Still Advocating
Writings of a retired educator, advocate, & baby boomer

Published in ChicagoNow, November 6, 2013 (Photo by Marco Nedermeijer) My 4-year-old grandson who lives in another state wondered when...

Published ChicagoNow, October 25, 2013 A friend of mine who trains Chicago public elementary school teachers how to teach reading was...

Published in ChicagoNow, October 23, 2013 In a letter to President Obama dated October 22, 2013, top children’s authors and illustrators...

Published in ChicagoNow, October 23, 2013 Most of this post was printed in the Cherry Preschool newsletter in January of 2006, but it...

Published in ChicagoNew, October 21, 2013 My four-year-old grandson will be one of the youngest boys in next year’s kindergarten class. ...

Published in ChicagoNow, October 14, 2013 After being a teacher for seven years and supervising teachers for 25 years, I still firmly...

Published in ChicagoNow, October 4, 2013 I often gave a presentation to parents of children about to enter kindergarten that straddled...

Published in ChicagoNow, October 2, 2013 The nation’s five-year-olds filed into their schools for the first time last month, their faces...