I have always considered myself a storyteller. As a child, I wrote short stories, poems, and enlisted my siblings to participate in the plays I wrote and directed. People are hardwired to tell stories and those stories connect us to …
In the hallway, right outside of my classroom, we have fashioned a large tree out of laminated construction paper. It is our “Thankfulness Tree”, and the elementary students have been invited to attach to it leaves of various colors on …


