Back to school and bored already? Liven up the year with a visit to your school from a teaching artist -- like me. In Quebec, we have two great programs to help fund an author or artist visit to your school: Culture in the Schools and ArtistsInspire. Culture in the Schools The Ministry of Education's… Continue reading Funding for Writing Workshops in 2024-25
A late August entry in my journal includes this little ditty dedicated to parents of teenagers in summertime: They were laughing, he and she, in their private cafe, before you stepped out of your room grown tall beyond towers of blocks, beyond models, stories, construction paper, beyond anything you built together. They drained their cups and turned their faded faces, remembering… Continue reading Three Cheers for the Big Yellow Bus
Catherine Austen 