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Toby Shepherd is executive director of the Nowell Leadership Academy, a public charter high school founded to serve pregnant and parenting young adults.

He talked with me, still early in the COVID-19 crisis, about how his staff and students were…

Today I talked to the radiant Mary-Kim Arnold, dearest friend, exceptional writer, brilliant artist, big thinker, compassionate and thoughtful human, and the person who eats doughnuts with me.

(Enthusiastic plug: Tomorrow happens to be the…

As the world reels from a global pandemic, I’ve been touched and gratified by the many ways people are coping and connecting.

Whether it is singing from the balconies in Italy, weddings performed on the street in NYC, “Knock It Off” t-shirts in…

This video was created for a social studies assignment given to help the De La Salle 8th grade students reflect on the unusual and historic situation brought about by the COVID 19 pandemic. One goal of the project was to give the students a way to…

Title: Abue! Play Production Achieving the 'American dream' has always been a priority for the Rodriguez family. Through vignettes of events we meet Fernando, an adventurous businessman and Marta, the backbone of Fernando’s success. But the more…

This was a poem written by a hockey mom team manager as part of an end-of-the-year gift to 14-year-old hockey boys from the Providence Hockey Club Tier 1 07 team.

This video was created in response to Becci Davis' "Ode to Home" workshops, part of Providence Public Library's Adaptive Practices series in Spring 2020. Participants were asked to create their own "Ode to Home" and to create a video that reflected…

A symbolic comparison of Covid-19 with the Black Death: two sets of related symbols chosen to compare the two pandemics - masks, herbs, & sanitizer.

Mrs. Payan and her 4th grade bilingual class joined a virtual RI COVID-19 Archive activity with Project Coordinator for Latinx/Spanish-Language Outreach & Promotion, Yuselly Mendoza. Together the classroom discussed and expressed their pandemic…