Author: Christina M. Dennis
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Creating With AI: An Honest Look Behind the Finished Page
A page can look almost finished until it’s not. A suspicious ankle, a missing cat paw, and then everything starts looking wrong and there goes your confidence. I am slowly but surely working through the illustrations for my latest (and never-ending) children’s book. I started Cluck Cluck Chaos (tentative title) two years ago. My little…
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AI Is Not the Problem. It Is Showing Us the Problem.
Over coffee this morning, I read Timothy Papandreou’s Forbes article, The Applied AI Reset: Rebuilding How We Live and Work, and one section really caught my attention: Because corporate structures, hierarchies and workplaces have failed to evolve alongside this shift, the resulting organizational tension and anxiety is now conveniently and inaccurately blamed on AI. AI…
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Echolalia and Autism
A micro-blog for teachers and families A child says, “Time to go,” in the middle of centers. It would be easy to hear the repetition, decide it does not fit the moment, and redirect the child back to the blocks. But what if it does fit the moment? There may be a slew of possibilities…
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The New School Year Is Here
And I am ready for it. Welcome back to my little corner of the creatorverse. A new school year has a strange way of making teachers feel wildly capable and completely unprepared at the exact same time. I know what I want my classroom to feel like. All are welcome here. Our classroom is a…
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West Virginia Students Didn’t Just Disappear
They made other choices. Public schools should be asking why. Editor’s note: I received this piece from a homeschool content creator who asked to remain anonymous. After reviewing the enrollment figures and checking the linked sources, I chose to publish it. This is not a judgment of public school, homeschooling, or any other educational choice.…
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How Can I Help My Child Feel Ready for the Next Grade?
Brain Maker Summer Math Transition Guides I created these “between grade” Summer Math Transition Guides to support both teachers and families as children move from one grade level to the next. The standards and skill expectations were pulled from several states and then generalized, so these guides are not tied to one specific state. The…
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The Homework Conundrum
Homework in elementary school is one of those “normal” practices we rarely stop to interrogate. It has been around forever. Families expect it. Schools defend it. And kids drag it home in crumpled folders after a full day of doing their best to hold it together. Lately I have been seeing the homework debate flare…
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This Season, Choose Love
The holidays have a way of magnifying everything. Love feels bigger, joy feels louder, loneliness can feel sharper, and our differences, the ones we usually ignore for the sake of our own sanity, are suddenly highlighted and magnified because of tradition. ‘And by golly, this is how we do it because this is how great-granddaddy…
