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...
What do good "readers" do? In my family. . .
From my childhood perspective, the story of how my mother taught me to read is romantic, but not very helpful to me as a teacher coach. ...
Independence Renamed as Responsibility: according to Solo, Sea Captain
Today is my birthday My Friend says. No matter, I would consider it a great day. Everyone stayed home. I may lament freedom and...
Fight or Flight
Tired of. . . Teaching? Looking for the meaning of life? Or just figuring out who I am for what job? Thirty six years of life...
Read, Write, Talk, PLAY, SING. . .THE BLUES: unsung early literacy practices on my father's gui
“Your mother taught you,” is the official story, but the fact in my father’s fiction is clearly blending harmony unheard. Alto, tenor...
Bell's MACRO-EDIT: A more direct route to your next relationship than online dating
“Dear Erin,” the sentence began. A tiny bit more peeked from the text line in my inbox. “Congratulations!” I could see it but not...
The Expertise Gap: A Bedtime Story for Adult Learners
DEAR DIARY, Instead of counting sheep, I count the ways I’ve been a teacher and then the ways I could support teachers’ becoming. When...
Prewriting: The moment that changes everything
I can create my own prompt from all the old essays in front of me, spread across the floor as elements in the universe must eventually...
