Have you ever achieved something that you didn’t even consider pursuing because you didn’t even know it was a “thing.” Well, here’s my teen mom homecoming achievement. 20 years I did just that when I was named Ms. University of Memphis 2000-2001. Teen Mom Goes to College In 1997 I stepped onto the campus of […]
I don’t think anyone sets out to do or create anything without the goal of success. And that’s why it was my mission to create a successful character education curriculum. I had completely exposed myself and felt completely vulnerable after publishing my memoir, but it was completely worth it once I learned just how much […]
In my post So What is Character Education, I began to explore character education. A group of experts and educators came together in 1992 to develop the six pillars of character education. These six pillars of education were designed to help students develop character through school activities. The interesting thing about the six pillars of […]
After digging deep into the pillars of character education, I spent time focusing on the principles of character education. That I wanted to include into the S.O. What! Literacy, Life Skills, and Character Education curriculum. Character.org (formerly the Character Education Partnership) developed the detailed framework called 11 Principles Framework for Schools: A Guide to Cultivating […]
After focusing on literacy and life skills for the S.O. What! Literacy, Life Skills, and Character Education curriculum. I began research specifically on how character education. I knew that getting students to read and to read better was critical. And I also recognized how easily I could teach important life skills through my story, but […]
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 my […]
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 […]
