Colleen Dong

Amy Tan started taking drawing lessons in her sixties. These lessons gave her the skill to beautifully capture her encounters with animals, and she found herself particularly drawn to birds. However, this experience also gave her something else: a renewed sense of curiosity.   In her book The Backyard Bird Chronicles, Tan writes about her journey […]

Many teachers find themselves in a classroom full of first-time students bursting with curiosity and excitement. In this early education classroom, it is likely that the young students are illiterate. While this is a challenge in many ways, it creates a particularly interesting and rich teaching dynamic that reflects ancient strategies used to communicate with