Katha Pollitt is well known for her wit and her keen sense of both the ridiculous and the sublime. Her "Subject to Debate" column, which debuted in 1995 and which the Washington Post called "the best place to go for original thinking on the left," appears every other week in The Nation; it is frequently reprinted in newspapers across the country. In 2003, "Subject to Debate" won the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary. She is also a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute. Pollitt has been contributing to The Nation since 1980. Her 1992 essay on the culture wars, "Why We Read: Canon to the Right of Me..." won the National Magazine Award for essays and criticism, and she won a Whiting Foundation Writing Award the same year. In 1993 her essay "Why Do We Romanticize the Fetus?" won the Maggie Award from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Many of Pollitt's contributions to The Nation are compiled in three books: Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism (Knopf); Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture (Modern Library); and Virginity or Death! And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time (Random House). In 2007 Random House published her collection of personal essays, Learning to Drive and Other Life Stories. Two pieces from this book, "Learning to Drive" and its followup, "Webstalker," originally appeared in The New Yorker. "Learning to Drive" is anthologized in Best American Essays 2003. Pollitt has also written essays and book reviews for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Harper's, Ms., Glamour, Mother Jones, the New York Times, and the London Review of Books. She has appeared on NPR's Fresh Air and All Things Considered, Charlie Rose, The McLaughlin Group, CNN, Dateline NBC and the BBC. Her work has been republished in many anthologies and is taught in many university classes. For her poetry, Pollitt has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her 1982 book Antarctic Traveller won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poems have been published in many magazines and are reprinted in many anthologies, most recently The Oxford Book of American Poetry (2006). Her second collection, The Mind-Body Problem, came out from Random House in 2009. Born in New York City, she was educated at Harvard and the Columbia School of the Arts. She has lectured at dozens of colleges and universities, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brooklyn College, UCLA, the University of Mississippi and Cornell. She has taught poetry at Princeton, Barnard and the 92nd Street Y, and women's studies at the New School University.
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This 23 Behavior Interventions for The Kid Who Blurts, Blurts, and Blurts Some More is a resource made for the kid who's mouth is a volcano! (Perfect for PBIS schools!) As a teacher, if you are looking to reduce the number of classroom disruptions so that you can maximize your students' learning and build classroom community without constant redirections, then keep reading. What's inside: -Blurt Chart Anchor Chart -Behavior Consequence Card -Behavior Desk Reminders for Visual Expectations -Behavior Checklist -Chit Chat Mat -Silent Redirection Cards -Positive Notes Home (Praise Notes, Praise Emails, Praise Calls) -Wait to Participate Cards -Talkin' Tokens -Behavior Contracts -Blurt Box for Tracking Individual (or Whole Class) Blurts -Stop and Think Behavior Sheets -Secret Signals -Behavior Bingo for Blurting Out -Blurt Tracker -Brag Tags for Blurting (quiet queen and king) If you are a new teacher looking to build up your bag of tricks for classroom management, this resource includes so many different options to fit your students' individual needs. One year one thing may work great the entire year and you won't use anything else in this pack, another year you may have a kid who requires new interventions every few weeks. I tried to create enough of a variety to help you throughout an entire school year. I've used these behavior intervention strategies with my 2nd-4th graders and it has been such a game changer in my classroom. Here's what others have said: "With only 23 days left of school, this has been a life saver! I will be using this for the years to come. :)" "You are amazing! I have been teaching for 26 years and I wish I could have had this all those years. I'm so excited to use a positive approach to my "blurters"." This resource pairs well with the books Interrupting Chicken and My Mouth is Volcano. Also, it was designed to save your ink and quickly prep. I strongly recommend printing them all and putting them in a binder, so that when you need to instantly implement you can. This product is in my Behavior Series: The Kid Who Wastes TIme Other Behavior Resources You Might Like: *Whole Class Rewards *Behavior Charts
Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules.
