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, February 9, 2022

CHAPTER 26: LAURA BROWN (in progress)

Hoping to make this book a better read, I enlisted the help of one of my former students, Laura Brown.  The Only Business Writing Book You'll Ever Need.  Laura Brown was one of my students in the 70's.

I remember Laura during her high school days (photo left) but in 2019 W. W. Norton & Company published her first book: The Only Business Writing Book You'll Ever Need. It is dedicated to her teacher Catherine M. Rose.  Who is Catherine Rose and what was it about her teaching that inspired Laura? Let's ask.


Laura Brown and Jennie Cohen


From the back-cover: 

"If you're writing anything, from an internal memo to a New York Times bestseller, keep The Only Business Writing Book You'll Ever Need next to your laptop.”  -- MICHAEL SNELL, president and CEO of The Michael Literary Agency. 

This jacket blurb caught my eye because when I was in the 7th grade, I added to my  LIFE LIST: write a New York Times best seller or a Pulitzer Prize winning book.







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