Life of a Reader
A mind takes root in Philly
It all began with Mom...
My first reading experience
Middle School
High School
High school was filled with all the usual angst portrayed in the media. Philosophy was all rage and today I still associate Atlas Shrugged with close friends lost and never regained.
College
Reading in college taught me to think outside the box. I remember my music professor telling me to stop reading "British mumbo-jumbo" and read something that made me think. I took out The Sound and the Fury from the library that day.
As a Teacher
Gradute school and my post-masters work exposed me to many different ideas about teaching and education. Today I stand on the shoulders of the giants who stood before me to educate the next generation of learners. My teaching is influenced by Uhry, Chall, Yopp and Yopp, Jeager Adams, Raphael, Campbell, Wilson, the Hunter College Special Education department, Beck, and others in the field of early readeing.