The article I reference from Forbes Magazine: Low Literacy Levels Among U.S. Adults Could Be Costing The Economy $2.2 Trillion A Year

https://www.barbarabush.org/
LiteracyPromoting the power of literacy for all

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MAY is Mental Health Awareness Month! You are #MoreThanEnough

https://www.nami.org/Get-Involved/Awareness-Events/Mental-Health-Awareness-Month

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/05/03/fact-sheet-celebrating-mental-health-awareness-month-2023.html

Digital Toolkit for Mental Health Awareness Month

https://www.samhsa.gov/

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In this episode, we discuss the literacies of acupuncture, what it means to be an active learner, and so much more! I truly enjoyed this episode, and hope you do, too!

For more information about DR. SEAN E. CHILLEMI, DACM, MSTOM, LA.C, LMT, HHC , you can visit his website at http://www.renshenhealing.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renshenhealing/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Ren-Shen-Healing/100057478599052/

The book Dr. Chillemi mentions: The Web That Has No Weaver, by Ted Kaptchuk is available on Amazon and at other fine booksellers.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-web-that-has-no-weaver-ted-j-kaptchuk/1114861645

My new podcast page! https://www.podpage.com/literacy-landscapes-1/ leave a voicemail, subscribe for updates, or send me a message!

Jeff Pearlman is an accomplished writer and podcaster. In this episode, we discuss sports writing, writing in general, and his upcoming projects.

His podcast is Two Writers Slinging Yang. A New York Times Best Selling author, you can find more information about him here:

https://jeffpearlman.com/

Jeff Pearlman recently published The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson, available on Amazon, at Barnes and Noble, and other fine bookstores.

His book Showtime is the basis for the HBO Max series, Winning Time. 

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Manny Alayon is a fitness entrepreneur, coach, fellow podcaster, and the owner of NorthEast CrossFit in Westchester, NY. You can follow him on Instagram @northeastcrossfit

In this episode, we discuss the language of fitness, and CrossFit® terminology, among other things!

Here is the article I mention Schlegel P. CrossFit® Training Strategies from the Perspective of Concurrent Training: A Systematic Review. J Sports Sci Med. 2020 Nov 19;19(4):670-680. PMID: 33239940; PMCID: PMC7675627.

FB https://www.facebook.com/northeastcrossfit

on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnOTtYZkAS8-6xemiIYxb0A

His podcast, the Coaching Couch is available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts

In this conversation, we discuss congregational Hebrew use and approaches to language in Jewish education. This conversation addresses the role of religious languages in schooling- across religions, as we look to where we are now, and in the future. We explore how we use language to make claims about our identities and the “story of language.” Who controls language? What is the role of language in defining who we are and our beliefs?

You can learn more about Dr. Sharon Avni’s work at http://www.sharonavni.com/

Thais Miller is a writer, educator, editor, and doctoral candidate. In this episode, we discuss the creative writing process, the challenges of revision and feedback, and the teaching of writing. For more information about Thais, you can visit her website at https://thaismiller.wordpress.com/

Janny Perez is a Colombian-American multilingual parenting mom, founder of Mi Legasi, podcast host of The Latina Mom Legacy, and bilingual parenting educator. Jenny recently published “Nobody Told Me This About Raising a Bilingual Child,” which can be found at the following link.

Janny Perez Website: milegasi.com

Instagram & FB @milegasi

Link to Janny's podcast: The Latina Mom Legacy

Link to the Ted Talk Johanna mentioned: The Linguistic Genius of Babies (Patricia Kuhl)

In this episode, Johanna interviews Dr. Adam Tramantano about his new book, Consider the Volley: How We Make Sense of Things. You can access his book on Amazon at this link. You can also learn more about Adam, and his artwork, at his website https://tramantano.com/

You can also access the article Adam references, Constructing a Pedagogy of Apparentness, at the following link.

In this brief episode, I discuss my "Why" as Simon Sinek would say, for why literacy matters to me. I'm excited about future episodes I'm planning, including: The connection between mathematics and literature, the importance of print rich environments in early literacy practices, interviewing Dr. Adam Tramantano about his newly released book, and planning a series on bilingual education. Stay tuned and please subscribe!

This episode is near and dear to my heart. I had the pleasure and honor of speaking about the Yiddish language, history, literature, and culture with two accomplished experts in the field. There are some powerful insights in this episode about how language shapes us. We explore the specific aspects of the Yiddish language, including the complexity of language through concise and highly nuanced language, songs, and poetry that impact us, and how the Yiddish language has been shaped by history, and where it is today.

Dr. Debra Caplan is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Baruch College, City University of New York, where she teaches theater history and Jewish theater. Her first book, Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy (2018) won awards from the Theatre Library Association and the Modern Language Association. She is currently working on an edited collection about The Dybbuk, forthcoming in October, and a biography of Yiddish actress Molly Picon.

Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy (2018). Available at:

https://www.amazon.com/Yiddish-Empire-Troupe-Theater-Itinerancy/dp/0472037250

https://shop.yiddishbookcenter.org/products/yiddish-empire-the-vilna-troupe-jewish-theater-and-the-art-of-itinerancy-by-debra-caplan

Caplan, D. (2016). Reassessing obscurity: The case for Big Data in theatre history. Theatre Journal, 555-573. DOI:10.1353/TJ.2016.0106

Jon Levitow currently teaches Yiddish at Stanford and at UC Santa Cruz. He received a Ph.D. in English literature from Princeton and a BA from Stanford. He began studying Yiddish at the Los Angeles Workers’ Circle and at the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language's intensive language program, where he also served as an instructor, and is a graduate of the summer Yiddish program in association with the Free University of Brussels, the Uriel Weinreich Yiddish Program at NYU and the Naomi Prawer Kadar program at Tel-Aviv University. He has published English translations of works by Yiddish poets Yisroel Shtern, Aaron Zeitlin, and Yosl Birstein on the website, yiddishpoetry.org.

Here is some information if you are interested in learning more!

https://yo-yiddishort.org/

The Workers’ Circle: https://www.circle.org/yiddish

YAAANA – The Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North  America. https://yiddishlandcalifornia.org/

Yiddish Pop: http://www.yiddishpop.com/

DuoLingo – an online language learning program: https://www.duolingo.com

The California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language  (CIYCL) www.yiddishinstitute.org

The National Yiddish Book Center https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/

Dr. Levitow's site: https://www.bayyiddish.net/