Evelyn is a high school graduate. I closed the book on her transcript over a year ago. Recently she taught me how to connect the dots: Ever since my mom introduced me to pysanky egg making many years ago, I…

When my youngest son, Søren, and his literature circle buddies began reading Perloo the Bold, by AVI his imagination was captured. Perloo, the protagonist, is a peaceful, fairly introverted scholar much like my son. I think they hit it off…

We teach our children that letters have sounds, that sounds combine to form words, that words combine to form sentences, that sentences grouped in just the right way form the stories we all know and love. We teach our children…

This time in the school year can be particularly difficult—a sort of doldrums. Everyone has been working hard for many months and summer still feels quite a ways off. You’re starting to feel the pressure of all that you haven’t…

  Q. What sticks with you from your research of famous women? A. Hannah: I remember clearly being confused about Polio when we read about Wilma Rudolph, but so impressed that she did not let this mysterious physical handicap stop…

Did you know that March is Women's History Month? I stumbled upon one of my prized possessions the other day, paper and pencil in hand, a writer looking for creative inspiration. As I unfolded the mass of faded-yellow legal pad…

Leonardo da Vinci said, “All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.” Well, Kim sent me this photo of the beginnings of an apple crisp that Taylor made and I just had to write about it! I immediately thought…

“Neo” from the Greek is new. “Logos” from the Greek is word. Put them together and what do you get? neologism A new word. So what better place to end our month of celebrating words. Yes, that’s right, we made…

Our new catagory, Idea Share will be just that…a place to share ideas that we love. Quick little posts about quick little ideas that will make teaching and learning a little easier or little more special. The styrofoam and paperboard…

We live in a colorful world. It all begins with a never ending profusion of nuclear explosions in our sun. Eight minutes later all that radiation arrives at the earth in the form of electo-magnetic waves. Outside we are engulfed…