Sarah
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teacher/Artist/Mom |
| Location | United States |
| Introduction | I'm a public school elementary teacher from W.V. beginning my career in poverty schools in the 1980's. (I have GIST cancer-small intestinal and syringomyelia which isn't what I want to define me but does help define how I view the meaning of my life.) I am a mom of 3 great children-now grown. I teach 3rd grade in an Underperforming school, teaching mostly immigrant 2nd Lang. children. I majored in art, as well as teaching. Art informs all I do. Teaching is a driving part of my life energy. But I am turning to art soon. I'm married to an artist I coaxed into teaching- now a Superintendent of one of the bigger Districts in the area. Similar population. We both have dedicated inordinate amounts of our life to the field of teaching in areas of poverty hoping to give students opportunities to make better lives. I'm trying to write as I can to the issues of PUBLIC education , trying to gain the sophistication to address the issues in written forms so they can be understood from my teaching contexts.I like to blog from daily experiences. My work is my own, not reflective of any school district. |
| Interests | Art, teaching, writing, considering NCLB in a context, creating, drawing, biography, love, happiness, children, nature, environment, social justice, reading, craft, change, peace, thinking, cancer cures, universal medical care, public education, crochet, recipes, my kids, artists; like:J. Fish, Monet, Manet, Picasso, Rothko, O'Keefe, Feininger, Marc, Buckminster Fuller, abstract expressionism, poetry of Michael Salcman, understanding math, myths as expressions of man's *explaining* self, folk art-music, technology, peaceful resolutions, truth, integrity, friendships, france specifically the south Vienne, London, jazz, self, human rights, women's rising to equal opportunity, cooking, song, children's opportunity, singing |
| Favorite Movies | Secret of Roan Innish, Green Card, Groundhog Day, Painted Veil, Finding Forrester, Searching For Bobby Fisher, Renaissance Man, To Sir With Love, My Fair Lady, An Unmarried Woman, The Closet, Lost In America, The Scout, Goodbye Girl, To Kill A MockingBird, School of Rock, Spinal Tap, East of Eden, Streetcar, Love and Death, Manhattan, Silver Streak, European Vacation, The Bird Cage, The SongCatcher, intimate stories |
| Favorite Music | Al Jarreau, Joni Mitchell, Allman Brothers, Stravinsky, Shostakovitch, Peanut's music, Tchaikovsky, Coltrane, Miles, Bill Evans, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Denver, Dylan, Beethoven, Mozart, Steely Dan, Taj Mahal, Van Morrison, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Beatles, Eagles, generally jazz *trained* |
| Favorite Books | Becoming Human Through Art, The Way It's Spozed To Be, Gift of A Watermelon Pickle, Steinbeck's East of Eden, John Fowles, all Susan Ohanian's books, David Sedaris collections, Archy and Mehitabel, You Can't Go Home Again, Of Time and the River, The Big Sea, The Heart of Darkness, stories of artists/writers/bios/autobios, The Catcher in The Rye, Tennessee Williams, Death of A Salesman, A Christmas Carol, Travels With Charley, My Side of the Mountain, Charlotte's Web, D'Aulaire's Greek Myths, Shakespeare, Victor Hugo The Real Thing(short story), Henry James, Harriet The Spy, Charlotte's Web, Robert Louis Stevenson, like non-fic, romances, read a lot, a lot of ed |
What did you dream when you ate a spider while sleeping?
ok....that I wove a tapestry to rival one long ago seen in ancient Greece woven by Arachne.