I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.
The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.
I have very little patience with children.
As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes.
When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.
I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.