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The MacArthur grant-winning environmental justice activist's
riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for
America's most vulnerable A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best
Science Book of 2020 Catherine Coleman Flowers, a 2020 MacArthur
"genius," grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been
called "Bloody Lowndes" because of its violent, racist history.
Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground
Zero for a new movement that is also Flowers's life's work-a fight
to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for
granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural
poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste
from their toilets and, as a consequence, live amid filth. Flowers
calls this America's dirty secret. In this "powerful and moving
book" (Booklist), she tells the story of systemic class, racial,
and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions not
just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central
California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on
Native American reservations in the West. In this inspiring story
of the evolution of an activist, from country girl to student civil
rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan
Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative, Flowers shows how sanitation
is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings
sewage to more backyards-not only those of poor minorities.
The MacArthur grant-winning environmental justice activist's
riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for
America's most vulnerable A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best
Science Book of 2020 Catherine Coleman Flowers, a 2020 MacArthur
"genius," grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been
called "Bloody Lowndes" because of its violent, racist history.
Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground
Zero for a new movement that is also Flowers's life's work-a fight
to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for
granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural
poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste
from their toilets and, as a consequence, live amid filth. Flowers
calls this America's dirty secret. In this "powerful and moving
book" (Booklist), she tells the story of systemic class, racial,
and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions not
just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central
California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on
Native American reservations in the West. In this inspiring story
of the evolution of an activist, from country girl to student civil
rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan
Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative, Flowers shows how sanitation
is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings
sewage to more backyards-not only those of poor minorities.
If your goal is to create a collaborative culture that enhances
learning and enriches the entire school community, you’ll want
this book! Part of the Shared Foundations series, this book
examines effective implementation of the Shared Foundation
Collaborate from the National School Library Standards. Readers
will discover strategies for establishing deeper connections to
school curriculum and mission, activating collaborative
opportunities, facilitating learning networks, modeling respect
while working in diverse groups, and moving beyond support and
resources to instructional partners. Examining the Domains of
Think, Create, Share, and Grow reveals the development of the
collaborative mindset in learners at different grade levels and how
making both physical space and time space contribute to shaping a
culture of collaboration across the learning community. Brimming
with authentic examples of Collaborate in action, this book offers
strategies for strengthening collaborative relationships with
administrators and other educators by leading mission-based
professional development; engaging lesson ideas and projects that
scaffold learning and promote voice and choice while building the
mindset of Collaborate in learners; trajectories for developing
Collaborate skills in grades K-12 and mapping or documenting
learners’ growth; and complete renovations and smaller
incremental changes to school libraries that demonstrate
opportunities to rethink learning and create space for
collaboration in all settings. By understanding what the Shared
Foundation of Collaborate can look like in K-12 environments,
school librarians can better position themselves as essential to
cultivating collaborative learning communities. Examination copies
are available for instructors who are interested in adopting this
title for course use.
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