by Katy Tessman, New School Services Project Manager & Makerspace Specialist As educators, we know one of the most effective ways to introduce a new subject is by reading a book. Stories can [...]
My writing career grew out of 14 years in the classroom as an English and reading teacher in the public schools of Pagosa Springs and Durango, Colorado. My career choice owed a lot to an [...]
Like many middle school students, I was required to read S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders. I hate to admit it now, but I hardly gave it a chance before I labeled it as a number of things that didn’t [...]
My parents were the first people in my life who sparked a love for books and reading. My dad read to me when I was a child, and my mom would take me and my sister to the library regularly, [...]
As a child of the ‘90s, I grew up in the wild Wild West of the internet. It was not until I was in middle school when the internet became available to me to use at my “leisure” (on a hard-wired [...]
I have often wondered how I discovered the writer in me at the age of 40. In my wildest dreams, I never imagined being a writer. But here I am, a published author and a teacher of writing. We are [...]
