Susan talks about the Facebook article: IN DENMARK, EMPATHY CLASSES ARE PART OF THE NATIONAL CURRICULUM
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Susan talks about the picture book: ‘Where did Mommy’s Smile Go?’ written by Kim Fluxgold & illustrated by Shawna Smoke, published on Amazon.ca, 2019
- Susan Schwartz
From a title like the one here, what might you expect? Upon reading the front cover page, we see a mom and daughter enjoying a picnic and nature together. Both seem so happy, but as you read further into this powerful and touching picture book, we see that the little girl on the cover is one of a family of three children and mom and dad. Mom seems to be the perfect mom, helping to wipe away 'tears' and 'fears', reading bedtime stories, teaching 'right from wrong', making ‘special treats to eat’, helping with friendships, ‘loyalty and kindness’, encouraging her children to ‘always try and do their very best’, and being a cheerleader at her children’s sports’ events, but then gradually day by day, the mom’s behavior starts to change in a ‘sad and strange’ way....
Susan talks about the redesigned 4th edition - with connections to the 7 CHAKRAS
- Susan Schwartz
Are you wondering how our 4th edtion came to be? It has been an interesting and exciting learning journey! When Mindy and I secured our rights back (upon mutual agreement) from Pearson Canada this past November, 2019, we set about the task of revising our CREATING THE DYNAMIC CLASSROOM as a 4th Edition. Since we had always worked with a big publishing company, we decided this time to go a different route and self-publish. We wanted to make our work very accessible in digital format and in print, to be more readily affordable to all teachers, as well as to reach a wider audience. We explored Amazon and Kindle Direct Publishing and decided to redesign our work as a SERIES of 5 texts featuring the 5 Parts as in our 3rd Edition (2018). We agreed that each Part would become an individual ebook or paperback on Amazon.ca and Amazon.com, and hopefully also worldwide.
