I Keep Doing Something Weird
For the last four months, I’ve noticed something about myself that is weird! I consider myself an odd person anyway, so it’s not that unusual to have a thought like…
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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…
Thoughts on Educational Reform Series: Reversal of Knowledge, From Needed to Wanted!
The following was written after in December of 2012, following a Garden Club unit on Conifers. I recently came across this saved piece of writing and decided to share. I…
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…
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.…
Learning & Connections
There is a constant about being a lifelong learner and that is you are never done! Learning occurs over the lifespan for those who choose to continue on this journey…
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…
