12 Ergebnisse.

Weekly columns by an elementary school principal during his six years in a small town in Maine.

A collection of essays about life in Castine, Maine and environs written by writer and educator Todd R. Nelson. During his six years as principal of the Adams School in Castine, and twenty year relationship with the Blue Hill peninsula, Nelson wrote frequently for Maine Public Radio, The Christian Science Monitor, Bangor Daily News, Maine Times, Bangor Metro, and other state and national publications. This book is a collection of those writings.

Essays by Todd R. Nelson that first appeared in the Home Forum of The Christian Science Monitor, Maine Public Radio, The Bangor Daily News, Maine Public Radio, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Ellsworth American, and other regional and national publications. Nelson is an educator who lives in Maine.

Essays from progressive school head Todd R. Nelson about life at The School in Rose Valley-and beyond.

A Must-Read for any Mainer . . . or anyone who dreams of becoming a Mainer. Giving up a life in Chicago, Todd R. Nelson moved with his family to the stark contrasts of Castine, Maine. What began as a leap of faith turned into a family epoch of wonderful activity, professional and personal development, an unlimited inspiration, hard work and struggle, friendship and enchantment. "What lucky fools, "Nelson writes in his introduction. Cold Spell...

A collection of essays about life in Castine, Maine and environs written by writer and educator Todd R. Nelson. During his six years as principal of the Adams School in Castine, and twenty year relationship with the Blue Hill peninsula, Nelson wrote frequently for Maine Public Radio, The Christian Science Monitor, Bangor Daily News, Maine Times, Bangor Metro, and other state and national publications. This book is a collection of those writings.

Keine Beschreibung.

Maine Public Radio commentaries, written and broadcast between 1998 and 2008, by writer and educator Todd R. Nelson.

This collection is incomplete. It is also impossible to complete, perhaps undesirable to complete. So these vignettes will have to stand for so much more. Perhaps, like other stories in this genre, they will inaugurate your own echoes and paths of recollection in your family. I hope so.

Constructivist learning projects make for the best days at school--for both students and teachers. Here are stories of those days of epic learning.

Christmas is about stories. For my friend Jonathan, it is A ChildÍs Christmas in Wales, by Dylan Thomas, and the family tradition of reading it aloud on Christmas Eve. He passed it on to me. For me, it is about the story that each Christmas tree tells, the tradition of adding train cars to the model railroad, and the etchings in the family table. IÍm passing them on to you.

columns about teaching writing in middle school from a veteran teacher and school principal.