The Living School, Tal’s second book about teaching and learning in the North Branch School, will be published in Spring of 2020 by Green Writers Press.

Green Writers Press is a Vermont-based, global publisher founded by writer and environmental activist, Dede Cummings. It is the mission of Green Writers Press to spread a message of hope and renewal through the words and images we publish.

The Living School sketches an utterly unique entity: an independent and virtual one-room middle school in the Green Mountains of Vermont. The Living School takes a deep look into an intimate, wild, and unpredictable year of learning, in and out of the classroom, with a diverse collection of funny, profound, troubled, and hopeful adolescents.