Take a close look at the human brain in the this photo. I taught my students: “Your brain is neurologically unique.”
As a teacher it became my life’s work to uncover their unique learning styles and open the doors for their optimal learning.

Nelson Mandela once wrote:
"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we lived...
it is what difference we have made to the lives of others
that will determine the significance of the life we lead."

"Sometimes it is the very people
who no one imagines anything of
who can do the things no one imagined."
--Alan Turing

Framed over the entrance to my classroom:
"Forget the struggling world
and every trembling fear.
Here all are kin...
and here the rule of life is love.”

--Irving Stone, 1947. (If students didn't see it overhead on the way in, they would come to feel it on their way out.)

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

CHAPTER 20 “A Beacon In A World That Was Sometimes Really Dark and Scary.”

At the end of my career, my daughter organized a retirement celebration attended by former colleagues and students dating back to my first days in the classroom. Michelle Masse Ellis could not attend but she sent this message in the form of a Power Point presentation. She was one of the youngest students to experience my Learning Expeditions where I guided learners on natural history field trips up to 14 days in the out of doors where they experienced science first hand, not from a text book or computer screen, real life!  We slept under the stars, ate wild abalone.  In those early years I called my outdoor science program Mobile Lab: School on Wheels, later it was known as The Wilderness School and Expedition Institute.

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