Why are life skills important for students? One of the greatest honors of my life has been using my story as a teen mom to teach life skills (as well as literacy and character education) to students through the S.O. What! Literacy, Life Skills, and Character Educuation curriculum. Life skills for students are a set […]
Basic life skills are a set of skills which help you prosper and advance in everyday life. You find that you will need different sets of like skills at different times in your life. There are 10 basic essential life skills. Because my book and the S.O. What! Literacy, Life Skills, and Curriculum follow […]
The importance of literacy can’t be stressed enough. On my lunch break for four years, I visited my mentee at the Adolescent Parenting Program. She complained about her relationship with her father and how he had no idea how she felt as a teen mother. She had read my first book, Life After Birth: A […]
I was shocked by the immediate interest of students in reading my first book, Life After Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother. Then I learned teachers were actually using it to help students improve literacy. First an educator asked me if I had a curriculum to accompany the book. I […]
What is Literacy After publishing my first book, Life After Birth- A Memoir of Survival and Success a Teenage Mother, I was amazed by how many students and educators were reading my story. A 5th grade guidance counselor told me that her students looked forward to their time reading my book and that it was […]
Okay, I can admit it. I cried. If you’re a parent, do you remember the first time you held your child? You’d waited months for that moment to see and hold that “thing” that had just been an idea or how it would actually look and feel was unknown. If you’re not a parent, you […]
When I published my first book, Life After Birth- A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother, I had no idea the impact it would have on students and adults. I was just telling my story. I had no idea that people all over the world would be reading my story including students […]
When I was asked to issue an official statement on the racial injustices many African Americans are currently facing and have for too long, I was ready. I didn’t know what I would say and could barely verbalize how hurt and even afraid I felt, but I had to say something. In the past […]
This morning when I woke up I followed my now normal routine. I drank a 32 ounce bottle of water with my favorite energy powder added, put on workout clothes and headed out the door for a 3-mile walk/run. That’s what gives me the energy I need for a good, long work-day. Which is what […]
