Happy New Year 2015! Going to SECA in New Orleans? What a great place for a conference with wonderful sessions planned. Jan 15-18, 2015 If you are there, come visit me and attend my sessions! I will be doing a Preconference session on Thursday Jan. 15, at 3:45-4:45 in Toulouse A and B. The session […]
This Saturday, I had the amazing opportunity to work with my creative “Think Tank”. For more than three hours our heads buzzed with ideas as we talked at amazing speed. This small group is composed of early childhood educators who are helping me think about the content for a new project that will inspire creativity […]
What a great conference in Dallas – and what fun to share it with my daughter Christy Isbell! As many of you know we share a professional interest in “Environments That Work for All Children” and have written several books on this topic. We are so busy, but it was very special to have time […]
Welcome to my new friends from Columbia, SC Richland One School District. Last week I had the wonderful opportunity to work with PreK through 2nd grade teachers in this large district. What dedicated and caring teachers they were, and they were active participates with me in my Keynote session and breakout sessions too! Our interactions […]
I just got back from McAllen, TX, where I did training with some wonderful early childhood educators. The world over, I find that early childhood educators are positive and caring people. This was certainly true in TX! In McAllen, the special people who attended my sessions were engaged and active participates. We shared stories, sang […]
What a great festival this has been, and I hope all of you will have the opportunity to attend next year on Oct 2-4, 2015. Today I heard some tellers I had not heard before: Kate Campbell with songs and stories from Sledge Mississippi, Regis Carpenter who told about the power of the human spirit, […]
The first full day of the “International Storytelling Festival” Now the tough decisions must be made, like which tent should I go to so see some of the storytellers? Some tellers are very familiar like: Donald Davis, Carol Birch, and Bill Harley. While others are “new voices” – the first time they have told at […]
Welcome to Jonesborough TN! Today is the opening of the International Storytelling Festival. I am so lucky to be living in such a wonderful place and enjoying the festival that has been happening for over 25 years. This is the place where storytelling was “reborn” and the spark that ignited the growing international interest in […]
Last week I was in Salem MA. for a wonderful visit with a friend and colleague. Since I am beginning a new writing project, I needed to get my creative juices flowing. She selected the perfect place to get my ideas going, a wonderful museum with a new exhibit of the works of Alexander […]
What a wonderful experience I have had teaching graduate students in Denmark. My students were so bright, responsive, and enthusiastic. They are working hard to find ways to develop environments that are both nurturing and appropriate for their young children. What is their secret to happiness? I believe the answer is “fewer things to […]