Help Our Children Write the Future!
Our children will write the future. What they write will be largely up to us. Cindy and I have been working on our Children Write the Future site for a really… er, REALLY long time now. Setback after setback, it’s sat in our lab, patiently waiting for the time when it could have the attention [...]
Kidpreneurs – The Best Children’s Book About Money I’ve Ever Seen!
Have you ever heard a song, watched a movie or read something remarkable and thought, “Man, I wish I had thought of that.” Kidpreneurs, by Adam and Matthew Toren is the children’s book I have wanted to write since before I was a writer, except it’s exponentially better than anything I ever would have done. I [...]
Jabberwock Softly
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!” ~Lewis Carroll Sorry. This is my second feisty post in a week. Fortunately for my other sites, and unlike last week’s Kanye rant, I’ll keep this particular bit of self bluster contained to a [...]
Skipping Rope
I love Sean’s Deja Vuesday. They are weekly reminders of moments I might have otherwise forgotten. Today I’m turning back to a post originally on Namas Daisy titled, “Writing With My Least Dominant Hand.” Children do learn as they live, but so do adults. Mia is in a Dual Immersion Spanish program. She is finishing [...]
Stop, Think, Take Action.
Today’s post was written by Cindy (Daisy), a twenty year veteran teacher who has taught on four continents and many of our continental states. She is discussing Angela Maiers and her new book, Classroom Habitudes, a text articulating the endless possibilities laying in wait for our 21st century learners; pondering the fundamentals of a progressive [...]
Have a Nice Day! or Smell You Later.
We all have a dozen or so stories that coalesce to define us. Today I am sharing one such story. Because this tale has a fine oral tradition, I thought it would be nice for me to read it out loud. You can click here to hear it. It is by no means a perfect recording, [...]
Two X’s the First Grade
This Deja Tuesday post on dual immersion was originally written late last summer, before Mia entered first grade. Speaking to my children in Spanish, like the morning cup of coffee or hot water beating on my back, is a small pleasure that polishes each of my days. I exaggerate my accent and send my gestures [...]
Our Education Needs a Revolution
Last week was a lot of fun. Thanks for letting me share my boy. Next Monday, it will be Mia’s turn, but for today and the remainder of this week, I’m turning my eye to education. For the first post in this series, I’m using video as the following five minutes articulate many of my [...]
Leaders Begin With Themselves
“If you touch a rock, you touch the past. If you touch a flower you touch the present. If you touch a child, you touch the future.” ~ Author unknown Today I’m handing the Mic to my best friend and wife. We are teaching a writer’s workshop for fourth graders starting this afternoon, and celebrating [...]
Write on Mia!
Note: This is another one of those posts where I unabashedly fawn over my daughter. I’ll try not to be too sloppy. “To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.” ~Josh Billings Last week was our parent-teacher conference for Mia. As some of you [...]
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Hi, I'm Sean Platt - author, father, and Creative Director at Rev Media Marketing. Writer Dad is my life as it unfolds. This chapter of my journey began two years back when I took a chance on myself by closing a successful business to pursue my dream of writing for a living. It was the craziest, riskiest and most wonderful thing I've ever done. Well, except for becoming a dad.
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