Sometimes learning can be magical. Like a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis, learning can surprise us. It can take our breath away with little epiphanies or flashes of insight. Sometimes we learn when we least expect to, from unlikely sources, in ways we might never foresee.
Sometimes Magic Happens
The Little Boy
"The Little Boy" by Helen E. Buckley is a poem that first inspired me almost 30 years ago, and will always profoundly impact my teaching practice.
Structured Synthetic Phonics
Structured Synthetic Phonics programs teach students the predictable relationships between the sounds of speech (phonemes) and the alphabet letters (graphemes) we use in written language.