Hello Beautiful People, I believe, more than anything, that the best teachers never stop learning. They never feel like they know it all. Their thirst for knowledge can never be quenched. And, they find teachers in everyone. Last week, I worked with a new student who was on home instruction. And just to clarify, I…
Hello Beautiful People, On Monday I went to a wake. For a young man who was 24. For a young man who was very loved. For a young man whose life was cut way too short. Yesterday in my class, I had a student tell me that kids use heroin cause it’s like…a flower, Ms….
Hello Beautiful People, It was the first day of a new session of camp. The students were anywhere between six and nine. Young. Impressionable. Little. And I had one student come up to me, frantic at the start of the day. She hadn’t brushed her hair. Clutching her little head, she informed me that her…
Hello Beautiful People, School is coming. [insert Jaws theme song here] JUST KIDDING – I’m not going to start weeping about the countdown to summer. But I am going to start talking about school. And what I hope this year will bring – for me, for you, and for the students who cross the threshold…
Hello Beautiful People, Yesterday three children lost their father. A wife lost her husband and best friend. And yes, the world lost one of the most brilliant actors and comedians to grace this earth. Countless quotes come to mind. Countless movies. Pictures. Clips. Countless memories of this man and all that he had given the…
Hello Beautiful People, So, I had a completely different post scheduled for today. So very different. But, as I sat down at my desk this morning, there was a package waiting for me! And, although I am a grown woman, I will admit that I get giddy about packages. Call me a cheese ball, call…
Hello Beautiful People, I am knee-deep, no scratch that, eyeball deep in work this summer. I’ve recently taken a position working at Bay Street Theater, and it’s been glorious. Helping build up their education program and working alongside some of the most magnificent producers and directors on the various programming that goes on at this…
Hello Beautiful People, This past week, I’ve had the privilege and the pleasure of working alongside Gregory Boyd in the Bay Street Theater’s production of Travesties for the past two weeks. Travesties, a play by Tom Stoppard, centres on the figure of Henry Carr, an elderly man who reminisces about Zürich in 1917 during the First World War, and…
Hello Beautiful People, I am a planner girl. Even with the iPads, the iPhones, iClouds, iCals…(you get the picture), I need to write things down. Like, with a pen. LIke, on paper. I need to see the insane schedule of the week right before my eyes. And I just love the satisfaction of crossing things…
Hi Friends, February Break – this mid winter gem where teachers get to let their hair down and forget about work for a week. What ever do teachers do during this beautiful break? I couldn’t tell you, because while I teach, I’m not a teacher, I’m a teaching artist, and yes there is a big…