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Read my paper for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (AAACS), April 3, 2019, in Toronto, Ontario:  life_and_death_at_talawanda_ridge.pdf  Since the meeting, the piece was published in Volume 3.1 of Currere Exchange Journal.  View the piece at www.currereexchange.com

Thanks to EHS writer James Loy who produced the following piece about the autobiographical work Denise Baszile and I, along with students, are doing on the Currere Exchange Retreat/Conference and Currere Exchange Journal: www.currereexchange.weebly.com.  You can listen to James audio production of the piece by clicking here or view the story here.

Van-Griner publishers also released Losing to Boehner, Winning America, my campaign memoir about the 2014 congressional race.  The book has gotten a great reaction on Facebook and twitter and several strong reviews at Amazon.  Many thanks to everyone who takes a look, buys a copy, and reads!  You can order the book at my Books page link above.

Information Age Publishing recently released the fourth book in a series of eight volumes in our Curriculum Windows Project in 2018.  Book four in the series is on Curriculum books and theorists of the 1990s.  Check it out on my book page!  In 2019 we will release the 1950s book, and in 2020 we will release the 2000s book the final two volumes based on books that should have been read during projects on the preceding decades! Those volumes will be called Redux 1 and Redux 2.  Please look for the Curriculum Windows books and other releases on my Books page.

Also take a look at several other items here, especially William Phillis support for our recent (2015) book Was Someone Mean To You Today?  The Impact of Standardization, Corporatization, and High Stakes Testing on Students, Teachers, Schools, Communities, and Democracy.  Click here to view Bill's blog post.  Order Was Someone Mean To You Today? by visiting my Books page.

Colleague and friend Morna McDermott from Towson University published an extensive review of the book.  Thank you to Morna for her amazing contributions to resistance efforts on a national level.  Click here to view her review.

I have several new books just released or just set to come out.  50 Christmases is a memoir published by Sourced Media Books in October of 2014.  You can purchase the book through my website for the book www.50Christmases.com  Thanks to all the readers that have supported this work!


Thank you so much for supporting my projects!

Best Regards, Tom Poetter
poettets@miamioh.edu