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

Photo by Quinn Norton Posted in ChicagoNow, May 15, 2014 It’s the Manic Month of May – and every kid must perform. Parents, you know what...

Reading when not in school Published in ChicagoNow, March 27, 2014 You would think a former teacher and English major with a master’s...

A robot transformer created by my grandson Posted in ChicagoNow, March 24, 2014 Driving my 4-year-old grandson to his preschool in...

Published in ChicagoNow, February 5, 2014 It's been over 25 years since Robert Fulghum published Everything I Wanted to Know I Learned in...

Published in ChicagoNow, January 10, 2014 (cCartoon by Marcia Liss) Now I’m really angry! Cherry Preschool, which I founded and directed,...

Published in ChicagoNow, December 6, 2013 On December 3, 2013, the most recent scores from the Program of International Student...

Published in ChicagoNow, November 22, 2013 (Photo: Rachel Monroe/Monroe's Dragonfly) Today, on the 50th anniversary of the assassination...

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 Most of this post was printed in the Cherry Preschool newsletter in January of 2006, but it...