How do we learn? Each of us answers this question differently. Margy Burns Knight and Anne Sibley O’Brien offer important insights about compassion through their book Talking Walls, which gives kids a glimpse into the lives of others. Garrett Temkiewicz is using his experience with dyslexia to inform his own style as a middle school teacher. Our guests might cause you to think differently about the way lessons are learned.
Guests
Garrett Temkiewicz
Garrett Temkiewicz is a science teacher at Thornton Academy, where he teaches both astronomy and physics. While going through high school then on to college and graduate school, Garrett struggled with dyslexia. He discusses how he adjusted his learning and teaching style to further his education and career.
Margy Burns Knight and Anne Sibley O’Brien
Margy Burns Knight, a children’s book writer and career educator has received the National Education Association’s Author Illustrator Human and Civil Rights Award for her work with Anne Sibley O’Brien and the Children’s Africana Book Award for Africa Is Not a Country. A Peace Corps veteran she is a Service Learning Coordinator and English teacher.
Anne Sibley O’Brien illustrated Talking Walls and four other titles by Margy Burns Knight, plus 27 other books, 14 of which she also wrote. Anne was honored by the Maine Library Association with the lifetime achievement Katahdin Award for her body of work. She lives on Peaks Island and is excited to be a brand-new grandmother.