7th Grade with Melanie Beaver
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | 7th grade English Teacher |
| Location | West Terre Haute, Indiana, United States |
| Introduction | I am passionately driven by the roles I play: being a mom for 14 years, a wife for 20 years, 7th grade Language Arts teacher (How can this be year 20!?), and an Adjunct Reading Professor at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (rookie year). I'm a true-blue three-time ISU Sycamore ('93 B.A., '98 M.Ed., '12 Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction). I blog because I am having wayyyy too much fun to keep it all to myself! |
| Interests | Reading, Writing, Teaching, Consulting. Creating beautiful gifts for people I love and even for people I don't know, Running, Working out, Cooking (yeah, I know!), Raising my 2boys, Finding inspiration in other people's passions. |
| Favorite books | Tipping Point, Outliers, & Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Twain, The Giver series (all 4 books) by Lowry, The Soul of an Indian, Traveler's Gift, Last Lecture, Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire, Anything written by Todd & Beth Whitaker, Milkweed by Spinelli, Dr. Seuss books, .....oh stop me!!!!!! |