On this inspiring episode of The Schoolyard Podcast, host Nancy Chung spoke with Shannon Olsen, a beloved kids’s ebook writer and former second-grade instructor. Shannon shared her journey from educating to changing into a full-time writer, highlighting her ardour for creating academic assets and kids’s books that foster a way of household and collaboration within the classroom.
Shannon mentioned her common books, together with her best-selling Our Class is a Household and her newest, Collaboration Station, which she wrote throughout the difficult instances of distance studying. These books reinforce the significance of neighborhood and teamwork amongst college students whereas transitioning again to in-person studying.
You’ll hear insights from Shannon on how her private experiences and challenges as a instructor impressed her books. She shares touching tales about how her function as an writer has positively impacted her personal kids and college students throughout the nation.
For aspiring authors, Shannon additionally presents sensible recommendation on how one can get began with writing and publishing their very own books.
Tag, You’re It!
The episode wrapped up with our common phase referred to as “Tag Your It,” the place Shannon and Nancy selected the ebook characters they’d prefer to be for a day. Hear in to listen to their solutions!
For extra academic assets and to find out about Shannon’s writer visits and publishing consultations, go to her web site at www.lifebetweensummers.com.
To buy her best-selling books, go to her web site at https://lifebetweensummers.com/store/.
To view her TPT web page, go to https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Retailer/Life-Between-Summers.
Be a part of us subsequent time on The Schoolyard Podcast, the place we proceed to discover the magic of studying and the impactful tales of educators.
Shannon Olsen
Shannon Olsen creates assets for elementary faculty lecturers, together with image books. She is the writer of #1 best-selling books, together with Our Class is a Household and each books within the sequence A Letter From Your Trainer. The themes are targeted on constructing class neighborhood and constructive relationships within the classroom.
A number of of her books have reached the Amazon Prime 20 Charts for all books offered. Her first ebook, Our Class is a Household, earned the #1 spot on Writer’s Weekly for Prime Youngsters’s Image Books. In August 2020, Amazon chosen the ebook cowl to be featured on their 83-foot billboard in entrance of Penn Station in New York Metropolis.
Previous to changing into an writer, Shannon earned her BA in English and MA in Instructing from the College of California Irvine. With fifteen years of classroom expertise as a second-grade instructor, she creates and sells downloadable assets for elementary lecturers via Life Between Summers LLC. Her academic assets can be found via the Lecturers Pay Lecturers web site and her on-line store at lifebetweensummers.com.
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