Spring Break!
Our school has Spring Break this week – and so will Parking Suns. I’ll be back in the beginning of May. Enjoy the lovely weather!
Bronx Charter School for Better Learning
Teachers College Columbia University: Distinguished Alumni Award
Here I am standing on the stage in the breakfast room at Teachers College Columbia University. Professor Jo Anne Kleifgen, my doctoral dissertation adviser from the 1990s, is reading a
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My Keys to PD
A few years ago, the Parkinson’s Foundation published an online article titled “Improving Brain Function with Exercise, Connectedness and Creativity.” (But it’s no longer on their website…oh-oh…oh, well.) I pasted
Plenty o’ Sun in Primary School Writing
I work at the two Bronx Charter Schools for Better Learning. I’m called a “Professional Development Specialist,” which means I get to train new teachers and teaching assistants in our
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Korean Sijo Contest Winners’ Field Trip
Every year my school’s Korean language and culture program, which I coordinate, holds a sijo-writing contest for its 2nd and 3rd Grade students. We define sijo (pronounced “she–jo”) as a three-line poem that
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Choking Explained?
I’m taking a graduate course at my public charter school in the Bronx, and we are reading a book by Caleb Gattegno titled In the Beginning There Were No Words: The
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Writing in Kindergarten
This week I was in a kindergarten class at my school, sitting next to a girl who was writing in her journal. Her teacher’s instructions were to write anything she
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The Perennial Closet + Yet Another Symptom
Here’s something that happened to me this week. I work in a public charter school in the Bronx, and I was in a 5th Grade science class while the children
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Pour Another Cup
As I recently blogged, I’m going to read and respond to books and articles about Parkinson’s disease via a reader response format that we use with students at my school,
Change #3 After the World Parkinson Congress: Deeper Reporting. Case #1: Yuma Bev
I realized at the recent World Parkinson Congress that I should be reading more books and articles about PD, and that my blog posts could dive more deeply when I
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