Teacher Visits Bridge Relationships between Home and School

Schools across the United States have opened their doors to kick off a new school year.  Teachers and administrators have engaged in professional development to revise procedures and protocols in hopes of making this next school year even better than the last. In...

But Words Will Never Hurt Me?

I used to end my classes with this message to my students: Be nice to those people different than you. Since no two people are the same, the message was to be kind to every single person. I committed to this mission because of the lack of empathy toward one another I...

Why Support the Arts?

I recently learned of the following information and feel that it builds nicely on my last two posts: Do the Arts Make Kids Smarter? and The Arts Are Good For… As I have written in earlier posts, studies continue to show the value of the arts as basic in education....