On First Drafts

As I move forward with this blog, I realize that I’ve been writing two books at the same time for many years.  The other one is called Growing Leaders: Learning Environment for the 21st Century and I started a blog for that one on April 2, 2014. My first post was called “On First Drafts” Read More…

Focus! Vocabulary A, B & C

I met with a friend this morning who presented me with a copy of her new book!  I haven’t been in touch with her since we left Brookings last November .. and in that short period of time she has tangible evidence of what can happen when someone decides to focus on a single project Read More…

Homeschool Away from Home

I started using  Edublogs in 2009 because I wanted to see if it could be used as an on-line literature circle with a small group of kids who were reading Call of the Wild.  I had limited success with that – partly because I was just learning about blogging, but also because the school year Read More…