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Funding an Author Visit—There’s Money Available!
I LOVE speaking at schools and leading writing workshops. By now, I’ve visited enough campuses to see a wide disparity in demographics. I’ve been to inner city elementary schools with metal detectors and bars on the windows, and I’ve been to schools with sparkling courtyard gardens and laptops for every child. Whether a school is [Read More]
Spring 2019 Newsletter, a School Visit Offer, & a Cover Reveal
Welcome to my March/Spring E-newsletter, reproduced here for your convenience. If you’d like to subscribe to my newsletter so that it arrives in your inbox, click here. Special School Visit Offer Happy almost spring! Thank you for taking a few moments to read my e-news. While 2019 snuck in and raced through the first months, [Read More]
Think School Visits Only Help the Students? Think Again!
Hello, friends! As I sit in my dining room on this cold and rainy Saturday, I am reflecting on the thirty-four schools that I have visited since mid-September. Yes, thirty four! Tomorrow, I leave for a full week of school visits in Houston, and more schools are on my calendar after that, so the number [Read More]
Thanks for Making 2017-18 a Great School Visit Year!
40+ page book of watercolor art, kindness-inspired messages from a third grade class in Iowa made me