At any rate, her editors were looking for people to read early manuscript copies, and he gave them my name. Eventually (a month after he told me all this!), the book came in the mail to the owner, who then asked if I wanted it. I had a fangirl moment “Ohmygod, ohmyGod, OH...
The first thing I like to do with new students on the BA is to create a learning-environment where they can feel at home and start to think that studying at university at this time of their life is the right thing for them. How do you do that? For many of our students, school –...
I had just finished shooting The Passion of Isabel with Bea (Beatriz Rivera) and had the set with all the props for a few more days, so she (Dani) came over for a test and I was very surprised that she did not have any problems getting all undressed to be chained up and mistreated...
Join SCBWI and Children’s Book Insider. They have been the most valuable resources for me. But also, I’ve attended incredible webinars and classes with 12×12, Highlights, The Writing Barn, Storyteller Academy, and The Children’s Book Academy. [JM] Do you have a fun school visit anecd...
Piper Evans: elementary school teacher by day--avid romance reader and anonymous podcaster by night. She has a quiet, reclusive life, taking care of her mother, who lives with mental illness, avoiding her regrettable ex, who bartends in town, and trying to make inroads in the tight-knit ...
Summer vacation was not everything Jess Aarons hoped it would be, but there’s a treat waiting for him with the return of the school year: the opportunity to race his classmates and leave them all in his dust. He’s been practicing all summer and is pretty confident in his ability to ...
They used materials that made it possible for locals to help with the construction. Getting locals involved is one of the “key components of the foundation’s broader social and economic mission.” A construction manager on the project said of the school’s design: “The point of the structu...
generation of high school students who desire to not only learn from their mistakes but also learnbeforethe mistakes. Indeed, the road of life may be bumpy, but as the driver, you have control of the vehicle. This begs the question to you: what are you doing to be ready for...
And emotion that it’s taken this long for that vision of the world to come to me. Then there were some clips of various speeches. Tony Estanguet, a French Olympic canoeist and the president of the organizing committee for Paris 2024, said in his speech, “When the sport starts, we ...
This set of pictures captures life on the campus of Beijing Chen Jing Lun High School in the last days before the final showdown. Chinese hiker went missing at Mt. Whitney in west U.S. A 27-year-old female Chinese hiker, Dongying Qiu, went missing at Mt. Whitney, California in ...