Joe Jiménez ’12 (Los Angeles, MFA) was named to the Latino Book Review’s 2017 Reading Challenge book list with his debut young adult novel Bloodline, about a 17-year old Mexican-American boy grappling with the trials of family, legacy, violence, and young love.
Kate Sipe ’02
What if classrooms were envisioned as a small democracy? What if our students practiced democracy in their classroom year after year? Further, what if they knew they deserved it? Kate Sipe, ’02, Antioch University Seattle MA in Education with Graduate Teacher Preparation and an adjunct faculty who teaches Classroom Management courses, published a timely post in Medium in the wake of the 2020 Presidential election about the importance of democratic schools and teaching civics to our children: “Psst… Hey teachers… Let’s teach civics in our classrooms every single day.” Start today. Start small. Just start. Let your classroom be a microcosm