces el aplauso de los lectores y de la […]
Professor Sharon Plotkin has been a crime scene investigator for over 21 years and with her experience has written two textbooks and has presented in many venues in educating our students of today to be crime scene investigators tomorrow. This presentation will discuss the importance of accurate and dynamic textbooks to compliment effective teaching practices. […]
“Money. Money. Money. Money.” And so begins People Die in Sunshine, Gloria Nagy's fast-paced tale of greed, glamour, envy, and avarice in the aftermath of a vicious double homicide. Nagy’s cast of characters – wildly diverse in ethnicity, wealth, morality, and status – are by turn warm, entertaining, engaging, and comical, and as the murder […]
For some young students, portrayals of minorities in the media not only affect how they are perceived, but how they perceive themselves. In fact, 2 in 3 Black Americans don’t feel properly represented in media, according to #RepresentationMatters, a recently released study from National Research Group (NRG). Professor Yanatha Desouvre will discuss why representation matters […]
Professors Lourdes España and Sharon Plotkin present an interdisciplinary study abroad program between the criminal justice and mathematics disciplines and how they will use statistics to compare the criminal justice systems between the U.S. and England. The program is designed for students whose interests are in the criminal justice fields with an emphasis on statistics, […]
We need to embrace technology to make learning more engaging, because when students are engaged and interested, that's where learning takes place. A special math learning guide has been prepared to provide insight into how to solve math problems using online engines and programs, such as Microsoft Mathematics, Wolfram Alpha, and Symbolab, as well as […]