katiebee16

“I guess I could have one kid, if it’s that important to you” - said after 4 years of dating and serious talks about getting married. There were other issues in the relationship that I didn’t acknowledge at the time, but hearing this was definitely an eye opener. I didn’t want to… Read More

I had two girls take me aside after a tour at an elite liberal arts school in upstate New York to tell me that while they didn’t have Greek life, they did have “underground sororities” where older girls forced freshmen to wear tight bracelets. When the girls lost enough weight for… Read More

When teaching kindergarten, we had a bathroom inside the classroom one year. As we were making a list of steps for using the bathroom appropriately, I tried to prompt students to add “flush the toilet” by asking “what do you do when you’re done going?” A little boy, with all the earnestness… Read More

Social growth is just as important as academic growth! Kindergarten can be a child’s (and parent’s) first exposure to a real school experience, and learning how to be a positive, functioning member in a classroom and school community is crucial. While a big part of my job is to teach… Read More

this is a photo my friend took this past winter of the University of Vermont or as we affectionately call it, UVM.

"The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings." JM Barrie, the author of the Peter Pan series