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Our very own Lily Eskelsen was honored today by the Latino Leaders Network with their Eagle Leadership Award. She was recognized for her  “outstanding contributions to the Latino community” and her dedication as an educator.

Juan Sepúlveda, former director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans, introduced Lily as someone  who serves as  “a voice for teachers across the country,” who is not afraid to be honest, and who has a personal story that represents the American Dream.

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Who are some of the other famous Latinos who have received this prestigious award?

You may recognize the names…

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March 2nd was chosen by the National Education Association years ago to celebrate NEA’s Read Across America Day.

It’s Dr. Seuss’s birthday, and each year is another chance to celebrate a joy that goes beyond sounding out the word and improving one’s vocabulary. Teachers and college professors and school custodians and librarians and bus drivers will be reminding their students that reading is fun.

School lunch ladies will be scrambling Green Eggs and Ham. School principals will be showing kids How to Eat Fried Worms. There will be Read-a-Thons and authors talking about books that make them cry and book illustrators demonstrating their craft.

Governors will do photo ops with a Cat-in-the-Hat hat. Oh, The Places We Will Go on March 2nd. Dr. Seuss would be proud, were he alive, to be the center of such joy, I like to think. (more…)