THE DUTY TO DEVELOP

Ellie returned to school last week. While it was far from normal, I appreciate the German government’s commitment to return to a cohesive...

My family is on our 6th week of German school at home. I think everyone has had some interesting experiences because of COVID-19 and the ...

Time seemed to stand still as I anxiously awaited Ellie’s return from her class trip. Standing on the platform, I was thrilled to see the...

Today I took half my heart to the train station for Jünkerath. Ellie is going on a class trip to a youth center near the Belgium border o...

Recently, I was invited to guest teach an English lesson in Crawford’s German elementary school classroom. I was excited to share with kl...

Hands-on, project-based, or kinesthetic: there are many different ways that children learn in the classroom beyond simply paper and penci...

Tonight my son overheard a conversation I was having with my husband about my anxiety for an upcoming dental visit. (Fun fact: I despise ...

We are over 7 months into our journey as a military family, just wrapping up our third month overseas, and I’ve come down with an unimagi...

I find myself reflecting after a parent/teacher night spent at a school where, instead of being the teacher, I was both a parent and a fo...

Earlier this summer, in June, I traveled to Germany to visit my husband and start making plans for our new life overseas. We had three ma...

How children learn to use scientific language in play and in life. I recently took my two children, Crawford (6) and Ellie (8), and my ne...