Beginner's Mind, Paperback

Told through the eyes of a ten-year-old, Beginner's Mind asks the question, "How do we want teachers to teach, inspire, and guide our children?" The answer is provided through a series of fourth grade classroom scenes that take us back to a shipyard town in New England, where a loving teacher opens her students' eyes to all-but-unimaginable dreams and opportunities. This is a book that reminds us of what teaching can look like: daily lessons where standardized and measurable curriculum goals are less prized than the immeasurable blossoming of our children, and a classroom that puts on display the possibilities before us when a teacher's love is combined with the beginner's mind. As the author shares in these classroom stories, a beginner's mind knows that art is not just for artists and music is not just for musicians.

About author(s):Award-winning poet, educator, and writer, M.B. McLatchey's passion for learning was instilled at an early age and led her to some of the best colleges in the world. She earned a graduate degree in Literature at Harvard University, a Master of Arts in Teaching at Brown University, an MFA in Creative Writing at Goddard College, and a B.A. from Williams College. Author of several widely praised books and publications, she is currently a Florida Poet Laureate and Professor of Classics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.