Recent content by Kip Curtis

I have been working with underachieving K-5 students on learning their science, mathematics, language arts, and visual arts lessons through a schoolyard educational garden. We grow food while we learn. And we get to learn food literacy at the same time that we are enhancing our curriculum...

The best history teacher I ever had -- besides my graduate advisor who I admire above all historians -- was my freshmen high school teacher, Mrs. Whipple. She was a diminutive sixty or seventy year old women when I took her class. She had taught most students' parents and some students'...