Artistic ESL: The Benefits of Incorporating Music with ESL Instruction As with all teaching methodologies, ESL instruction works best when learning is connected with making the material meaningful in a memorable way. While there is a place for textbooks and direct instruction, language learning in particular is very sensory based. At the same time, the […]
Our world is full of beauty. Beauty can be seen and beauty can be heard. Think of the sounds of Chinese, Russian, French, Dutch, Hindi, German, Zulu, Swiss, and Hebrew. To the untrained ear, these sounds can seem like watercolors on a watery canvas, a mayhem of colors without lines. But to the trained ear, […]
There’s Still Sunshine… I was hired in 2020. It was a few months into the pandemic, and I was focusing my attention on songwriting. The process of songwriting is often therapeutic for me. It was a challenging season, not just because of the Coronavirus but there were other pieces of that season that just made […]
