Hi! With some of us started back in classes, and others (including me) getting ready to start, I can't help wanting to hold on to parts of summer break. So - I'm wondering what all you did this summer that was meaningful to you.
For me, it's two main things. I spent a great deal of time down in Chatham, Virginia, my "second home" where my wife has housing at her school and which I have grown to love, and my friends have said I'm becoming southern. I think in this case, they mean slowing down a bit, taking my time, focusing more on being in the moment and making connections with people and my environment rather than rushing through something in order to get to the next. I would love to keep that perspective going through the year. The other thing I want to mention was a more traditionally professional development kind of activity, reading a book entitled "The Female Brain." Teaching at an all-girls school, I knew a fair amount of what the book had to say about female-brain wiring and its effect on relationships and learning, but I only knew bits about the post-natal effect of hormones on wiring and on behaviors. It was illuminating, and helps me not only in my teaching but also in my social justice work. How about the rest of you? Take care, Bill Ivey Stoneleigh-Burnham School _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
