...I use the John Collins Writing and Empowering Writers programs to help students approach writing as an engaging and very personal process of expression. This process includes collecting thoughts through brainstorming and free-writing, organizing and planning, writing a draft, editing, and finall... (read more)
...During my 30-year career in journalism, I never used spell check and yet I had a reputation among editors for always turning in extremely "clean" copy. I still make a living by writing, and I still avoid the pitfalls of spell check. You will never find a misspelled word in anything I have writt... (read more)
...In my career I have worked as an ES and MS general education classroom teacher, an ES and MS instructional coach, and an ES and MS principal. I specialize in quickly raising student reading achievement; I have had students grow .75 years worth of growth after one six-week intervention cycle! I ... (read more)
...Navy Submarine Force, and have since worked with both defense contractors and commercial nuclear power plants. I have a Bachelor of Science degree in Systems Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy, and a Master of Education degree from Norwich University. (read more)