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Thoughtful Thursday: Congratulations Sonia Sanchez

Today's Thoughtful Thursday pays tribute to the renowned poet Sonia Sanchez, who recently was awarded the 2018 Wallace Stevens Award by the Academy of American Poets. The award is given annually to one poet to recognize his or her outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry, and carries a stipend of $100,000. Poet, playwright, and children’s book [...]

By |2023-05-21T17:50:05-04:00September 6th, 2018|Academics, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 8-12, Books, Cultural, Entertainment, Featured, Latest News, Resources, Thoughtful Thursday|Comments Off on Thoughtful Thursday: Congratulations Sonia Sanchez

Talk To Your Children About Colin Kaepernick and Nike

The new Nike ad campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick has everyone talking, and we should be talking to our children about it. As you probably know, Nike has made Kaepernick the face of its 30th anniversary campaign. Kaepernick announced this a few days ago by tweeting a close up of his face, with the message "Believe in something. Even if [...]

By |2023-05-21T17:50:05-04:00September 5th, 2018|Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 8-12, Cultural, Featured, Latest News, Motivators, Parents, Sports|Comments Off on Talk To Your Children About Colin Kaepernick and Nike

Thoughtful Thursday: Poem for Aretha

Today's Thoughtful Thursday honors the Queen of Soul as the world mourns her passing with a "Poem for Aretha" which Nikki Giovanni wrote in 1971. Here Giovanni celebrates Aretha Franklin's amazing talent and implores us all to remember that although she has the voice of an angel, she is actually a working mother with a brutal work schedule who [...]

By |2023-05-21T17:50:06-04:00August 30th, 2018|Cultural, Featured, Latest News, Thoughtful Thursday|Comments Off on Thoughtful Thursday: Poem for Aretha

Lots of Great Back-to-School Tips for Parents

GCP co-hosted the Back-to-School #ReadinessCheck Chat last Wednesday, along with @BeALearningHero, @GreatSchools, @NationalPTA and other education advocates. This lively session offered a lot of great suggestions as to how parents can best help their children to be ready for a strong start to the school year. Here are some of the highlights: How to Prep For the New School [...]

By |2023-05-21T17:50:06-04:00August 28th, 2018|Academics, Ages 13-15, Ages 5-7, Ages 8-12, Featured, Latest News, Parents, Resources, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Lots of Great Back-to-School Tips for Parents

Thoughtful Thursday: U. S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith

On June 14, 2017, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden (one of the subjects of last week's Thoughtful Thursday) appointed Tracy K. Smith as the twenty-second United States Poet Laureate. In case you were wondering, the U.S. Poet Laureate serves as the official poet of the United States, and seeks to promote a greater national appreciation of the reading and [...]

By |2023-05-21T17:50:06-04:00August 23rd, 2018|Academics, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Cultural, Featured, Latest News, Resources, Thoughtful Thursday|Comments Off on Thoughtful Thursday: U. S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith

Join GCP in a Back-To-School Twitter Chat on Wednesday, August 22!

Tomorrow afternoon at 2 PM (Eastern Standard Time), please join Ground Control Parenting, Learning Heroes, GreatSchools and National PTA for a Twitter chat discussion on how parents can help children succeed in the upcoming school year.  We will be sharing ideas and resources, using the hashtag #ReadinessCheck. We at GCP are so excited to join this national conversation about [...]

By |2023-05-21T17:50:06-04:00August 21st, 2018|Academics, Books, Experts, Featured, Latest News, Motivators, Parents, Resources|Comments Off on Join GCP in a Back-To-School Twitter Chat on Wednesday, August 22!

Thoughtful Thursday: Nikki Giovanni and Carla Hayden Love Libraries

Don't you just love a good public library? Those of us born in the pre-internet world fondly remember wandering up and down the isles of the local public library, looking for the next great read or the critical info for that paper due too soon. Public libraries today have adapted to the new digital world and are still going [...]

By |2023-05-21T17:50:06-04:00August 16th, 2018|Academics, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 5-7, Ages 8-12, Books, Cultural, Experts, Featured, Latest News, Motivators, Thoughtful Thursday, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Thoughtful Thursday: Nikki Giovanni and Carla Hayden Love Libraries

Parents, Check Out These Great Back-to-School Resources!

GCP parents, it's time to get focused on helping our sons and daughters get ready for their best school year yet. Here are some helpful resources: Readiness Check: You know what grades your kids got last year, but how much of the material do they confidently understand? Does a C in math for the semester mean that your child [...]

By |2023-05-21T17:50:06-04:00August 14th, 2018|Academics, Ages 0-5, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 5-7, Ages 8-12, Experts, Featured, Latest News, Math, Motivators, Parents, Resources, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Parents, Check Out These Great Back-to-School Resources!

Thoughtful Thursday: Kevin Young

Today's Thoughtful Thursday (actually, "Thoughtful The Day after Thursday" this week) shines the spotlight on the amazing Kevin Young, aka "One of the Hardest Working men in Poetbiz". Young was born in 1970 in Lincoln, Nebraska. He received his BA from Harvard University in 1992 and his MFA in creative writing from Brown University in 1996. Young’s awards and [...]

By |2023-05-21T17:50:06-04:00August 10th, 2018|Cultural, Featured, Latest News, Thoughtful Thursday, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Thoughtful Thursday: Kevin Young

Insider Tips on the College Admissions Process

Yesterday GCP and Independent School Diversity Network (ISDN) hosted an "Insider’s View of the College Admissions Process" on Martha's Vineyard, featuring key admissions representatives from Columbia, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania discussing the admissions process. Once a year GCP and ISDN fill a living room with kids of color and give them the opportunity to meet with the [...]

By |2023-05-21T17:50:06-04:00August 9th, 2018|Academics, Admissions, Ages 16-18, College Bound Students, Featured, Latest News, Parents, Resources, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Insider Tips on the College Admissions Process
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