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            10 Articles Categorized Under First-Year Reading: Inspiration

            First-Year Reading: Inspiration First-Year Reading: Memoir & Biography
            January 21 2022

            Salt in My Soul: Watch the Documentary Based on the Book, Available to Stream January 25

            Salt in My Soul is Mallory Smith’s posthumously published memoir, the collected diaries of a remarkable young woman who was determined to live a meaningful and happy life despite her struggle with cystic fibrosis and a rare superbug—from age 15 to her death at the age of 25. Mallory’s story of resilience has resonated in classrooms across

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            Salt in My Soul: Watch the Documentary Based on the Book, Available to Stream January 25

            First-Year Reading: Inspiration First-Year Reading: Memoir & Biography
            January 21 2022
            First-Year Reading: Inspiration
            November 9 2021

            Homework Assignment: Love Yourself So You Can Love the World

            Contributed by the Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, a public theologian, senior minister at Middle Church, and the author of Fierce Love: A Bold Path to Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking Kindness That Can Heal the World I’m so excited for the journey your students are on! They’ve embarked on a path not only to an education

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            Homework Assignment: Love Yourself So You Can Love the World

            First-Year Reading: Inspiration
            November 9 2021
            First-Year Reading First-Year Reading: Inspiration First-Year Reading: Memoir & Biography General
            January 22 2021

            Dr. Kathryn Sullivan Shatters New Records

            Astronaut Dr. Kathryn Sullivan—author of Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention from the MIT Press—has recently added three new accolades to the long list of accomplishments she has earned over the course of her career as scientist and explorer. With her visit this past June to the Challenger Deep at the base of the Mariana Trench, Dr.

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            Dr. Kathryn Sullivan Shatters New Records

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            January 22 2021
            First-Year Reading First-Year Reading: Inspiration First-Year Reading: Science & Technology
            December 14 2020

            Watch Jamil Zaki, Author of THE WAR FOR KINDNESS, Speak About the Power of Empathy

            Jamil Zaki, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and author of The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World, joined Penguin Random House Education and the National Orientation Directors Association (NODA) at their annual conference, held virtually this October, to speak about the psychology behind empathy. Based on 15 years of research, he

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            Watch Jamil Zaki, Author of THE WAR FOR KINDNESS, Speak About the Power of Empathy

            First-Year Reading First-Year Reading: Inspiration First-Year Reading: Science & Technology
            December 14 2020
            First-Year Reading: Inspiration First-Year Reading: Memoir & Biography
            August 22 2019

            Eleven “Notes” of Wisdom from author Kwame Onwuachi

            By the time he was twenty-seven, Kwame Onwuachi had competed on Top Chef, cooked at the White House, and opened and closed one of the most talked about restaurants in America. Despite his young age, his success wasn’t won overnight: working in Manhattan, he was forced to grapple with just how unwelcoming the world of

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            Eleven “Notes” of Wisdom from author Kwame Onwuachi

            First-Year Reading: Inspiration First-Year Reading: Memoir & Biography
            August 22 2019
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            First-Year Reading: Inspiration First-Year Reading: Memoir & Biography
            May 8 2019

            FROM THE PAGE: Call Me American

            Introduced to American movies and pop music while growing up in Somalia, Abdi Nor Iftin fell in love with the idea of America long before he could find the country on a map. As the Somali Civil War broke out, Abdi grew desensitized to the violence around him: avoiding gunfire during his daily trip to

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            FROM THE PAGE: Call Me American

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            May 8 2019
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            March 12 2019

            SALT IN MY SOUL: AN UNFINISHED LIFE by Mallory Smith

            “I have a strong urge to write something that will change people. I want to create a piece so moving that people are in disbelief. And I want it to be like handing people a pair of glasses, giving them a way of seeing something they didn’t even realize they weren’t seeing.” —Mallory Smith   Salt

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            SALT IN MY SOUL: AN UNFINISHED LIFE by Mallory Smith

            First-Year Reading: Inspiration First-Year Reading: Memoir & Biography
            March 12 2019
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            First-Year Reading First-Year Reading: Inspiration
            August 25 2017

            Dave Isay on CALLINGS and Finding What You are Meant to Do (VIDEO)

            In Callings, StoryCorps founder Dave Isay presents unforgettable stories from people doing what they love. Some found their paths at a very young age, others later in life; some overcame great odds or upturned their lives in order to pursue what matters to them.

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            Dave Isay on CALLINGS and Finding What You are Meant to Do (VIDEO)

            First-Year Reading First-Year Reading: Inspiration
            August 25 2017
            One Book One Frankfort
            Community & School Reads Kids First-Year Reading: Inspiration
            April 6 2017

            THE INVISIBLE BOY Promotes Kindness in Kentucky’s One Book One Frankfort for Children Project

            The Invisible Boy Promotes Kindness in Kentucky’s One Book One Frankfort for Children Project by Trudy Ludwig, author of The Invisible Boy (Knopf Books for Young Readers, October 2013) It’s one thing for an author to write a story that she has a strong need to share. It’s quite another for her to experience in person

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            THE INVISIBLE BOY Promotes Kindness in Kentucky’s One Book One Frankfort for Children Project

            Community & School Reads Kids First-Year Reading: Inspiration
            April 6 2017
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            September 9 2016

            What Gives You Meaning?

            By Emily Esfahani Smith, author of The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters (Crown, January 2017) When I was a senior in high school, I thought I knew what I wanted to do with my life: I was going to be a doctor. I loved science, and easing the suffering of others, I

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            What Gives You Meaning?

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            September 9 2016
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