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StoryCorps Highlight: Thank You, Teachers!

May 6, 2023

Kate Wingate

Where would we be without our teachers? MNPS celebrates Teacher Appreciation Week the first week in May. Here's a story in celebration of teachers everywhere.

Podcast

"The Old Nurse's Story"

May 1, 2023

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, whom we know simply as Mrs. Gaskell, wrote the following short story, “The Old Nurse’s Story,” at the invitation of Mr. Charles Dickens – whom we know to be a thoroughgoing aficionado of the ghostly tale.

Limitless Libraries Expands Access to Latino Community with Website Translation

April 28, 2023

Ed Brown

Update benefits more than 26,000 Spanish Speakers in Metro Schools

Las Bibliotecas sin límites (Limitless Libraries) traducen su sitio web para facilitar el acceso a la comunidad latina

April 28, 2023

Ed Brown

Esta actualización beneficia a más de 26,000 hispanohablantes en las escuelas del área Metropolitana

Music is Life

April 27, 2023

Amanda Dembiec

In Music City USA there can never be too much!

Podcast

Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes

April 26, 2023

This is the story of three sisters – one with just one eye, one with two eyes, and one with three eyes. Do you think they all treat each other with kindness and generosity, as sisters ought? Listen and find out!