Teacher, writer, and lifelong lover of words. Books for reflection and practice, poems, stories for kids, workbooks for the classroom, and now cards and shirts for fellow word nerds.
Workbooks and printable packets from Bloomin' Genius Tutoring, made by a classroom teacher for grades 1–7.
Help your child with division, decimals, fractions, and negative numbers, even if it's been years. Every lesson starts with a picture, and there's a free video for each one at bloomingeniustutoring.com/math.
Buy on Amazon180 days of Latin for curious kids: one page a day with spiral review, classical pronunciation, and a full answer key. No Latin needed for grown-ups.
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180 daily pages on prefixes, suffixes, and Latin and Greek roots.
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180 daily grammar pages, from nouns and verbs to prepositions and conjunctions.
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Ancient wisdom, applied to everyday work and practice.
A modern reading of the Tao Te Ching for educators: a guide to slowing down, staying present, and remembering why you teach.
Buy on AmazonA reflection journal for Ba Duan Jin practice, with a meditation and brush symbol for each of the eight movements.
Coming soonThe Tao Te Ching read through the lens of martial practice.
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A collection of poems.
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When a giant wheel of cheese arrives at Abuela's house, Luna and Abuela spend fifteen days turning it into every kind of quesadilla imaginable. A warm, funny story about family, creativity in the kitchen, and sharing good food together.
Coming nextOwen can't sleep, so his big sister June teaches him the rules of the Blanket Shield. Then a thunderstorm rolls in.
Coming soonDavid McDonald, M.Ed., has been teaching since 2006. Alongside the classroom, he writes books that bring the Tao Te Ching into everyday practice, poetry, and stories for young readers, and designs cards and shirts for people who love language as much as he does. He also practices martial arts.