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What no one tells you after winning a Newberry Medal is how difficult it is to write your next book.
In 2016, San Diego author Matt de la Peña won the prestigious children’s literature award for “Last Stop on Market Street,” a picture book that deals with inequity. The Newberry is rarely awarded to picture books, and de le Peña was also the first Hispanic author to ever receive it. Additionally, the book’s illustrator, Christian Robinson, was awarded the Caldecott Medal.
That’s a lot of success for an author who spent his early years in National City never realizing that writing books was even a career option. So when it was time to start his follow-up book, 2018’s “Love,” de la Peña wrote one line and thought, “is this a Newbery Award-winning line?”
TUSDs second African American board member looks to her Sugar Hill roots
Sadie Shaw is a local artist who was inspired to run for TUSD school board by her upbringing
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) â Sadie Shaw was a student of art who became a politician. It was an interesting segue and actually the arts brought me to this position, I feel.
Among her proudest works, a mural in the neighborhood where she was raised: Sugar Hill, now called Northwest. That mural was in dedication to my cousin, Antonio Whigham, who I had lost a few months before then, my father, my aunt Alice, my grandpa.
TUSD holding âsocks and undiesâ drive through February TUSD Undergarment drive (Source: Educational Enrichment Foundation) By KOLD News 13 Staff | February 5, 2021 at 4:49 PM MST - Updated February 5 at 4:49 PM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - The Tucson Unified School District and the Educational Enrichment Foundation are holding a âsocks and undiesâ drive all through February for students in need.
TUSD has a critical need for undergarments for students. Socks and underwear are needed in all sizes for kids K-12, ranging from age 5 to age 18.
New socks, underwear and bras can be dropped off from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the following resource centers:
Beloved Tucson high school coach dies of COVID-19
Ismael Arce was a soccer coach and teacher at Tucson High School for more than 20 years. He died of COVID-19 last Thursday. Author: Niala Charles Updated: 9:04 AM MST February 5, 2021
TUCSON, Ariz. The Tucson community is in mourning after four school district employees died of COVID-19 between Jan. 25 and Jan. 29.
One of them was a beloved soccer coach named Ismael Arce.
Arce worked at Tucson High School for more than 20 years as a social studies teacher and soccer coach. He even led the team to a state championship in 2014.
Blessed to have been able to play for this man in high school and win a state title with him my senior year. You’ll forever be missed coach Arce. RIP ⚽️ https://t.co/DNwai3poQQ Christian Wolfe (@ChristianWolfee) January 29, 2021