I felt like the stereotypical problem gambler in the vise-like grip of creditors (predators,) owing way more interest than I’d originally signed on for. How so? Quite simply, I was at the mercy (there is none) of debt collectors, because I hadn’t paid my student loans. But I wasn’t some casual drifter who ignored responsibilities….
Today’s Sheila Resseger commentary in the Providence Journal is a call to arms for parents, educators, and all who care where we’re going regarding Common Core and the PAARC. It’s not the first time former teacher Resseger’s weighed in, but her war cry’s gaining traction: Teachers’ union NEARI has determined to inform parents that they…
You know what teachers’ biggest complaint is? Pseudo teachers telling us how to teach. You know who I mean…the self-appointed, supposed experts…the ones who got out of the classroom…or never got into it…because they were either being eaten alive by the kids or they feared that fate. Now, they’ve morphed into education’s resident experts who…
“Just as trees add rings of growth each year, good teachers wax in their craft right ‘til the end. “ Colleen Kelly Mellor
Teaching Styles The picture? Yep..it’s of the iconic apple that folks always associate with teachers. So, my question to you: As teacher, are you of the red “Delicious” variety or the slightly-tart, green, of the “Granny Smith” family? I choose to think I was the latter, since I often laced my teaching style with…
I’ve always pretty much gotten notice, for either being one of the tallest women in the room (at 5’9”)….having former “kids” recognize me in super markets or at the Mall, and now, from folks who read my Op-Ed’s in the newspaper. All have brought forth interesting reactions. When some of my former students comment “You…
The really exciting news? Our Grandpa and the Truck books are recognized by schools and teachers who say “Grandpa and the Truck” books align with Common Core. As 30 year, successful teacher, I wasn’t really surprised. Many of us always used the principles of Common Core, in teaching; it’s just that now, those principles are…
But, we’d really just love to meet you…We’ll have a trucker display, with the big rigs, and maybe even some sound effects (like an air horn). Come Saturday to our first appearance at RI Authors’ Expo, West Warwick’s Civic Center (see flyer)…We are the first husband/wife team who produce the Grandpa and the Truck books…
But I Did Take a Breather This Summer…. Last year, I kept a punishing schedule, writing each day, from 7:00 AM til 1:00 PM, while I maintained two regular columns–one for the Providence Journal’s Op-Ed pages and another as transplant to our North Carolina mountain town, Asheville, for an alternative newspaper called the Mountain Xpress…
