This page provides links to the websites and blogs of the individuals who have written our guest blogs! We love to expand our posts to include others in education, parenting, and tutoring.
If you would be interested in possibly writing a guest blog, please email mark@mytowntutors.com.
A BIG thank you to all our guests!
February 2012
Guest Blog: Flipping the Classroom to Break Through in Today’s Society
Mayra Aixa Villar is a freelance instructional designer and researcher who is passionate about educational technology. She is currently finishing a thesis to obtain an MA in Applied Linguistics. Her dissertation is about linguistic modeling and computer-based applications. This project has allowed her to intern at UN HQ, participate in international meetings and collaborate in several research activities. You can also follow Mayra on Twitter @MayraAixaVillar or on http://ar.linkedin.com/in/mayraaixavillar
Guest Blog: Civil War Research
Rob Finkill has been teaching since 1996 and teaching 8th grade American History since 1999 in Hershey, PA for the Derry Township School District. Currently, his school has a 1:1 environment of students to laptops. He is a team leader of a multi-disciplinary team and coordinator of our Middle School Leadership Experience for Boys. Besides coaching volleyball and baseball, he has also taught Ancient Civilizations. The past two summers he has had the opportunity to be a Teacher Ranger at Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg, PA. At Gettysburg, he presented programs to visitors and worked to develop educational programs for school groups. Email :rfinkill@hershey.k12.pa.us Twitter @RobFinkill
Guest Blog: The Benefits of Raising Chickens for your Family
Scarlet Paolicchi of Family Focus Blog, a green family blog, is a stay at home mom blogger from Nashville who reports on family fun, eco tips, travel, giveaways, and products that you may find helpful or interesting.
Guest Blog: A Montessori Education
Shawn Trudeau is the founder/writer at thekidexperience.ca, a “dad blog” about the experiences of raising kids and offering ideas, insights and opinions to other parents and families on everything “kids”.
Philip Schnipper, CCC-SLP is a certified teacher and licensed speech pathology for the last 25 years. He has been a director of a speech clinic in addition to working in hospitals, nursing homes, and public schools. He has a Master’s Degree from Salem State College as a reading specialist and has done research in brain based teaching and learning. HE developed a learning program entitled Building Better Bridges for Learning which uses a specific language of learning which the brain is more easily able to process and understand. He can be contacted by phone 781-424-3596 or by email at learningmadesimple@gmail.com.
January 2012
Guest Blog: Should Kids Miss School for a Disney Trip?
Tami is an Application Developer by day, Family Nurturer by night. She is married with 2 small kids and lives in Colorado. She loves reading and the great outdoors, and has a blog chronicling some of her fun adventures. It features storytelling about family, humor, outdoors fun, wild toddlers, baking, naughty dogs, travel, kid’s perspectives, good reads, a giveaway every now and then, and all things Disney! You can find her at The Colorado Mountain Mom.
Guest Blog: Student Grades: How to Turn Around a Midyear SLUMP
Marc Hoberman is the Owner / Director of Grade Success Tutoring and Educational Consulting. His One Minute Educator Videos help students, parents, and teachers reach their full potential. Marc is available for Private or Group Educational Consulting via webcam or phone. Visit www.gradesuccessinc.com for more information.
Guest Blog: How to Beat the Sugar Blues
Barbara Rodriguez is the organic celebrity nanny. Her new book, The Organic Nanny’s Guide to Raising Healthy Kids: Reclaim a Natural Diet and Lifestyle for Your Child, is going to be released soon. You can find out more great organic parenting tips and sign up for her newsletter on the website- The Organic Nanny.
Guest Blog: Why Do We Do Things the Way We Do?
Amy Berrell is currently preparing to teach 3rd grade for the second year at a Christian School in New South Wales, Australia. She is passionate about incorporating innovative practices and technology into my classroom in a real and meaningful way. Throughout the year my class blog http://missberrell.blogspot.com/ will have pictures of my classroom and insights into the new practices being undertaken in our class.
Guest Blog: Bullying Behavior: Behavior That No One Forgets!
