In the beginning… His name was Brandon. It was 1989 and I was a first-year teacher in an Early Childhood Special Education class. He had been removed from multiple preschools because his behavior was difficult to manage. He had beautiful, beseeching brown eyes with impossibly long lashes. I could not manage his behavior, either. He…

Mr. Rogers’ Mom Was on to Something Fred Rogers’ mother comforted him when he was a child by challenging him to “Look for the helpers”, during a crisis. Mr. Rogers was a young boy in the 1930’s , when unemployment was high, the Dustbowl was driving farmers out of Oklahoma, and the news from Europe…

Greetings, Gesturers! Is this physics or simple math? I’ve been thinking a lot about how a part fits with a whole lately. Not as in ratio, but the Aristotelian thought that a whole is often greater a sum of its parts. Human beings are a great example: we’re made up of a collection of cells…