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  • The first time I was recognized as an author (my book, A Girl Like You, will be published next Spring) was just last week in my third grader's classroom.  I had stopped by the class to...
  • ...and with students that the initial tone I or we set is all important.  With colleagues, I never share work unless there is mutual trust.  In the classroom, I tell my students that comm...
  • My Book: Why Zarmina Sings: Tools from the Classroom to Overcome Anxiety and Transform Your Life What's it ab...ed to be more creative in my job. Once I began to get creative in the classroom, the inspiration came from my...
  • ...Reminds me of a scene from the Simpsons where Oscar Meyer has given money to Bart's school in exchange for product promotion, and they walk by a classroom studying the periodic chart,...
  • Pamela, Which cover? A. "My Splendid Concubine" B. "Running with the Enemy" C. "Crazy is Normal, a classroom expose"
  • ...ots of room for metafiction -- you can tell that to the parents. I think Scholastic gives a simple and good overview of ways to approach in the classroom -- here's the link -- and tha...
  • Thank you for saying what I've been teaching in the classroom as a substitute teacher. This is something I always catch; it kind of glares at me like a neon sign.
  • ...ook the MA in Engish in the 1970s, when I was in my 20s. By the early 2000s I was pushing 60, retired from a long career in the secondary school classroom, and identifying myself as a...
  • ...in the year 2000. Yes, by current MFA models that makes me a literary dinosaur. We didn't have internet, and all classes happened in a real time classroom. Can U imagine that? I can co...
  • ...about my writing.  Oh, who are we kidding?  I talk because I like to talk.  Talking is how you learn about people.  I have always done well in a classroom or a small group of people.  ...