Jim Burns is best known for his presentations on Bullying, Motivating Disaffected Students, Defusing Power Struggles, Character Education, and Leadership. Jim has worked as a teacher and administrator since 1977. He is also an accomplished college instructor who teaches graduate level courses. He just completed writing and co-designing “The Bully Proof Classroom,” a graduate course that is now being offered at The College of New Jersey in partnership with The Regional Training Center. He has recently published a new book titled The New 3Rs in Education: Respect, Responsibility, and Relationships. This book is designed to create an awareness of the problems that teachers face today, and to give teachers the tools to create a classroom climate that is safe, secure, and conducive to learning. Please visit his website at www.bullyproofclassroom.com
Guest Blog: It’s an Honor to be a Mentor!
Gil Duzanski is a software engineer from Waltham, Mass, interested in education and mentoring. Gil is a CEO and founder of www.MyMentorLink.com, a startup that helps high school students explore careers and discover their interests and passions through job shadowing opportunities with local businesses.
Guest Blog: The Cure for Math Anxiety
Matthew Mandelbaum and Jamie Cohen are parents and learning specialists and are the creators of Jumping Joey’s Number Line. Jumping Joey’s Number Line is an innovative, child-centered, multi-sensory arithmetic learning system for Pre-K through Elementary. Jumping Joey’s Number Line fosters enjoyable, engaging, effective and efficient mathematical experiences, where students are motivated and build a strong math foundation with long-term understanding. Students feel successful and excited about learning opportunities, and confident in their emerging abilities. Visit http://www.jumpingjoeysnumberline.com
Guest Blog: Technology in the Classroom: Why and How?
Eric Kittlaus is the founder of Calcblog, which provides online math and graphing calculator tutorials for students and educators. He is a National Merit Scholar and is currently studying Math and Physics on a full tuition scholarship at Santa Clara University. His book, Ace the SAT Using Your TI Calculator, is now available through Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. Visit Calcblog at http://www.calcblog.com.
Guest Blog – Teaching Students to Teach Themselves
Dan Fullerton is a science teacher at Irondequoit High School & founder of APlusPhysics.com. He also is the author of “Honors Physics Essentials” and “The APlusPhysics Guide to Regents Physics Essentials.” Visit http://www.aplusphysics.com/
Guest Blog: Living History: Using Historical Fiction in the Classroom
Shelley Stout is a former teacher and published author of short stories, novels, magazine articles, and blogs. She presents workshops to teachers and enjoys being a writing mentor and tutor for children and adults. Shelley is available to speak to students via Skype.
Guest Blog: The Art of Teaching Second Language Learners
Lori Wolfe a public elementary ELD teacher in Ashland, Oregon. She has taught K-5th grades in dual immersion programs and bilingual classrooms. She has also taught as a Title One Bilingual Support teacher in Reading and Math.
She has authored 26 bilingual thematic units for Kingsley Publishing, and has written a series of reproducible bilingual Math Games. Lori has presented at numerous conferences including: •NCTM national convention •NABE National Association of Bilingual Education •TABE Texas Association of Bilingual Education •CABE California Association of Bilingual Education •Two-Way CABE •Illinois State Bilingual Conference In addition, she presents workshops on Strategic English Language Development. •Spotlight on ELD: Make and Take Workshop Oregon •Fun To Teach ELD Workshops Oregon and California
Guest Blog: Top 5 reasons why your child could benefit from tutoring
Tracy Schutz is a veteran middle school teacher who is passionate about at-risk students, e-learning, ed technology, and social media. -Looking for educational news and information? Find more here: http://dedication2education.com. You can also follow Tracy on Twitter @tracyschutz or at http://linkedin.com/tracyschutz.
Guest Blog: Teach the “Art” of Giving: 5 Artistic Activities for Holiday Giving
Sara Eberle is the host of MommaJam, a parenting podcast that covers MOP Culture (mom pop culture). She also reports on parenting topics every other Thursday on the South Shore’s 95.9 WATD-FM radio station live at 7:10 a.m.