Language Arts can be a challenging subject to teach.  Too often, it is taught with the goal of checking off boxes and teaching terms and forms rather than with the goal of giving our kids a voice.  Kimberley Bredberg and Clare Bonn from Blackbird and Company have their priorities straight. Be sure to check out this episode to find out more!

BIOGRAPHIES

Kim Bredberg has been an advocate for reform in education for nearly three decades. She is a founding partner of Blackbird & Company Educational Press and author of Habits of Being: Artifacts from the Classroom Guild. Her writing and visual art students have won numerous awards and been recognized on the regional and national levels by the Scholastic Alliance for Arts & Writing. They have been published in international writing journals. Kim has been recognized nationally for her role as an arts and writing mentor. The California resident, mother of four, long ago received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara in biological psychology and fine art, graduate training in clinical art therapy from Loyola Marymount University, and received her Master of Fine Arts in writing from Antioch University.

Clare Bonn graduated from Cal State Long Beach with a BA in Sociology. She has worked for 22 years with school-age children in childcare, recreational classes, and classroom learning. She taught at Waterhouse Guild for 3 years utilizing Blackbird & Company materials. She believes every child’s voice should be heard, unique gifts valued, and learning differences embraced. Clare has three differently-abled children who all learned to tap into their giftedness through writing using Blackbird & Company curriculum. You can find Clare most of the time in her garden or reading a good book.

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Clare & Kimberly are speakers at the Realizing Genius Online Conference.  Their presentation is on “Ideas are Genius.”  SIGN UP HERE