Five Great Reads to Expand my Teaching Community
Last spring I posted a list of recommended reads I used to transition back into my teaching frame of mind in the United States after...
I Wish You Words. . . Happy International Literacy Day
Cloth twisted in my hand. It yielded unlike book covers, even my most treasured and folded texts. Anne of Green Gables, my most...
How I spent my summer vacation: Storytimes Around the World
What is multicultural storytime? As a society, as a nation, as a world, we know history because humans are storytellers. A program like...
Happy Birthday! The Start of a New Year
“What do you want for your birthday?” A job? I had lamented the elusiveness of employment enough the past year. René believed that the...
The McGregor versus Martha Stewart Garden and Why It's Okay to Let me Fail
Almost summer, the air is humid, close. The post in the field looks like a faraway dock. There is a too much kind of skunk smell and...
Family Engagement Produces a Garden Variety of Opportunity: Learning to Learn to Garden, Part III
“It helps to have a lot to do. Then you don’t have to do anything too specific at first. You can just practice. Then as you go along...
What do good Farmer's Do?: Learning to Learn to Garden, Part II
I remember learning in middle school science that wind is caused by the air particles seeking equilibrium. They lilt, dance and...
Potatoes and Peas: Learning to Learn to Garden, Part I
I don’t like the word expert, and I don’t like the word smart. I know that I could renew my teaching license but I also know that I...
What do good "readers" do? PART II: Because some things look better in poetry
In my family, I talk. Daddy hugs. I dance. Mommy kisses. I cry. They sing. I smile. They sleep. We dream. In my family. When I talk...
