Life
Notes from Thom’s life of teaching, reading, and travel.
Anne Frank and the Enchanting Pull of a Nation’s Literary Heritage
A personal reflection on how Anne Frank’s diary — and reading for the joy of it as a child — grew into a dream of standi...
The Importance of Doing It Over and Over
We cannot expect a short-term effort to give a long-term result.
Childhood Amnesia
Being told stories, and everything to do with reading and writing, is a large part of what lets a child form early memor...
Taking Notes Is Creating
Do not create; record life as truthfully as you can.
What You Are Looking For in a Trip of Your Own
3 questions that turn a trip — even a day trip! — into a life-changing one.
Priorities in Language Education
If a child is making no progress in a foreign language, the problem may lie in the mother tongue
In Fact, Every Child Likes Reading and Being Read To
A book that overwhelmed me, that first opened up, and then changed, how I see walking alongside children in READING.
Timothy Doner, and the Journey Through Languages That Made Him
Tim set out with, and “arrived at”, the same interests he had held from beginning to end: languages, history and politic...
Conflict brings out truth, creativity, and resolution.
Or: treat people kindly and give them a chance, and you will be surprised by what they can do for you.