Carol's Corner

This week, in my ongoing effort to complete my spring cleaning, organize my office, and prepare for the coaching class I will teach in Augus...

We are reaching the time in summer when I'm realizing that all of the projects, all of the cleaning and organizational stuff that I inte...

Anna Quindlen has an interesting article in this week's Newsweek.  A high school teacher attended the Freedom Writers' conference in...

Earlier this spring, I came across HOW TO STEAL A DOG, by Barbara O'Connor. I loved, loved, loved this book, and have decided that it wi...

Twelve-year-old Jamie is an army brat. Jamie's father, the Colonel, is a career military man, currently Chief of Staff at Fort Hood, Tex...

I'm always on the lookout for authors, artists, and poets that look and sound like the children I teach. I have struggled, a little, (an...

I have to confess. I'm not much of a television watcher, and I'm sure not a Sunday morning television watcher. When my mom told me t...