What I Love…
Mar 3rd, 2010 |
… a picture of my son reading to his son. Pure joy.
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Just READ!
Feb 27th, 2010 |
I ran across the perfect video for Tuesday, March 2nd’s Read Across America celebration. Check it out!
Read full post...Reading, Writing, and Play ALL Day
Feb 3rd, 2010 |
And I’m okay with a decent amount of math, too. But the bottom line is that the pendulum has swung TOO far and this op-ed article in Monday’s NYT sums up quite nicely the direction in which I *wish* education was headed.
What I wouldn’t give to teach in the (theoretical) third grade classroom [...]
I've lived and traveled around the world, but now make my home in California.
By day, I teach; evenings and many weekends, I write.
My teaching, reading, and writing eventually led to a degree in Language and Literacy, and later, an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts.