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A mother of two girls and an award-winning educator, Melissa Taylor holds a Master’s Degree in Global Education, with expertise in early childhood and elementary education and a focus on literacy and play. She has taught all subjects for the elementary grades and preschool.

Bilingual in English and Spanish, Taylor has taught English as a Second Language, taught Spanish-speaking children in inner-city Denver Public Schools and in the federal migrant program, and served as a literacy trainer in underperforming schools for the Public Education & Business Coalition (PEBC). She was a four-time consecutive winner of Outstanding Teacher in Douglas County.

Melissa writes about education, learning, children’s literature, technology, and advocacy for p
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When a bull…dog finds a treasure map, he embarks on a treasure hunt for gold. Along the way, he meets a dragon…fly and a sun…flower, as well as other gold colored things, but none are what he’s looking for. Perfectly timed page turns between the comp ...more
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C.S. Lewis
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
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“Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn.”
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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
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message 2: by Melissa (last edited Aug 25, 2016 10:58AM)

Melissa Most recently, I really liked the Thirteenth Tale. Have you read the Other Boleyn Sister, that was very interesting and compelling!


message 1: by Triffany (last edited Aug 25, 2016 10:58AM)

Triffany Thanks for the add! I'm in between books right now, which of yours would you recommend?


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