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Start: 7:00 pm
Common Ground Speaker Series presents Tony Wagner, Ph.D.
A Flat New World
Preparing Your Student for the 21st Century
Tuesday, September 28, 7:00 p.m.
Woodside High School Performing Arts Center
199 Churchill Avenue, Woodside
Our children will come of age in a world far more globally connected and competitive than at any time in history. Will they be ready?
Please join us for a special evening with Dr. Tony Wagner, one of the nation’s foremost education experts. He'll outline new skills that students must have to succeed in a “flat” world and share innovative strategies to help them navigate the academic, career and citizenship challenges that await them.
Dr. Wagner is co-director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is author of The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need – And What We Can Do About It.
All Common Ground Speaker Series events are free of charge to the parents, faculty and staff of member schools. Guests from non-member schools are welcome to attend for a $20 fee at the door. Light refreshments are offered 30 minutes prior to the event and books are available for purchase.
Start: 7:00 pm
Tuesday, September 28, 7:00 p.m.
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival BUY NOW
It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers sift through the gruesome remains of the victims, they discover that these attacks aren’t random: the tiger is apparently engaged in a vendetta. Injured, starving, and extremely dangerous, the tiger must be found before it strikes again.
This ancient, tenuous relationship between man and predator is at the very heart of this remarkable book. Throughout we encounter surprising theories of how humans and tigers may have evolved to coexist, how we may have developed as scavengers rather than hunters, and how early Homo sapiens may have fit seamlessly into the tiger’s ecosystem. Above all, we come to understand the endangered Siberian tiger, a highly intelligent super-predator that can grow to ten feet long, weigh more than six hundred pounds, and range daily over vast territories of forest and mountain.
Beautifully written and deeply informative, The Tiger circles around three main characters: Vladimir Markov, a poacher killed by the tiger; Yuri Trush, the lead tracker; and the tiger himself. It is an absolutely gripping tale of man and nature that leads inexorably to a final showdown in a clearing deep in the taiga.
John Vaillant is also the author of The Golden Spruce. He has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Outside, National Geographic, and Men’s Journal, among others. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Photo Credit: Michael Lionstar
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