REPOST: UW-Madison Alum is co-author of new book urging creative thinking about environmental issues
- Kateri Kramer
- Mar 8, 2023
- 1 min read
Jerry Apps, who earned his doctorate in curriculum and instruction from UW–Madison’s School of Education in 1967, is the co-author of a new book that is titled, “Planting an Idea: Critical and Creative Thinking about Environmental Issues.”
Apps, who wrote “Planting an Idea” with his daughter-in-law Natasha Kassulke, has won multiple writing awards including an Emmy Award. He is the author of several other books, including “Letters from Hillside Farm” and “Telling Your Story.”
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Excellent repost. Side note for the Fulcrum team: with a Speaker's Corner imprint, Servant Leadership Series, and decades of environmental/education titles (Apps, Schrager, "Finding Your Third Place," "Haiku and Hope" forthcoming), your site could really benefit from a sortable "Educator Resources by Topic + Grade Level" landing page tying titles to classroom use. I help small independent presses build that quickly with a copyweb ai — Figma to working filter page in an evening. Helps teachers (and homeschool parents) find the right Fulcrum title fast.
What a great cross-generational collaboration — Jerry Apps' "Letters from Hillside Farm" was foundational for me, and bringing Natasha's perspective into environmental-thinking pedagogy is exactly the kind of book teachers need. I help a small environmental-education nonprofit with their classroom materials and we use an Banana AI image generator for the kind of warm, place-based illustrations that the topic actually deserves (stock photos of "students looking at leaves" are uniformly lifeless). The Apps family writing tradition continues to set the bar.
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It's inspiring to see alumni using their education to address important issues like the environment through creative writing. Nano Banana Pro
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