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Scholastic Teams Up with 5 Female Leaders to Debut New "Rising Voices" K-5 Classroom Library Collection to Empower Girls in STEAM
The Second Collection in the Rising Voices Library® Series Features Powerful Messages from Industry Mentors to Shatter Misconceptions About Girls as Future
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[{"type":"text","content":"The Second Collection in the Rising Voices Library® Series Features Powerful Messages from Industry Mentors to Shatter Misconceptions About Girls as Future Leaders in Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Math\n\n\nNEW YORK, June 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Scholastic has announced the launch of Rising Voices: Books Empowering Girls in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Math). This new classroom library collection provides K–5 students and educators with culturally relevant and representative books paired with teaching materials, designed to enrich identity development, build literacy skills, and support CASEL-aligned social-emotional learning. Despite representing nearly half of the U.S. workforce, women made up only 27% of those employed in science, technology, engineering, and math in 20191. Among the women who have made it into this workforce, few are women of color. Rising Voices: Books Empowering Girls in STEAM showcases girls and women as protagonists succeeding in a variety of STEAM fields, and celebrates inspiring stories of curiosity, creative problem-solving, leadership, collaboration, persistence, and vision. With the inclusion of select titles focused on the arts, this collection recognizes artistic pursuits for the value they bring to society and for their significance in enhancing STEM efforts.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nLearn more about the Scholastic Rising Voices Library series: www.scholastic.com/risingvoicessteam. \nTo help amplify this important mission in classrooms nationwide, Scholastic has teamed up with five mentors who are powerhouses in their respective STEAM fields: \nTatyana Ali, actress, singer, producer, writer, and humanitarian, has won five NAACP Image Awards. She frequently speaks at schools across the country, is actively involved in Black Girls Rock!, and serves as a celebrity council advocate for the March of Dimes. \"Our duty is to meet children where their dreams begin. Instead of asking them to 'fall back' into categories that make us feel comfortable, let's share with them what it looks like to 'rise up' into the fullness of their being.\"Estephanie Mosquera-Ortiz is an elementary school teacher and founder of Beaut&Beast Co., a lifestyle and education company dedicated to teaching women and children self-sufficiency and awareness. \"It is important to provide a...