Writes

Sometimes I do this for real.

Educational & Instructional Writing

Borrowing AVID inquiry: How to get to the essential question in the English classroom
Masters thesis and teacher research from Boise State University, 2009
http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/english_gradproj/1

Contributed instructional materials to Get It Done: Writing and Analyzing Informational Texts to Make Things Happen
by Jeff Wilhelm, Jim Fredricksen, and Michael Smith, 2012
Get It Done: Writing and Analyzing Informational Texts to Make Things Happen

Travel Writing

Reveling in playful Boise
Published in Lonely Planet online, 2018
Reveling in playful Boise

Learning as you go: American family adventures
Published in Lonely Planet online, 2018
Learning as you go: American family adventures

How to fit travel into a busy family schedule
Published in Lonely Planet online, 2019
How to fit travel into a busy family schedule

Wild times: outdoor adventures your family’s way
Published in Lonely Planet online, 2019
Wild times: outdoor adventures your family’s way

Contributed Idaho for Lonely Planet Trade & Reference book, Unique States of America, published Fall 2019
Unique States of America

Contributed Idaho Centennial Trail and Pacific Northwest Trail for Lonely Planet Trade & Reference book, National Trails (forthcoming Spring, 2020)

Personal Essays & Poetry

School uniforms
Published in South Coast Today in 1999 when I was a senior in high school (ha!). I see threads of my current philosophy of education.

A prismatic view of a USWNT World Cup win
Published in Idaho Press Tribune and Idaho Statesman, 2019

Our fish is responsibly caught from sustainable sources.

Ha. Evidence I used a restaurant menu template to create this page. I could delete it, but, nah. I like this little nugget of surprise at the bottom for all you deep-scrollers.