Looping

My mom, Barbara Colton was an Elementary School Teacher. She taught for a number of years before she started having children (I am the first of three). Since it was the 80's, when my youngest sibling (Jason) was old enough to take care of himself after school (let himself into the house, lock the door behind him, find snacks, find the remote), my mom decided to go back to teaching. We would hear daily teaching stories at the dinner table and never once did I think...'That's what I want to do!' The high school I attended, The Wheatley School in Old Westbury, NY , had a special program for social sciences and English. It was called SWS (School Within A School) and gave students the opportunity to choose their learning path AND potentially teach other students. There was a process to teach a 'module' (what the classes were called) and all approvals came from a group of advisor teachers and students. The program was innovative (for the 1980's) and gave me an op...