PinnedDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion Wisdom for Summer Camps*: A Guide to Evolving Through Structures…It’s a four-hour drive through the central part of California, turning east on highway 180 and on up into the mountains to get to summer…Sep 9, 2021Sep 9, 2021
PinnedCanned Curriculum: Ditch it. The Creative is You.I have a real distaste for canned curriculum. The memories of being forced to follow a pacing guide, being reprimanded if I wasn’t on the…Dec 30, 2019Dec 30, 2019
TSA and Disabilities: Navigating Unwelcoming SpaceYou are suspicious when traveling with a visible or invisible disability or chronic illness until you prove you aren’t. By now, my audience…Jul 26, 2022Jul 26, 2022
Expanding My Horizons and Learning to Sail: Taking to the Seas During a World of Too Much!They call the wind Mariah. I am named after that song. I’ve always loved that it means the wind. And with my new study, interest, and…Sep 2, 2021Sep 2, 2021
Structure and Focus your Way Through ThisWhen your creative drive fails you, build a structure. The last few weeks have been too much on top of too much. We grieved the passing of…Sep 23, 2020Sep 23, 2020
Ways to Hold our Children through Collective Crisis and GriefOur children are going through a crisis of epic proportion that they will remember for the rest of their lives. They will experience…Mar 29, 20201Mar 29, 20201
Review of the new Alphabet Rockers album “The Love.”I don’t teach Kindergarten anymore but this album really makes me wish I was holding circle with a bunch of 5 year olds! I am…Aug 26, 2019Aug 26, 2019
A mixed race Black woman, has always lived in Interesting Times: The Venice Biennale.(May You Live in Interesting Times is the theme for the 58th Venice Biennale.)Jun 17, 2019Jun 17, 2019
Showing Up for Our Birthright at She The People Summit 2018I was late to the summit. Bay Area traffic had me waiting for decades to cross the Bay Bridge. Agitated with myself and the world for many…Sep 22, 2018Sep 22, 2018
Published inEducation.com’s Teacher VoiceStretch and Explore: Movement-Based Learning to Create a Culture of Thinking!November 12, 2015May 20, 2016May 20, 2016