The SAN Script The week of February 9 – 13
Rethinking Our Atlas of Possibility: An Alphabet Book of Imaginative, Uncommon, and Stereotype-Defying Occupations
from an amazing blog – Brain Pickings
As a lover of unusual alphabet books and of intelligent, imaginative children’s books that defy gender stereotypes, celebrate diversity, and counter bigotry, I was instantly taken with Work: An Occupational ABC (public library) by Toronto-based illustrator and designerKellen Hatanaka – a compendium of imaginative, uncommon, stereotype-defying answers to the essential what-do-you-want-to-be-when-
With a sensibility between mid-century children’s books and Blexbolex, Hatanaka weaves bold graphics and soft shades into a tapestry of tender vignettes about people of all shapes, sizes, and colors. There is the K-9 officer (female) training her trusty dog on an obstacle course; the Butcher (heavy-set) chasing after a mischievous raccoon that got away with the sausage; the Naval Architect (female) oversees the construction of a large ship near the shore as the Oceanographer (female, dark-skinned) explores the marine world below the surface.
What emerges is an atlas of vocational possibility that offers a heartening antidote to our culture’s stale menu of options for what constitutes a successful life; a toolkit that fortifies young readers against the malady anguishing so many modern grownups – the challenge ofletting our life speak and defining our own success.
Hatanaka’s depiction of women is especially emboldening – they aren’t pinkwashed stick-figures and don’t shy away from brawny or brainy pursuits.
Complement the immeasurably wonderful Work, which comes from Canadian independent children’s-book publisher Groundwood Books, with Maira Kalman’s design-history alphabet book, which was amongthe best children’s books of 2014, and Oliver Jeffers’s illustrated stories for the letters.
St. Anthony this week
Monday, February 9
our staff PD day – linked to our SIPsa – supply teachers are all booked -we just need to figure out who gets which supply teacher
Tuesday, February 10
chess club at lunch
staff meeting 3:15 – add to the agenda here
table tennis 3:15
Wednesday, February 10
Y Kids Academy – grade 5/6
School Council Meeting – 6:00PM
Thursday, February 11
Colleen McDonald visiting FDK
Paul in late – 9:00 am
Report cards and IEPs going home (still reading them)
Friday, February 12
Pizza Day!!