[The Stage is on Fire] is a page-turner in which, much like life, there are no easy answers and yet each step of the journey yields insight and hope. This work of heart must not be missed!
Katie Steedly’s first-person piece [The Unspeakable Gift] is a riveting retelling of her participation in a National Institutes of Health study that aided her quest to come to grips with her life of living with a rare genetic disorder. Her writing is superb.
In recognition of receiving the Dateline Award for the Washingtonian Magazine essay, The Unspeakable Gift.
I thank you … It is the authenticity of your “class notes”; and it is the delicacy and skill with which you present the nuances of classroom life and the actuality of your students’ and fellow teachers’ lives.
Debora B. Wisneski, PhD, is an associate professor and the John T. Langan Professor in Early Childhood Education in the Teacher Education Department at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. She is the past president of the Association for Childhood Education International. She has taught for over twenty years at the preschool, kindergarten, and higher education levels. Wisneski earned her BSEd and MEd in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in early childhood education at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and earned her doctorate at the University of Texas-Austin in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in early childhood education. She has several publications in the area of play and early childhood education scholarship.
Wisneski loves spending time bike riding, playing games, hosting dinner parties and gardening with her family: husband Aron, and sons Henry, and William. She is grateful for her family and friends who support her, listen to her, care for her, forgive her, and laugh with her. “Baba Nam Kevalam(The Beloved–love- is all around.)”
