by Dawn | Aug 8, 2016 | Teaching
Are you ready for back-to-school season? All summer I’ve been anxious to know what I’ll be teaching this year, but that curiosity has finally gone away. What I teach doesn’t matter–it’s what students do with it that does. Here’s what I...
by Dawn | May 7, 2016 | Parenting, Teaching
“Mrs. L didn’t get the tickets yet. The first half sold out. We’ll try again tomorrow.” I said yes to something only an insano mom would do. MineCon. “What’s MineCon?” you ask. It’s twelve-thousand Minecraft people...
by Dawn | May 1, 2016 | food, Parenting, Teaching
“I have a cold. I need chocolate chip cookies.” “No. I’ll make you some tea,” I say. “I don’t want tea. I want a cookie,” says the boy. There’s no room for discussion here. This is the kind of conversation that...
by Dawn | Aug 19, 2015 | education reform, self-improvement, Teaching, writing
Last weekend I went to the John Marshall Media studios in Manhattan where I recorded the audiobook for “Don’t Sniff the Glue: A Teacher’s Misadventures in Education Reform.” I’m normally not starstruck, but then I saw the audiobook cover...
by Dawn | Jul 9, 2015 | nature, parenting
“Mom, look. There’s a moth with two heads!” Declan’s staring at the moth on the side of the house. I look. Sure enough, there are two heads there. The thing is, they’re not near each other, as one would expect in a hydra-moth,...
