The Reading Teacher

How a lifelong friend helped instill a lifelong love.

Jewell Stoddard had a green thumb. A gardener extraordinaire, she and husband Ted created a woodland glade behind their home in suburban Maryland.

Jewell and Ted, along with sons Philip and Andrew, became our lifelong family friends when Phil and my brother Don were in nursery school together. My mother taught first grade at the school; later, Jewell taught third. Experiential learning, with nature as lead teacher, was part of the curriculum at the eponymously named Green Acres School. Read more…https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/the-reading-teacher