Sunday Morning Magazine with Rodney Lear

Mandy Manning, National Teacher of the Year, 2018. During this special edition of Sunday Morning Magazine, we celebrated outstanding educator who are finding ways to reach their students through innovative means. Ms. Manning, teaches Math and English to refuge, and immigrant high school student in Spokane, Washington. She is often the first teacher her students have when they come to this country. For her devotion, she was named 2018’s National Teacher of the Year. Ms. Manning shared on-air that in her classroom, she uses experiential projects like map-making to help her students process trauma, celebrate their home countries and culture, and learn about their new community.

In today’s increasingly complicated world, it’s often difficult for parents to connect with their daughters—especially for fathers. With Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, Dr. Meeker reveals that a young woman’s relationship with her father is far more important than we’ve ever realized and shows that daughters need their father’s attention, protection, courage, and wisdom in order to become strong, confident women.

Dr. Ian Smith, Celebrity Fitness Trainer, TV Personality and Author, The Ancient Nine. Dr. Smith joined Sunday Morning Magazine to talk about his latest projects—a novel, titled The Ancient Nine. While on-air, Smith explained the novel explores the exclusive, real-life secret clubs at Harvard University. Smith says The Ancient Nine marks the first time anyone has written a book that goes behind the doors of these all-male centuries-old clubs and shares some of their long-guarded secrets and cloaked trans-generational privileges. Today, Dr. Smith explained, that these clubs are under fire and the source of controversy.

Michael and Tracey Landry, Founders, T.M. Landry College Prep School, Louisiana. Sunday Morning Magazine proudly presented a show devoted to educators who are using non-traditional methods to teacher young people. The student videos from our guests Michael and Tracey Landry have gone virial—with over 6 million views. The videos show students receiving college acceptance letters into Ivey League schools like Harvard and Yale. The celebration serves as a job well done for Michael and Tracey, the Founders of T.M. Landry College Prep School in Louisiana. This small yet dynamic school has a 100% graduation rate and a 100% college acceptance rate. The Landry’s joined the show to talk about the success of the school. Michael explained that the school is open all year, has no set daily class schedule, has no text books and homework is never assigned.

Our guest, Akbar Cooks says when he found out that 85% of this students were missing 3 to 5 days of school per month because they didn’t have clean clothes—and that they were being bullied in school and through social media because of it—he vowed to make a difference. Mr. Cook says he wrote a grant and raised funds to install a laundromat in the school. Mr. Cook spoke on-air about some of the issues his students face outside the school that become barriers to their success in the classroom. Principal Cook admits that his story went viral and captured the attention of Ellen DeGeneres. He spoke about his recent appearance on Ellen’s talk show.

Michael Cabral, Teacher, Cincinnati Public Schools, Dater High School. For this edition of the show, we focused on innovative educators who are teaching student using non-traditional methods. Mr. Michael Cabral is a teacher in the Cincinnati Public School system. Through his guidance, Mr. Cabral’s students are producing state-of-the art projects and preparing for the future in the ever-changing world of technology. Mr. Cabral is a Google Certified Educator (Level 2). Cabral continues to learn more about the various educational tech possibilities available including Google Drive, Learning Management Systems like Schoology, WeVideo, Gradecam, DBQ Online, Green Screen Technology, Minecraft EDU, Screencasting. Over the past two years, his students have won the "MyTomorrow" Award at the Cincinnati Public School LINK project competition for ninth grade for the videos they produced in his classroom.

Sesame Workshop launched a major autism initiative to help de-stigmatize autism, which affects one in 68 American children. Sesame Street and Autism: See Amazing in All Children will provide resources to families, teachers and caregivers around the country to educate them about autism, and tools to help families touched by autism with everyday activities. The digital content includes a new Sesame friend, Julia, a preschool girl with autism who does things a little differently when playing with her friends, the loveable Elmo, Abby Cadabby and Grover. See Amazing, available at www.SesameStreet.org/Autism, includes guides to simplify activities and overcome common challenges such as washing hands, brushing teeth, going to the supermarket, and bedtime routines. This initiative is the culmination of more than two years of production and testing, leveraging the powerful educational and research-based approach that Sesame applies

The Sickle Cell Alliance Foundation is holding its 3rd Annual 5K walk on September 9, 2018. For more information [email protected]

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Sharon Robinson is the daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson. Sharon is an educational consultant for Major League Baseball. In her role with MLB, Sharon oversees Breaking Barriers: In Sports, In Life. Breaking Barriers is a national character education program designed to empower students with strategies to help them face obstacles in their lives. While on the air, Ms. Robinson spoke about her latest young adult novel, Slam Dunk. She says that readers will identify with the book’s main character, Jumper, who struggles to balance sports and academics, and new and old friendships, all in his first year of middle-school. She also gave clear examples of how parents can engage youngsters in reading.

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KJ Dell’Antonia, Author, How To Be A Happier Parent: Raising a Family, Having a Life, and Loving (Almost) Every Minute. As a mom of four and a beloved parenting writer at the New York Times, KJ Dell’Antonia found herself asking the question that plagues most modern parents at some point in our lives: Why does this have to suck so much? In her hopeful, solution-packed book, HOW TO BE A HAPPIER PARENT, KJ draws on interviews and research, including her own, to offer not just an answer to that question (it’s not all our fault), but ideas parents can use to shift their family lives away from the stress and towards the joy we hoped we’d find. Unlike so many anxiety-inducing parenting books on the market, HOW TO BE A HAPPIER PARENT does not demand that parents add more to their already busy lives. Instead, it focuses on improving problem spots and savoring the lovely modern lives we already live.

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