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YALLFest is a public two-day annual young adult book festival in Charleston, South Carolina that is the largest of its kind in the South. Many amazing events are scheduled all day with some of YA’s best-loved authors! Talk to Ms. Peck early to get your tickets.
Don’t forget to send Mr. Kreutner your selfies with your favorite authors!
YALLFest is a public two-day annual young adult book festival in Charleston, South Carolina that is the largest of its kind in the South. Because of one of our teachers, Sara Peck, is a long-time organizer of this unique event, we get especially excited about this special event for fans of young adult literature.
Today, our students will enjoy a special guest speaker as part of YALLFest, author Maggie Tokuda Hall, author of The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, and its sequel, The Siren, the Song, and the Spy. For more on Maggie, you may visit her website.
To learn more about YALLFest and see the event schedule, visit the event website.
University School students conduct exit polls across the country in neighboring precincts to make statistical predictions based on their collected data. This enables students to see first hand the difference in turnout rates for the many types of elections, from Congressional to Mayoral, regional, and statewide, occurring in both even-numbered years or odd-numbered years, respectively. We employ this hands on civics project practice to produce educated and active stewards at the local and national levels.
In December, with Hampton Park as our home base, we learned more about the Park, explored The Citadel, discovered more about Denmark Vesey, enjoyed socializing, and had fun with PE and field activities.
On September 30, Dr. Jennie Stephens, CEO of the Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation, based in Charleston, spoke with our students. She also fielded questions from our students.
Our school has a solid civics and understanding government component: we watch the news every day to stay abreast of current events. We invited Dr. Stephens to speak following the Highway 41 issue and its possible impact on the historic Phillips African-American settlement community. The interest in learning more about the heirs’ property issue evolved naturally.
This presentation was part of our annual Fall exploration of government and elections and culminates in our exit polling project on Election Day. Students also heard from candidates from various political parties, political scientists, and others. Talking with them enables our students to form their own opinions based on research and first-hand experience – key concepts in developing students who will think critically for themselves.
The Center is a nonprofit protecting heirs’ property and promoting its sustainable use to provide increased economic benefit to historically underserved families. Ms. Stephans has been with Heirs since its inception in 2005. She has spent over 25 years in the nonprofit field.
To learn more about Ms. Stephens’s work and the Heirs’ Property Preservation, visit their website at https://www.heirsproperty.org/.
On September 23, Dr. Kendra Stewart, Professor and Director of the Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Center for Livable Communities at the College of Charleston spoke with our students about federalism and all of the types of government that exist in America. She was very engaging, beginning her presentation with a photo ID quiz of political leaders. A Q&A session capped the presentation, and topics included COVID response under federalism, carrot and stick approaches by the national government, and more. Our students are fortunate to have had the expertise of other members of the College of Charleston Department of Political Science over the years, including Gibbs Knotts in 2019!
This presentation was part of our annual Fall exploration of government and elections and culminates in our exit polling project on Election Day. Students also heard from candidates from various political parties, political scientists, and others. Talking with them enables our students to form their own opinions based on research and first-hand experience – key concepts in developing students who will think critically for themselves.
In addition to teaching at the College of Charleston and running the Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Center for Livable Communities, Dr. Stewart is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) and serves on the boards of several local professional and non-profit organizations.
To learn more about Dr. Stewart, visit her College of Charleston faculty page at: https://polisci.cofc.edu/about/faculty-staff-listing/stewart-kendra.php.
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