Sometime in the early Nineties, I started to write a book about a kid and a bicycle. At the beginning, I had only a vague idea of what the story was, and an even vaguer idea of how to write a book. I got rid of the parents in the early chapters (first rule in [...]
Archive for October, 2009
“Life is short, art is long” – Darius Frobisher lives
Posted in Artists, Books, Children, Fiction, Life lessons, Story, tagged Publishing, writing on October 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Latest favorite music – Danny Ellis
Posted in Children, music, School culture, singer/songwriter, tagged 800 Voices on October 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My friend David Holt gave me a recording by Danny Ellis, called “800 Voices”. It is truly gorgeous. Danny is an incredible songwriter and singer from Ireland, now living in the States, and the album documents his childhood growing up in the Artane Brothers Christian School, an infamous orphanage in Ireland and a very, very [...]
The structure of teaching
Posted in Children, School culture, Story, Teachers and teaching, tagged education, storytelling, workshop on October 8, 2009 | 7 Comments »
When I do workshop with teachers on stories and storytelling, I talk about how we perceive the infrastructure of education and teaching. What some would have us believe is that the structure of education and learning is: a state board of education, then a town board of ed, then a superintendent, then a bunch of [...]
I Meet My Enemy
Posted in arts presenters, Children, performing for children, School culture, School discipline, Schools, Song, Story, storytelling, Teachers and teaching, tagged education, learning, performance on October 1, 2009 | 19 Comments »
A little while ago I was doing school visits in a city in California – four or five schools in a week. It’s part of the itinerant traveling whatever-I-am that I never know what to expect when I show up at a school or library or theater. That week I got it all. One of [...]
