Tag: children’s books

• Sharing Ideas and Failing Up

  If I had to identify one thing I do well in the classroom, it’s this: I create an environment where it’s the norm to take risks, fail, and explore half-baked ideas. My guess is that I model all three of these things. I fail up pretty much all the time, and I’m in the habit…

  jordanbeck

  July 8, 2017

• Death and Dying

  My in-laws live on a farm, and one of their horses loves llamas. For as long as I’ve known him he’s had the same llama companion. But last year the llama died. And my daughter asked where he went. My mother-in-law didn’t know what to tell her. When she told me about this and asked…

  jordanbeck

  March 2, 2017