Re: [MOSAIC] Calkins

2007-09-03 Thread Beverlee Paul
Pat - Certainly you may do whatever you wish with my words. I'm not a closet Lucy-fan at all!! Thanks for your kind words. Bev Bev, This is so awesome. True friendships hard to find. People you can trust and grow with. I realize as I read your words that I feel this way about a few authors

Re: [MOSAIC] Calkins

2007-09-02 Thread Beverlee Paul
Well, I certainly cannot speak of either experience because I never leave Nebraska, but . . . I cannot miss the opportunity to speak of my friend, Lucy Calkins. Lucy and I first met, so to speak, when I read Lessons from a Child many years ago and our friendship deepened with Living Between

Re: [MOSAIC] Calkins

2007-09-02 Thread Patricia Kimathi
Bev, This is so awesome. True friendships hard to find. People you can trust and grow with. I realize as I read your words that I feel this way about a few authors and also about two listserv groups I have been with for years. With or without your name, as you would like, I would

[MOSAIC] Calkins

2007-09-01 Thread Kukonis
Hi! I teach in Short Hills, New Jersey. We are a satellite school for Teacher's College in Columbia. That means that many of our demonstration lessons are done by people who work in the reading and writing project or who are researchers who align themselves with Columbia's pedagogy.