Kathy Snyder High school students who fail a state reading test can be hard to motivate, but teacher Kathy Snyder in Florida found a way, right at the end of the school year. Her brilliant work in using a young adult novel I had written got her...
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The St. Augustine Trilogy – Young Adult series – paranormal & historical – reading classroom use. These books fictionalize, but accurately represent, events that happened in America’s oldest and most haunted city, St...
Read moreTeen Reading Motivation that Worked!
Teen reading motivation is a tough job, to say the least. The kids I’m talking about here are often the ones who fail statewide assessment tests and end up in reading classes. Exasperated parents and teachers everywhere live with this situation...
Read moreTrayvon Martin. Justice in Central Florida?
Civil liberties? Justice? Equality? Safety? All of those things are in question not just north of where I live here in Central Florida but in the rest of this state as well. The recent killing of an African American young man and the release...
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