On Today’s Show:
A multi-media text set of children’s books and audio that focus on acts of courage and acts of kindness.

Save Our School by the Children of Selsted Primary
Si Se Puede, Yes We Can
The Streets are Free
Selavi and Radyo Timoun.
IndyKids
BabagaNewz
Kids Can Make A Difference® (KIDS)

Sage Tyrtle on Deamonte Love and schools in Louisiana who are still struggling in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Jeff Wood_What critical literacy means to me.

Thank You To:
Sage Tyrtle of Quirky Nomads, Pat Thompson, Karen,Sarah VZ, charles of Mostly News and Desperate Husbands Podcast, Fran Hughes from Queensland, Australia, jeff wood, from Sudbury Ontario in Canada, Carol Felderman, Laura Mayoral, Annika, Stephanie from Tokyo, and Shelley Peterson, for commenting on the show, contacting me regarding the show, or pinning my frappr map and Patrick and Catalina for today’s station ID.

Podcasters/ Podcasts/ Websites Mentioned:
Quirky Nomads, Mostly News, Desperate Husbands, BabagaNewz, IndyKids, Kids Can Make a Difference

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Transcript for Acts of Courage and Acts of Kindness
CLIP #16

Intro

Welcome to CLIP 16 everyone. I’m going to play around with the order of things today so rather than doing acknowledgements and thank you’s up front I’ll wait till later and jump right into the show. Let me know what you think of this format.

Before I get going though I want to extend a big hello to member of the Toronto Reading Council and folks from OISE with whom I had a wonderful time talking about critical literacy this past weekend.

Today, I pick up on last week’s show and the topic of taking action to change things that are problematic in our communities and beyond. I couldn’t get the voices of the children from Selsted Primary out of my head and so spent a number of days imagining what other texts might work nicely with the Save Our School song. So, what I have done is to put together a multi-media text set of children’s books and audio that focus on acts of courage and acts of kindness. I really do believe that in combination, the texts I will share work very well together to enrich and inform discussions and work on the issue of taking action to change inequitable ways of being.

Station ID – Patrick and Catalina

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Already, you know one piece I would include in today’s multi-modal text set is the Save Our School song which as I mentioned is a terrific demonstration of the power of music to shape political and social experiencel. So imagine, then combining this song with a book like Si Se Puede, Yes We Can, a bilingual book about the justice for janitors strike in LA as told from the perspective of a young boy whose mother becomes a leader of the strike. Another book that would be a powerful addition would be The Streets are Free by Kurusa and Monika Doppert which is a story based on the experience of children in a low income neighborhood in Venezuela who fought for the right to turn an empty lot into a playground. So it’s about organizing to defend your rights. Another book is Selavi, That’s Life which is a true story of Selavi, a street child in Haiti who shares food and a place to sleep with other street children who eventually contributes to opening a home for children and starting Radyo Timoun, Children’s Radio, a station run by and for children, which, until March of 2004, was still in operation.

Alongside these books you could include the publication IndyKids which I have talked about previously on the show. Since discovering IndyKids I’ve learned of BabagaNewz, which is a full-color monthly classroom magazine that accurately and thoughtfully analyzes major news stories, religious holidays, cultural events and youth trends that play an important part in our children’s lives. This particular magazine focuses each issue around a specific Jewish value. As in the past I will have links to each of these publications and resources in the show notes.

Kids Can Make A Difference® (KIDS), is another great addition to the text set. It is an educational program for middle- and high school students, which focuses on the root causes of hunger and poverty, the people most affected, solutions, and how students can help. The major goal is to stimulate the students to take some definite follow-up actions as they begin to realize that one person can make a difference.

Speaking of action, one of Sage Tyrtle’s recent shows on Quirky Nomads focuses on Deamonte Love and schools in Louisiana who are still struggling in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

In hopes of trying to contribute in some way I asked Sage, if she would let me air some audio form her show that very clearly explains what you and I can do to help kids in Louisiana to once again have access to books in their schools and homes since the devastation of the hurricanes.

Sage Tyrtle on Diamonte Love

I have a request for listeners who are either teachers or professors integrating this podcast into their course work or students who are tuning in as a course requirement to please either send me e-mail or voice mail telling me how you are using the show in your setting. I’d love to be able to create a list of ways the show has been used.

Jeff Wood- What Critical Literacy Means to Me

Before I go I have many people to thank this week. Sage Tyrtle of Quirky Nomads, Pat Thompson, Sarah VZ, charles of Mostly News and Desperate Husbands Podcast, Fran Hughes from Queensland, Australia, jeff wood, from Sudbury Ontario in Canada, Carol Felderman, Laura Mayoral, Annika, Stephanie from Tokyo, and Shelley Peterson… for commenting on the show, contacting me regarding the show, or pinning my frappr map. Thanks also to Karen for commenting on the Handy Manny episode on show #9. She says her son loves the show and it has in fact become his favorite. Now that the show has been running for several weeks, what do you think? Finally I want to thank Patrick and Catalina for today’s station ID.

Tags : Christmas, courage, culture, Disney, Diwali, Easter, Free Resources, halloween, Handy Manny, Media, OISE, power, pumpkin, Ramadan, Reading, Reference, thanksgiving, Toronto, Valentines