I still remember the day I tried to read a poem to a group of children and noticed something was missing. I was reading the words, but they were not feeling them. I could tell the poem sounded nice, yet the meaning was not reaching them, and that moment stayed with me. So I changed … Read more
I remember the first time I tried to teach metaphors to middle school students. I was standing there, explaining definitions, giving examples, and honestly, I could see it on their faces. Nothing was clicking. I felt that familiar frustration because I knew the topic was powerful, but the way I was teaching it was not … Read more
I remember the day I tried to explain metaphors to a group of kids, and all I saw were confused faces staring back at me. I was talking, they were listening… but nothing was clicking. That’s when I realized the problem wasn’t the kids it was the way I was explaining it. So I paused, … Read more
