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The Teaching Press Goes Back to High School: An Interview with Appleton East High Teacher Ryan Marx 

Don’t worry, going back to high school isn’t as terrifying as it sounds. In 2024, The Teaching Press created a classroom set of our favorite “foldie-outtie” book, Lower Fox River PCB Clean-Up Timeline, for students at East Appleton High School. In this exclusive interview, we had the chance to speak with environmental science teacher Ryan Marx about his plans to use this book as a teaching tool.

Mr. Marx’s Students

What made you want to use the Lower Fox River PCB Clean-up Timeline book for your classes?

I have been interested in PCBs ever since learning about the biomagnification of PCBs from Professor Bart Destasio at Lawrence University. When I heard about the book at the Fox River Symposium, I was eager to get it and share it with my students.

A group of 6 students engaged with the PCB Fox River Clean Up book.

The classroom set in action

Student Authors Speak Out: An Interview with Ebony Hardnett

February 5, 2025 / wendam11 / 0 Comments

The Equality Now Project aims to amplify and uplift diverse voices. In the spirit of achieving this, we’ve conducted four student interviews with authors from this project.

In this interview, we were given the chance to speak with Ebony Hardnett, author of the piece “Utopia,” and she expressed her desire for change within her community.

Author Ebony Hardnett

How did you feel returning to school? What challenges have you faced in getting your GED/HSED?

At first, I struggled with it. I was going back to school at 36, a full-time single parent, so I struggled at first. But then I just figured I had to complete it because I have children that are looking up to me, and I have to be about it. And it’s not so much just saying you have to finish school; I have to show them that I could do it too.

Student Authors Speak Out: An Interview with Nicholas Henderson

February 5, 2025 / johna09 / 0 Comments

The Equality Now Project aims to amplify and uplift diverse voices. In the spirit of achieving this, we’ve conducted four student interviews with authors from this project.

In this interview, author and artist Nicholas Henderson, creator of the “Caged Bird” image located on the cover of this project, expressed how his love for art has impacted his life both inside and outside of the classroom.

Author and Artist Nicholas Henderson posing for a picture.

Artist and Author Nicholas Henderson

You talk about being an artist and a musician in your biography. What led you to those art forms?

I feel like it runs in my blood; it’s genetic. My family is full of artists who draw and make clothes. And I create music every day. My son creates music. For me, it helps me out mentally. It’s just something I enjoy doing.”

Equality Now Project, by HSED Students from Literacy Services of Wisconsin, On Sale Now!

December 16, 2024 / meachamr / 0 Comments

The Teaching Press is proud to promote community storytelling, advocacy, and literacy with our forthcoming release, Equality Now Project: Words of Advocacy, Injustice, and Celebration of Identities by HSED Students from Literacy Services of Wisconsin.

In the words of educator Kathrine Yets, the goal of this project is “to recognize these diverse voices. They are brilliant and they have the power to change the world.”

In this collection of essays, artwork, and poetry, Milwaukee-area writers, aged 19-60 years old, lift their voices to speak about racism, sexism, poverty, self-discovery, and the need for advocacy. Through the individuality of these authors, a diverse community emerges—one that is willing and capable of taking hold of their future and pushing toward equality for all.

On sale now at various retailers—or just click here.

Home Design: An Interview with Caleigh Cleary

August 8, 2024 / wendam11 / 0 Comments

Co-Designer Caleigh Cleary

Over the spring and summer semester of 2024, The Teaching Press has been hard at work on our latest project, Home Again and Again, written by Dr. Ann Gentry Recine and Louis Recine. This book is a self-help memoir highlighting the importance of finding and fostering the idea of “home” to lead a happy and fulfilled life.

With this project, The Teaching Press has employed two designers: longtime book designer Emily Heling, and newcomer Caleigh Cleary. What was the experience like for a first-time Teaching Press designer? Project Manager Allie Wendricks asked Caleigh all about it! Continue reading

“The Beauty and Resilience of Homes”: An Interview with Dr. Ann Gentry Recine

August 6, 2024 / Hartmann / 0 Comments

Our summer 2024 project is Home Again and Again: Recollections, Stories, Guideposts by Dr. Ann Gentry Recine and Louis Recine. In this engaging memoir, the authors take readers on a journey through Ann’s life of controlled chaos, faith, and positive perspectives. We had to know more about the duo behind it all , so we jumped at the chance for an exclusive interview.

Dr. Ann Gentry Recine and Louis Recine

Home Again and Again features a lot of your life in Wisconsin. Do you feel you have found a home here in the badger state?

I think my husband and I proved to ourselves that we were Badgers when we sold our house in Eau Claire and moved away from Wisconsin in the 1990s, to a Southern state—only to move back in nine months. Even though our family experienced amazing Southern hospitality, we deeply regretted selling our Eau Claire East Hill house! We were so viscerally homesick for our neighborhood, that we actually bought the house behind our old house. Yes, I can now see that beloved house with its birch trees and lamp post from the window of the room I am writing in. Sigh! We are at home in a Badger state, in a Badger town, and glad of it. Continue reading

Find Yourself Home Again and Again

August 5, 2024 / meachamr / 0 Comments

Local Authors Launch New Memoir on Saturday, August 10, at 2 Roots

EAU CLAIRE, WI – 08/05/2024 – In the words of Wisconsin author Dr. Ann Gentry Recine, “People all over the world are interested in stories of losing a home and finding it again, because that is the human story.”

Recine, along with her husband Lou, share this human story in their new book, Home Again and Again: Recollections, Stories, Guideposts, a funny yet moving collection of memories and reflections. A celebration of the book will take place on August 10, 2024 at 5:30 pm at 2 Roots Art & Wine Gallery located at 216 S Barstow St, Eau Claire, WI. This event is free and open to the public. Continue reading

New Book Alert! Home Again and Again: Recollections, Stories, Guideposts

August 4, 2024 / meachamr / 0 Comments

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Our Spring and Summer Teaching Press interns have been hard at work on our newest project, Home Again and Again: Recollections, Stories, Guideposts, by Dr. Ann Gentry Recine and Louis Recine.

In Home Again and Again: Recollections, Stories, Guideposts, Dr. Ann Recine invites readers into her chaotic life-well-lived to explore the concept of “home” and how it’s shaped her into the accomplished woman she is today. Continue reading

Launched! A Portrait of Grief and Courage: Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales

March 3, 2024 / meachamr / 0 Comments

One of the most moving events we could hope for was our December 2023 launch of Sandra Shackelford’s A Portrait of Grief and Courage: Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales, translated and transcribed by May Lee Lor and Ma Lee Lor, and with an introduction by Pao Lor. Feel free to peruse our photo gallery here, or watch the YouTube video,

This historic collection of oral histories, folktales, and photographs is on sale now at Lion’s Mouth Bookstore (Green Bay), WordHaven BookHouse (Sheboygan). You can order a copy directly from the Teaching Press here.

: Storyteller Mai Xong on the book cover

: Descendants of Mai Xiong at the book launch

: Author Sandra Shackelford with her collaborator and transcribers, May Lee Lor and Ma Lee Lor

: The daughter of storytellers Thao Chong and Yee Vang holds her parents’ stories in her hands

: Sandra Shackelford with Pa Lee, the woman who inspired the book 30 years ago

: Pa Lee and Sandra Shackelford

: “I was the baby in this photo!” —30 years later

: The book’s Project Manager, Designer, and Chief Copyeditor

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