Creativity abounds in the classroom of Scott Stone, April’s Teacher of the Month. Scott teaches second grade at the Creative Arts Charter School in San Francisco. There have been many wonderful things said about Scott, and here are just a few:

“The energy coming from Scott’s class pulls you in to want to see what’s going on!”
– Ellen M. Hintz-Shimabukuro more »

826 is extremely proud to announce the two newest recipients of our college scholarships. Kevin Feeney is the winner of the Young Author's Scholarship and Jennifer Yu is the winner of the Nathan Jillson Memorial Scholarship. Kevin will attend Harvard University in the fall. Jennifer will be a student at the University of California at Berkeley. more »

The voices of students speaking about peace and violence are loud and clear, and they can be read in Waiting to Be Heard. This anthology by thirty-nine students of San Francisco's Thurgood Marshall Academic High School, with a foreword by Isabel Allende, and published by 826 Valencia, combines essays, fiction, poetry, and experimental writing to offer passionate, lucid staments about personal, local, and global issues—the way high-schoolers would have you hear them. more »