Eutopia,(which means the perfect place as oppose to Utopia which means a perfection beyond attainment) is a fantasy fiction story of two boys who stumble across another world named Eutopia. As they arrive in this land, they come to realize that it has been destroyed by vice and greed. The boys must practice their virtues in order to awaken the guardians of Eutopia and restore this once perfect place. Through reading this series, children will feel empowered and see that they can make a positive difference in the world through practicing virtues.

Integrated studies involves bringing together typically disconnected subjects so that students can arrive at more meaningful and authentic understanding. For more than a decade, researchers at Project Zero, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, have been studying interdisciplinary work across a wide range of settings -- from research centers tackling some of society’s thorniest challenges to school classrooms preparing students for a complex future. They have found interdisciplinary understanding to be a hallmark of contemporary knowledge production and also a primary challenge for today’s educators.

Helping students acquire interdisciplinary understanding doesn’t mean mixing in a smidgen of art or music to liven up a math or science lesson. Veronica Boix Mansilla -- who, with Howard Gardner, cofounded the Interdisciplinary Studies Project at Project Zero -- emphasizes the purpose behind integrated studies. Students build and demonstrate interdisciplinary understanding, she explains in a recent publication, "when they can bring together concepts, methods, or languages from two or more disciplines or established areas of expertise in order to explain a phenomenon, solve a problem, create a product, or raise a new question in ways that would have been unlikely through single disciplinary means."