Services I Provide :

Educator/Inservice Lecture.  School Visits. Manuscript Critiques.

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I teach online classes (available to anyone) through the Mississippi Bend Area Education Association. The classes are offered as an online instructor-led course or in a self-paced structure. The classes are entitled: (click title to register)

Picture Books to Augment Your Curriculum and Writing Exercises to Boost Creativity

Creative Writing: Crafting Better Stories While Having Fun.

Social  Emotional Learning: Ways to Incorporate SEL into the K-12 Curriculum

The classes aim to make reading and writing fun for children!

Manuscripts critiques are available. I can help to fine tune your short stories, novels, or picture book manuscripts. I have my Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and would use these skills to help make your writing stronger. Line edits as well as an overall typed page of comments included. 

Need Essay help for a professional application or job – I can help!

Contact me if you are interested in talking more about manuscript critiques or editing services

My goal is to help kids open their imaginations to create fantastic worlds and relatable characters. 

I offer classroom discussions and tutorials on character development, storytelling, and story structure. 

I am a practicing physician with an MFA in creative writing for children. I enjoy engaging students and seeing their eyes light up with new ideas. 

Options for classroom education/presentations include:

1. Using picture books to help with anxiety, diversity issues, combat gender bias, and sexual orientation. This would involve reading well known picture books and looking at them from a different point of view and reviewing how a fun book can also influence the way we treat others.
   
2. Teaching writing craft techniques and structure – Educating young writers on the principles of character development, voice, setting, plot, or theme and how to fine-tune these principles. May involve writing exercises and examples from common picture book or middle grade texts.

Contact me for more school visit information.

Educator based lecture:  Specific discussions on anxiety in children and how teachers/counselors/educators can help students through books. This was the topic of a critical thesis I have researched and presented, and I feel this is an outlet that would be an excellent topic for a teacher in-service. Finding other tools outside of formal counseling to help children in an education environment is essential and needed when anxiety and stress prevails in so many. A formal power point presentation is available to educators to highlight literary options with a medical background to help with other resources.

Contact me if you are interested in setting up an Educator/Inservice Lecture.

At this time I do not have a published book, but that does not mean I don’t have much to offer a classroom of wide-eyed eager children!

I am a practicing physician with an MFA in creative writing for children, and I have a passion to teach children and share anything and everything that I know. I have been a girl scout leader, I’m a mother of two girls, and I am not afraid to clown around in front of a class to get a few laughs.

Options for classroom education/presentations include:

1. Using picture books to help with anxiety, diversity issues, combat gender bias, and sexual orientation. This would involve reading well known picture books and looking at them from a different point of view and reviewing how a fun book can also influence the way we treat others.
   
2. Teaching writing craft techniques and structure – Educating young writers on the principles of character development, voice, setting, plot, or theme and how to fine-tune these principles. May involve writing exercises and examples from common picture book or middle grade texts.
   
3. Educator based lecture:  Specific discussions on anxiety in children and how teachers/counselors/educators can help students through books. This was the topic of a critical thesis I have researched and presented, and I feel this is an outlet that would be an excellent topic for a teacher in-service. Finding other tools outside of formal counseling to help children in an education environment is essential and needed when anxiety and stress prevails in so many. A formal power point presentation is available to educators to highlight literary options with a medical background to help with other resources.