Thank you to the first crew to come to my benefit Zumba classes – Lori, Barb, Erin, Melissa, Hannah, Jason, Andy, Abby, Vicky, Jean, and Catie – together you gave our sixth girl a chance at reaching her dreams. The students in my after-school Zumba club wanted to share in creating this Dance Thank You. … Continue reading
Thanks to Erika, Stacey, Vanessa, Sarah and Erin for sponsoring our fourth girl. A small gesture to us is life changing for her. Keep on paying it forward, and we’ll keep dancing on. If you’d like to get your own dance video, go to roomtoread.kintera.org/general/30by30 and pay it forward. Abrazos! Continue reading
1987: Jeannie and Terese Finan. I used to think I had a pet guinea pig growing up. Its name was Cinnamon, and it had light brown and white fur. My favorite part about having a guinea pig was watching it’s mouth and nose wiggle as it sniffed around the room and drank water from the … Continue reading
We are over 10% of the way there! Looking forward to more dancing in my future. Every girl we send to school (in other words – every $250 we raise), I’ll brush up my dance moves and my video skills and send a dance thank you your way. Salsa? Bollywood? Twerking? The Electric Slide? Just … Continue reading
As promised, I percolated in honor of the second scholarship raised. Every time we raise $250, enough to pay for one year of a girl in Vietnam’s education, I will send out my gratitude – via a dance thank you. Thank you note cards are so 2012. Dance thank you’s are where it’s at. Undoubtedly … Continue reading
Could my timing be any better? I launched my project on International Literacy Day (ILD), sponsored by the International Reading Association. IRA are the helpful folks that taught me a bit about teaching Reading via their conference when I was a newbie teacher in Kent County (more on that later…just know I in my first … Continue reading
I’ve got the ball rolling with the first donation, enough for school for one girl for a year! Anyone dare to match it? (insert out of tune rendition of “One is the loneliest number…”) Blowing out the candle on my first birthday, next to my sister Mary, singing away. Continue reading
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