RAPSA Feature Blog: 

Ask the Author with David Bouchard

Best-selling author and presenter David Bouchard has touched the lives of thousands of children, teachers, and parents with his stories.  Mr. Bouchard, whose passions include reading and writing, art and music and dance, aboriginal people and culture, has published more than 35 titles...including: I am Raven, An Aboriginal Carol, If You Are Not From the Prairie, C'est du Hockey, Notes to My Daughter, and The Gift of Reading.

Car Care

By Coleen Armstrong

By mid-September I still hadn’t had time to do anything about my bare bulletin boards. Too much early fall paperwork. But the empty wall was beginning to get on everyone’s nerves.
 
So my senior auto mechanics class asked one day if they could tack up pictures of their cars. I shrugged. It sounded a little bizarre, but I figured it was better than nothing.
 
Within a week the board was covered with snapshots of vehicles. Trucks, jeeps, cars and mini vans, all different. The only thing they had in common was that each was in remarkably good shape. No clunkers.
 
Still, I stared at the display each day after school and shook my head. Why would anyone want to take a picture of a used car? Why would anyone want to show it off?

Noted Educator Ron Clark to Speak at the 5th Annual RAPS Conference

Ron Clark has been called "America's Educator." In 2000, he was named Disney's American Teacher of the Year. He is a New York Times bestselling author whose book, The Essential 55, has sold over 1 million copies and has been published in 25 different countries. He has been featured on The Today Show, CNN, and Oprah, and Ms. Winfrey even named him as her first "Phenomenal Man." His classes have been honored at the White House on three separate occasions. Ron's teaching experiences in New York City are the subject of the uplifting film, The Ron Clark Story, starring Matthew Perry, better known as Chandler from Friends.