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The First Steps Are the Hardest

by Barbara Hartsook on March 26, 2009 · 17 comments

We never see backstage before a performance, do we? We don’t know what competitors, speakers, musicians go through as the clock ticks toward performance time. How do they prepare those last few seconds?
Kali* is a dancer — competing for almost two years in ballet, lyrical, jazz, hip-hop, and acrobatics. The painting below is of her [...]

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Life-Learning, from a Teacher’s Heart and Pen…

by Barbara Hartsook on September 13, 2008 · 9 comments

One teacher, the kind of teacher we hope our kids and their kids can have at least once in their classrooms, writes a blog called Teacher Time.
She paints such wonderful stories with her words, her poetry. Stories that move in the mind. Like paintings that trigger a memory, we can say Yes! I’ve been there! [...]

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