Sigma Tau Delta is excited to offer two upcoming webinars with author Bradley Sides and teacher, author, and advocate Jessica Lander. Join us for these events hosted by NEHS to learn more about writing weird fiction and the intricacies of immigrant education in the US.
Bradley Sides, Author of Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood
Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. CT
Bradley Sides is the author of two short story collections, Those Fantastic Lives and Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood. His fiction appears at BULL, Ghost Parachute, Necessary Fiction, Psychopomp, Superstition Review, and elsewhere. His stories have been nominated for Year’s Best Weird Fiction and featured on LeVar Burton Reads. Additionally, he has written reviews, interviews, and essays for Chapter 16, Chicago Review of Books, Electric Literature, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, The Rumpus, and Southern Review of Books. In 2019, he was selected to participate in Lit Hub‘s “Secrets of the Book Critics.”
Presented by:
Chris Lockwood, NEHS Director
Michael Penna, NEHS Advisory Council
Jessica Lander, Author of Making Americans: Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas, and Inspiration in Immigrant Education and Winner of the 2024 George Orwell Book Award
Wednesday, June 4, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. CT
English Honor Societies is partnering with the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) to provide this experience to our communities.
Jessica Lander is a teacher, author, and advocate who teaches history and civics to recent immigrant students in a Massachusetts public high school. A 2021 Global Teacher Prize Top 50 Finalist and the 2023 Massachusetts History Teacher of the Year, she has taught in the US, Thailand, and Cambodia. She is the author of Making Americans (Beacon Press, 2022), a deep look at immigrant education, and co-author of Powerful Partnerships (Scholastic, 2017). Her work on education has appeared in The Boston Globe, Education Week, and The Washington Post. Jessica also consults on state and national education policy and co-founded the We Are America Project, supporting over 1,500 students in telling their stories of American identity.
Presented by:
Chris Lockwood, NEHS Director
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