Making the World a Smaller Place
It’s a small world after all. The words of the Disney song, “It’s a Small World, ” ring more true the older I get. Maybe, it’s because I have been…
Category: Student Life
Garden Club Lessons: Making Seed Bombs
My second garden club group is coming to an end. I have mixed feelings about letting it go. Last week, I turned in my resignation to the principal at a…
Rotary International
For a while now, I’ve had a private love affair. No one knows about it except for my husband! Yes! It’s true! My husband is the only one that knows…
Forest Stewardship
Yesterday, I talked to 135 second graders about treating our forests as our friends. I used the concept of community to make the lesson as familiar as possible for them.…
Imbuing Excitement
The following post is a reprint of a paper I wrote five years ago this spring, during my very first course for graduate studies in the field of Environmental Education.…
What We Do For Students
Last night it happened again. Garden club ended, I had 13 students in attendance, and at dismissal, all were picked but one. Unfortunately, this occurrence has become routine for this…
Poetry Friday: Alphabet Poems with Third Graders
Some years ago, about four – I think, I had my writer’s circle students write a compilation of alphabet poems. There were six students in my group, each getting four…
Qualities of Leadership Series: #4 Transparency
What is transparency? Throughout my involvement in different educational systems, institutions of higher learning, and other types of business ventures such as health care, I have learned that transparency is…
