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SMSD News: Read across SMSD October 2024 - know your power

Oct 11, 2024 | johnsoncountypost.com | Mariana Llanos |Leah Henderson |Gary Schmidt |Sajni Patel

The Shawnee Mission School District is proud to present a new season of Read Across SMSD!Offered in partnership with NEA-Shawnee Mission and the Shawnee Mission Education Foundation, this program celebrates reading and our district Strategic Plan belief that our strength is derived from our diversity. Each month, the Shawnee Mission School District highlights book selections from the National Education Association, related to a monthly theme.
Serious Fraud Office welcomes two new non-executive directors

Oct 1, 2024 | sfo.gov.uk | Leah Henderson

1 October, 2024 | News ReleasesThe Serious Fraud Office is today announcing the appointment of two new board members, Caroline Firstbrook and Simon McKinnon CB CBE. They both take up their posts today (Oct 1) and are initially appointed to serve a three-year term. Caroline Firstbrook Caroline brings a wealth of experience in professional services and entrepreneurship, having served as Chief Operating Officer at the law firm Clifford Chance LLP for over seven years until 2022.
YOUR VOICE, YOUR VOTE

Dec 19, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Leah Henderson |Jory John |Pete Oswald

A much-needed reminder that voting is a right not to be taken for granted. Young Quetta and her mother and grandmother take a long ride on two different buses (standing room only). Once they arrive at their polling place, they see a long line of community members, and they settle in to wait…and wait…and wait. It’s a big day—Grandma has even donned her Sunday hat, though it’s Tuesday. If it’s such an important day, though, why does Quetta’s mother still have to go to work? the girl wonders.
Courage of the Little Hummingbird A Tale Told Around the World

Apr 11, 2023 | abramsbooks.com | Leah Henderson

A freshly retold animal fable about heroism, hope, and community, from award-winning creators Leah Henderson and Magaly MoralesAcross oceans, lands, and skiesIn whispers, shouts, and in many different languagesthe story of the little hummingbird of the Great Forest can always be heardThe story of the little hummingbird has been told around the world in many forms and across many cultures, believed to have originated among the Indigenous Quecha people of modern-day Ecuador.